What's the difference between discipline and indiscipline?

Discipline


Definition:

  • (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.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They had learned through hard experience what Frederick Douglass once taught -- that freedom is not given, it must be won, through struggle and discipline, persistence and faith.
  • (2) As calls grew to establish why nobody stepped in to save Daniel, it was also revealed that the boy's headteacher – who saw him scavenging for scraps – has not been disciplined and has been put in charge of a bigger school.
  • (3) and (4) Compared to the instruction provided by instructors from other medical and academic disciplines, do paediatric residents perceive differences in the teaching efficacy and clinical relevance of instruction provided by paediatricians?
  • (4) The decrease of the A.L.O.S., the extra-regional recruitment and the shift of in-patient care toward day care show the development of specialization of this discipline.
  • (5) Paul Doyle Kick-off Sunday midday Venue St Mary’s Stadium Last season Southampton 2 Leicester City 2 Live Sky Sports 1 Referee Michael Oliver This season G 18, Y 60, R 1, 3.44 cards per game Odds H 5-6 A 4-1 D 5-2 Southampton Subs from Taylor, Martina, Stephens, Davis, Rodriguez, Sims, Ward-Prowse Doubtful Bertrand, Davis, Van Dijk (all match fitness) Injured Boufal (knee, Jan), Hesketh (ankle, Feb), Targett (hamstring, Feb), Austin (shoulder, Mar), Pied (knee, Jun), Gardos (knee, unknown) Suspended None Form DWLLLL Discipline Y37 R2 Leading scorer Austin 6 Leicester City Subs from Zieler, Hamer, Wasilewski, Gray, Fuchs, James, Okazaki, Hernández, Kapustka, King Doubtful None Injured None Suspended None Unavailable Amartey, Mahrez, Slimani (Africa Cup of Nations) Form LDLWDL Discipline Y44 R1 Leading scorers Slimani, Vardy 5
  • (6) But employers who have followed a fair procedure may have the right to discipline or finally dismiss any smoker who refuses to accept the new rules.
  • (7) And what did you have to do to get fired for Libor fiddling, rather than simply disciplined?
  • (8) They include comprehensiveness of participation and of areas for review (the review committee should represent all disciplines and programs, and should be concerned with any aspect of center functioning), a problem-review approach in which subcommittees carry out documented studies of issues or problems, and specific provision for feedback and implementation of the results.
  • (9) This means the work of the giant but highly disciplined RSS, as well as smaller fringe groups such as the Bajrang Dal, can be critical.
  • (10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Bill Shorten backs prospect of Indigenous treaty to ‘move beyond constitutional recognition’ At a press conference, Turnbull rebuked Shorten for his lack of “discipline” on Q&A, which is, after all, the home of reasoned and reasonable political discourse.
  • (11) His teams are always hard to beat, tactically disciplined and, most importantly, successful.
  • (12) Recent theoretical developments in health psychology and allied disciplines on coping behaviour and social support should be integrated into biomedical models of the aetiology, pathogenesis and clinical course of malignant neoplasia.
  • (13) Would the Greek crisis have been avoided if Europe had stuck to fiscal discipline?
  • (14) If Abbott changes his formulation, he could risk an outbreak of ill-discipline within his own ranks, because these days the conservatives are more inclined to public outbreaks off-script than the moderates.
  • (15) Other findings showed highly satisfactory to above average performance of graduates whether based on residency supervisors' evaluations or self-evaluations and higher ratings for the graduates who selected surgery residency programs than for those pursuing other disciplines.
  • (16) Under Xi some of the party’s most powerful figures have been humiliated and jailed as part of a high-profile anti-corruption campaign that has seen hundreds of thousands of party officials disciplined across the country.
  • (17) Before bids being lodged, sources had indicated that Sky was not prepared to make a knockout bid to snatch back the rights from BT, which has justified the expense to customers and shareholders as “financially disciplined”.
  • (18) Our discussion has dealt with the nature of our field as a science and also as a discipline, the nature of the training for it, the nature of its research, and the nature and scope of its professional practice.
  • (19) This allows the advantages of multidisciplinary training to be retained, despite earlier specialization, since the subjects studied need not necessarily be restricted to the traditional pathology disciplines.
  • (20) In order to maximize the prognosis, it is necessary to understand the patient, to make a thorough diagnosis, to coordinate the restoration with the other disciplines of dentistry, and to be knowledgeable of the spectrum of treatment modalities available.

