discipline meaning
EN
[ˈdɪ.sə.plɪn] 
US WDiscipline
- Discipline is the assertion of over more base desires, and is usually understood to be synonymous with self control. Self-discipline is to some extent a substitute for Motivation.
FR discipline 
- NounPLdisciplinesPREdis-SUF-ine
- A controlled behaviour; self-control.
- An enforced compliance or control.
- The masters looked unusually stern, but it was the sternness of thought rather than of discipline.
- A systematic method of obtaining obedience.
- A state of order based on submission to authority.
- A punishment to train or maintain control.
- A set of rules regulating behaviour.
- A flagellation as a means of obtaining sexual gratification.
- A specific branch of knowledge or learning.
- Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art.
- A category in which a certain art, sport or other activity belongs.
- A controlled behaviour; self-control.
- VerbSGdisciplinesPRdiscipliningPT, PPdisciplined
- (transitive) To train someone by instruction and practice.
- (transitive) To teach someone to obey authority.
- (transitive) To punish someone in order to (re)gain control.
- (transitive) To impose order on someone.
- (transitive) To train someone by instruction and practice.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- It is important to instill discipline in a child at an early age.
- “We just wanted to be disciplined in our growth and not overdilute our valuation,” Mr. Liu said.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- The medical registration act eventually did form the foundation for medicine to be able to claim an ever increasing occupational territory and the domination of all other health disciplines.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of discipline in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Nouns
- Abstract nouns
- Countable nouns
- Abstract nouns
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- Nouns
- fr discipline
- en disciplined
- fr discipliner
- fr disciplinez
- en disciplines
Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "discipline" is a noun, more specifically, an abstract noun and a countable noun. It's also a verb, more specifically, a transitive verb.