| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. To train, school, educate or coach.[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. Present participle conjugation of the verb discipline.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (discipline) | 1. Develop (children's) behavior by instruction and practice; especially to teach self-control; "Parents must discipline their children".[Wordnet]. 2. Punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience; "The teacher disciplined the pupils rather frequently".[Wordnet]. 3. Train by instruction and practice; especially to teach self-control; "Parents must discipline their children"; "Is this dog trained?".[Wordnet]. 4. To educate; to develop by instruction and exercise; to train.[Websters]. 5. To accustom to regular and systematic action; to bring under control so as to act systematically; to train to act together under orders; to teach subordination to; to form a habit of obedience in; to drill.[Websters]. 6. To improve by corrective and penal methods; to chastise; to correct.[Websters]. 7. To inflict ecclesiastical censures and penalties upon.[Websters]. 8. Base verb from the following inflections: disciplining, disciplined, disciplines, discipliner, discipliners, discipliningly and disciplinedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adjective | 1. Being ruling or governing.
[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. Being branching. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. Being guiding. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. Being cultural or cultured. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. Being commanding.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "DISCIPLINING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
Specialty Definition: DISCIPLINING
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Verb] Instructing; educating; subjecting to order and subordination; correcting; chastising; admonishing; punishing.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | [Verb] Present participle of discipline. (references) | ||
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Common Expressions: discipline
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Assertive discipline | Assertive discipline is an approach to classroom managagement developed by Lee and Marlene Canter. It involves a high level of teacher control in the class. It is also called the "take-control" approach to teaching, as the teacher controls their classroom in a firm but positive manner. The approach maintains that teachers must establish rules and directions that clearly define the limits of acceptable and unacceptable student behavior, teach these rules and directions, and ask for assistance from parents and/or administrators when support is needed in handling the behavior of students. (references) | ||
| Child discipline | Methods of child discipline vary widely between cultures and have in recent times changed considerably in many of them. (references) | ||
| Code of Service Discipline | CF. It is found in Part III of the National Defence Act. (references) | ||
| Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments | The Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments (Congregatio de Cultu Divino et Disciplina Sacramentorum) is the congregation of the Roman Curia that oversees liturgical observance in the Catholic Church. (references) | ||
| Discipline (BDSM) | The use of rules and punishment to control overt behaviour. (references) | ||
| Discipline (disambiguation) | Discipline can refer to one of the following. (references) | ||
| Discipline Inspection Commission of the Communist Party of China | The Discipline Inspection Commission of the Communist Party of China or CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (中共中央纪律检查委员会; often abbreviated to 纪委) is the government body within the People's Republic of China charged with rooting out corruption and malfeasance among Communist Party of China cadres. (references) | ||
| Discipline question | The discipline question is an open-ended question that appears on many American college applications. In addition to transcripts, recommendations, and college entrance exams, students are expected, on applications that present this question to submit descriptions of any disciplinary incidents throughout their high school career. (references) | ||
| Eucharistic discipline | Eucharistic discipline is the term applied to the regulations and practices associated with an individual preparing for the reception of the Eucharist. Different traditions require varying degrees of preparation, which may include a period of fasting, prayer, repentance, and confession. As a general rule, the stronger the belief that the bread and wine of the Eucharist become the Body and Blood of Jesus (see Transubstantiation and Real Presence), the stricter the discipline. (references) | ||
| Fiscal discipline | Fiscal discipline refers to a government that has a established a good economy. It simply means that a country's government has already reached a stable economy. (references) | ||
| Humanistic discipline | Studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills). Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Magic discipline | A magical discipline, also known as a school of magic, is a group of spells or magical rituals that are closely linked, typically by both function and mechanics. They may be linked by an element, such as fire, or by a general principle, such as conjuration. (references) | ||
| Message Discipline | Message discipline is the concept that politicians and other public policy advocates should talk about what is relevant to achieve their aims, and not allow themselves to be sidetracked either by their own random thoughts or the random questions of media or citizens. When a politician repeats the same thing over and over, or uses a question on one subject as a launching pad to talk about a different subject, he or she is said to be exercising message discipline. (references) | ||
| Non-violent child discipline | There are many effective non-violent methods of child discipline available to parents when discipline is necessary. While they are mainly advocated by many experts in child development and by opponents of spanking or other forms of corporal punishment of children, they are also often utilized by parents who spank as well. These alternatives to spanking are not complicated, but they do require parents to be willing and able to give more time and thought to discipline, to exercise self-control, to be considerably imaginative, and to be quick-thinking. (references) | ||
| Progressive Discipline | Progressive Discipline is a system of discipline where the penalties increase upon repeat occurrences. (references) | ||
| Scheduling discipline | Scheduling disciplines are algorithms of distributing resources among parties which simultaneously and asynchronously request them. Scheduling disciplines are used in routers (to handle packet traffic) as well as in operating systems (to share CPU time among threads and processes). (references) | ||
| School discipline | School discipline is a form of discipline found in schools. (references) | ||
| Scientific discipline | A particular branch of scientific knowledge. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Time discipline | In sociology and anthropology, time discipline is the general name given to social and economic rules, conventions, customs, and expectations governing the measurement of time, the social currency and awareness of time measurements, and people's expectations concerning the observance of these customs by others. (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: discipline
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Concerted discipline | Finance | Temporary agreement for a concerted discipline between the European Economic Community and the Republic of Finland concerning reciprocal trade in cheese [VE1]. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Employee Discipline | Health | Regulations or conditions imposed on employees by management in order to correct or prevent behaviors which are counterproductive to the organization. (references) | |
| Intelligence discipline | Military | (DOD) A well defined area of intelligence collection, processing, exploitation, and reporting using a specific category of technical or human resources. There are seven major disciplines: human intelligence, imagery intelligence, measurement and signature intelligence, signals intelligence (communications intelligence, electronic intelligence, and foreign instrumentation signals intelligence), open-source intelligence, technical intelligence, and counterintelligence. See also counterintelligence; human intelligence; imagery intelligence; intelligence; measurement and signature intelligence; open-source intelligence; signals intelligence; technical intelligence. (references) | |
| Pre-emptive discipline | Statistics | A form of priority queueing whereby the arrival of an element of higher priority can actually displace the lower priority element actually in the service channel. When this displaced item returns to service the system must distinguish between'resumption'at point of break or'repeat'which ignores the earlier partial service. Source: European Union. (references) | |
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