discipline

معنی کلمه discipline

معنی واژه discipline

n. - The treatment suited to a disciple or learner; education; development of the faculties by instruction and exercise; training, whether physical, mental, or moral.
n. - Training to act in accordance with established rules; accustoming to systematic and regular action; drill.
n. - Subjection to rule; submissiveness to order and control; habit of obedience.
n. - Severe training, corrective of faults; instruction by means of misfortune, suffering, punishment, etc.
n. - Correction; chastisement; punishment inflicted by way of correction and training.
n. - The subject matter of instruction; a branch of knowledge.
n. - The enforcement of methods of correction against one guilty of ecclesiastical offenses; reformatory or penal action toward a church member.
n. - Self-inflicted and voluntary corporal punishment, as penance, or otherwise; specifically, a penitential scourge.
n. - A system of essential rules and duties; as, the Romish or Anglican discipline.
v. t. - To educate; to develop by instruction and exercise; to train.
v. t. - 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.
v. t. - To improve by corrective and penal methods; to chastise; to correct.
v. t. - To inflict ecclesiastical censures and penalties upon.