discipline
part of speech
noun (discipline; a discipline, disciplines); verb (discipline, disciplines, disciplined, disciplining)
meaning for a pupil
1) Discipline is following rules and controlling how you act, often taught by parents or teachers. tree →
2) Self-discipline: making yourself do what you should, like practising every day. tree →
3) To discipline someone is to punish them for breaking rules. tree →
4) (formal) A subject or field of study, such as maths or biology. tree →
sense in the lessons
Used in school (classroom discipline), sport (training discipline) and at home. Phrases: «keep discipline», «lack discipline», «self-discipline», «discipline yourself». In formal writing «scientific disciplines» means different sciences.
examples
- The coach said discipline is the key to winning. tree →
- Learning piano takes a lot of discipline. tree →
- The school has strict discipline. tree →
- Her parents disciplined her for lying. tree →
- Chemistry and physics are two scientific disciplines. tree →
- It takes self-discipline to do homework before games. tree →
- The soldiers marched with perfect discipline. tree →
- The pressure of regularity and discipline here stamped the jewel, which in the future the world so well knew. tree →
note
As «following rules» it is uncountable; as «a field of study» it is countable (disciplines). Adjective: disciplined (a disciplined player). Spelling trap: «sc» in disci-pline.
In the corpora
- "Behaviour management" is jargon for discipline and punishment.
- Athens loved debate, trade, art and its navy; Sparta loved discipline, obedience and its army.
- To receive the discipline of wisdom, justice, and right, and equity;
- The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge; but the foolish despise wisdom and discipline.
- He openeth also their ear to discipline, and commandeth that they return from iniquity.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «discipline» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.