Dictionary Entry
discipline
discipline is a 10-letter English word with 20 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The treatment suited to a disciple or learner; education; development of the faculties by instruction and exercise; training, whether physical, mental, or moral. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 19 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
10 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 19 · 20 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
The treatment suited to a disciple or learner; education; development of the faculties by instruction and exercise; training, whether physical, mental, or moral.
- 2noun
Training to act in accordance with established rules; accustoming to systematic and regular action; drill.
- 3noun
Subjection to rule; submissiveness to order and control; habit of obedience.
- 4noun
Severe training, corrective of faults; instruction by means of misfortune, suffering, punishment, etc.
- 5noun
Correction; chastisement; punishment inflicted by way of correction and training.
- 6noun
The subject matter of instruction; a branch of knowledge.
- 7noun
The enforcement of methods of correction against one guilty of ecclesiastical offenses; reformatory or penal action toward a church member.
- 8noun
Self-inflicted and voluntary corporal punishment, as penance, or otherwise; specifically, a penitential scourge.
- 9noun
A system of essential rules and duties; as, the Romish or Anglican discipline.
- 10transitive verb
To educate; to develop by instruction and exercise; to train.
- 11transitive verb
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.
- 12transitive verb
To improve by corrective and penal methods; to chastise; to correct.
- 13transitive verb
To inflict ecclesiastical censures and penalties upon.
- 14noun
training to improve strength or self-control
- 15noun
the act of punishing
"the offenders deserved the harsh discipline they received"
Synonyms
- 16noun
the trait of being well behaved
"he insisted on discipline among the troops"
- 17noun
a system of rules of conduct or method of practice
"he quickly learned the discipline of prison routine"
"for such a plan to work requires discipline"
- 18noun
a branch of knowledge
"in what discipline is his doctorate?"
"teachers should be well trained in their subject"
- 19verb
punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience
"The teacher disciplined the pupils rather frequently"
Synonyms
- 20verb
develop (children's) behavior by instruction and practice; especially to teach self-control
"Parents must discipline their children"
"Is this dog trained?"
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