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discipline

SubstantivVerbhäufig in Dialogen

  • Vereinigtes Königreich//ˈdɪsɪplɪn//
  • Vereinigte Staaten//ˈdɪsəplɪn//
  • Vereinigte Staaten/[ˈd̥ɪsɪ̽plɪ̈n]/
  • //ɖɪˈsɪplɪn//

A controlled behaviour; self-control.

Substantiv

  1. 1

    A controlled behaviour; self-control.

    The most perfect, who have their passions in the best discipline, are yet obliged to be constantly on their guard.

  2. 2

    A controlled behaviour; self-control. An enforced compliance or control.

    The masters looked unusually stern, but it was the sternness of thought rather than of discipline.

  3. 3

    A controlled behaviour; self-control. A systematic method of obtaining obedience.

    Discipline aims at the removal of bad habits and the substitution of good ones, especially those of order, regularity, and obedience.

    Endure hardship as discipline; God is treating you as his children. For what children are not disciplined by their father?

  4. 4

    A controlled behaviour; self-control. A state of order based on submission to authority.

    Their wildness lose, and, quitting nature's part, / Obey the rules and discipline of art.

  5. 5

    A controlled behaviour; self-control. A set of rules regulating behaviour.

  6. 6

    A controlled behaviour; self-control. A punishment to train or maintain control.

    giving her the discipline of the strap

  7. 7

    A controlled behaviour; self-control. A punishment to train or maintain control. A whip used for self-flagellation.

    All she had done was give Teena a cilice, a barbed metal chain she was to tie around her thigh for two hours every day, and a discipline, a rope whip with knotted ends she was to use on her back when she prayed the Hail Mary.

  8. 8

    A controlled behaviour; self-control. A punishment to train or maintain control. A flagellation as a means of obtaining sexual gratification.

  9. 9

    A specific branch of knowledge, learning, or practice.

    Near-synonyms: specialty, speciality, specialism

    academic disciplines

    Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art.

    This mathematical discipline, by the help of geometrical principles, doth teach to contrive several weights and powers unto motion or rest.

  10. 10

    A specific branch of knowledge, learning, or practice. A category in which a certain art, sport or other activity belongs.

Herkunft

From Middle English [Term?], from Anglo-Norman, from Old French descipline, from Latin disciplina (“instruction”), from discipulus (“pupil”), influenced by disco (“to learn”), from Proto-Indo-European *dek- (“(cause to) accept”).

Verb

  1. 1

    To train someone by instruction and practice.

  2. 2

    To teach someone to obey authority.

  3. 3

    To punish someone in order to (re)gain control.

  4. 4

    To impose order on someone.

Formen

Plural
disciplines
Präteritum
disciplined
Partizip II
disciplined
Partizip I
disciplining
3. Person Singular
disciplines
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