Disciplineとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈdɪ.sə.plɪn/

名詞

discipline (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 disciplines)

1. A controlled behaviour; self-control.
   • a. 1729, John Rogers, The Difficulties of Obtaining Salvation

     The most perfect, who have their passions in the best discipline, are yet obliged to be constantly on their guard.

   1. An enforced compliance or control.
      • 1956, Michael Arlen, “1/1/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days‎^[1]:

        The masters looked unusually stern, but it was the sternness of thought rather than of discipline.

   2. A systematic method of obtaining obedience.
      • 1871, Charles John Smith, Synonyms Discriminated

        Discipline aims at the removal of bad habits and the substitution of good ones, especially those of order, regularity, and obedience.

      • 1973, Bible (New International Version), Hebrews 12:7:

        Endure hardship as discipline; God is treating you as his children. For what children are not disciplined by their father?

   3. A state of order based on submission to authority.
      • 1697, “The Second Book of the Georgics”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], OCLC 403869432:

        Their wildness lose, and, quitting nature's part, / Obey the rules and discipline of art.

   4. A set of rules regulating behaviour.
   5. A punishment to train or maintain control.
      • 1712 October 13, Joseph Addison; Richard Steele, “THURSDAY, October 2, 1712 [Julian calendar]”, in The Spectator, number 499; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume V, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, OCLC 191120697:

        giving her the discipline of the strap

      1. (Catholicism) A whip used for self-flagellation.
      2. A flagellation as a means of obtaining sexual gratification.
2. A specific branch of knowledge or learning.
   • 2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:

     Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art.

   • 1648, John Wilkins, Mathematical Magick:

     This mathematical discipline, by the help of geometrical principles, doth teach to contrive several weights and powers unto motion or rest.

   1. A category in which a certain art, sport or other activity belongs.

同意語

• (branch または category): field, sphere
• (punishment): penalty, sanction

反意語

• (controlled behaviour et al.): spontaneity

派生語

• academic discipline

関連する語

• disciple
• disciplinal
• disciplinarian
• disciplinary
• discipliner
• interdisciplinary
• multidisciplinary

参考

• castigation
• stricture

動詞

discipline (三人称単数 現在形 disciplines, 現在分詞 disciplining, 過去形および過去分詞形 disciplined)

1. (transitive) To train someone by instruction and practice.
2. (transitive) To teach someone to obey authority.
3. (transitive) To punish someone in order to (re)gain control.
4. (transitive) To impose order on someone.

同意語

• drill

関連する語

• disciplined
• disciplinable
• disciplinarian