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discipline [ disc·i·pline ]
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1. The practice of training people to obey rules or a code of behaviour, using punishment to correct disobedience.
The rules of discipline were not casually administered.
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2. The controlled behaviour resulting from such training.
he was able to maintain discipline among his men
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3. Activity that provides mental or physical training.
Kung fu is a discipline open to old and young
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4. A system of rules of conduct.
he doesn't have to submit to normal disciplines
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5. A branch of knowledge, typically one studied in higher education.
sociology is a fairly new discipline
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1. Train (someone) to obey rules or a code of behaviour, using punishment to correct disobedience.
many parents have been afraid to discipline their children
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2. Punish or rebuke formally for an offence.
If I am breaking union rules, let them discipline me.
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3. (discipline oneself to do something) Train oneself to do something in a controlled and habitual way.
Thirdly, we have to discipline ourselves to begin to train.
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1. Middle English (in the sense ‘mortification by scourging oneself’): via Old French from Latin disciplina ‘instruction, knowledge’, from discipulus (see disciple).
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