Usually means: Controlled behavior through training, rules.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. discipline: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. discipline: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. discipline: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. discipline: Collins English Dictionary
  5. discipline: Vocabulary.com
  6. Discipline, discipline: Wordnik
  7. (good) discipline, discipline: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. discipline: Wiktionary
  9. discipline: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. discipline: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. discipline: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Discipline, discipline: Dictionary.com
  13. discipline: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. discipline: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. Discipline: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. discipline: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. discipline: Rhymezone
  19. discipline, discipline (de), discipline (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. discipline: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Discipline: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. discipline: Free Dictionary
  23. discipline: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. discipline: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Literary Criticism (No longer online)
  2. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Discipline: Wideman Comparative Glossary of Project Management Terms
  2. discipline: Legal dictionary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. discipline: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. National MCH Center for Child Death Review (No longer online)
  3. Discipline: MEDLINE plus Illustrated Medical Encyclopedia
  4. discipline: Medical dictionary
  5. University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms (No longer online)
  6. Discipline: Brain Injury

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Unusual Sexual Practices (No longer online)
  2. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)
  3. discipline: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. discipline: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See disciplinal as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A controlled behaviour; self-control.
noun:  An enforced compliance or control.
noun:  A systematic method of obtaining obedience.
noun:  A state of order based on submission to authority.
noun:  A set of rules regulating behaviour.
noun:  A punishment to train or maintain control.
noun:  (Catholicism) A whip used for self-flagellation.
noun:  A flagellation as a means of obtaining sexual gratification.
noun:  A specific branch of knowledge, learning, or practice.
noun:  A category in which a certain art, sport or other activity belongs.
verb:  (transitive) To train someone by instruction and practice.
verb:  (transitive) To teach someone to obey authority.
verb:  (transitive) To punish someone in order to (re)gain control.
verb:  (transitive) To impose order on someone.

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