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discipline

noun
/ˈdɪsɪplɪn/UK/ˈdɪsəplɪn/US/ɖɪˈsɪplɪn/

Etymology

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”).

  1. derived from *dek-✻
  2. derived from disciplina
  3. derived from descipline

Definitions

  1. A controlled behaviour

    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. 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.

  3. To train someone by instruction and practice.

  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. To teach someone to obey authority.

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

    3. To impose order on someone.

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Derived

academic discipline, antidiscipline, camouflage discipline, counterdiscipline, disciplinability, disciplineless, discipline-specific, disciplinism, disciplinist, home discipline, indiscipline, interdiscipline, market discipline, metadiscipline, multidiscipline, nondiscipline, petticoat discipline, pseudo-discipline, pseudodiscipline, self-discipline, subdiscipline, superdiscipline, time discipline, transdisciplinarian, undiscipline, overdiscipline, rediscipline

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at discipline. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at discipline. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at discipline

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA