discipline

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim 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. isim An enforced compliance or control.

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

3. isim 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.”

4. isim 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. isim A set of rules regulating behaviour.
6. isim A punishment to train or maintain control.

   “giving her the discipline of the strap”

7. isim 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. isim A flagellation as a means of obtaining sexual gratification.
9. isim A specific branch of knowledge, learning, or practice.

   “academic disciplines”

10. isim A category in which a certain art, sport or other activity belongs.
11. fiil To train someone by instruction and practice.
12. fiil To teach someone to obey authority.
13. fiil To punish someone in order to (re)gain control.
14. fiil To impose order on someone.