Indiscipline


Definition:

  • (n.) Want of discipline or instruction.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They ended up exceeding that margin comfortably, surging to a 14-0 lead inside the first 19 minutes and then withstanding the inevitable Samoan fightback, with the Wigan wing Pat Richards kicking four penalties to punish their growing indiscipline.
  • (2) Describing the moment McKellen knocked on his dressing room door he said: “I ushered him in nervously, expecting notes for my poor performance or indiscipline – I was a foolish, naughty young actor.
  • (3) In the early 1990s the narrative was that John Major's government was collapsing amid sleaze, economic incompetence, indiscipline and deep divisions over Europe.
  • (4) Such a trivial act of indiscipline, lawyers fear, could in future put children at risk of removal.
  • (5) The suspicion is that the striker will be greeted in his homeland as a returning hero rather than a pariah whose latest spasm of indiscipline has most likely wrecked Uruguay’s chances at this World Cup .
  • (6) The trio's indiscipline follows Moyes having to sanction Chris Smalling for a similar indiscretion at the end of last month.
  • (7) I will talk to the board and the players, I’m angry about what happened.” In addition to indiscipline, Southampton were undone here by wayward finishing.
  • (8) Birbalsingh, who became a cause célèbre in Conservative ranks after she criticised the indiscipline in state schools during a speech at the Tory conference in 2010, insists that her school will give parents the choice to send their children to an institution where the focus will be on traditional subjects.
  • (9) This web of lies, deceit and indiscipline, and by police officers, led to Mr Mitchell and his family being subjected to an extremely unpleasant, indeed vitriolic, press campaign and a good deal of hostility from the public who believed what they had read in the press.
  • (10) Atlético had two players sent off when they lost against the Catalan side in La Liga and were again punished for indiscipline.
  • (11) Further evidence that Moyes has struggled for control over his players came in two episodes of indiscipline from Chris Smalling.
  • (12) He waged an authoritarian "war against indiscipline", particularly against corruption.
  • (13) Once again Slaven Bilic found himself lamenting his players’ inability to do the basics properly and, while all four of Bournemouth’s goals were down to individual errors, West Ham United’s second consecutive home defeat was the direct result of the kind of indiscipline and collective incompetence that was rarely seen under Sam Allardyce.
  • (14) Indiscipline, heightened by personal rivalries, created a string of difficulties for the party and its leader.
  • (15) In his opening statement, James Price QC, for Mitchell, said the MP for Sutton Coldfield and his family had been subjected to an extended and vitriolic press campaign as a result of a “web of lies, deceit and indiscipline” by police officers.
  • (16) "One of our compatriots met his untimely death and put to risk others across borders because of indiscipline and disrespect for the advice which had been given by health workers," Liberian president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf said during the country's independence day celebrations on Saturday.
  • (17) Yet the old togetherness is only visible in short bursts these days and the second Mourinho era is in danger of ending in bitter acrimony after Chelsea lurched deeper into crisis with a performance that reeked of indiscipline on and off the pitch at Upton Park.
  • (18) I ushered him in nervously, expecting notes for my poor performance or indiscipline – I was a foolish, naughty young actor.
  • (19) This defence review, in all its absurdity, was made unavoidable by the debt crisis but worsened by a sequence of weak Labour defence ministers and the indiscipline of the chiefs of staff.
  • (20) Di Canio was asked whether he would be prepared to keep the indisciplined players.

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