Major vs. Discipline

Majornoun

a military rank between captain and lieutenant colonel

Majornoun

The main area of study of a student working toward a degree at a college or university.

Majornoun

A student at a college or university concentrating on a given area of study.

Majornoun

A person of legal age.

Majornoun

(logic) The major premise.

Majornoun

(Canadian football) An alternate term for touchdown; short for "major score".

Majornoun

A large, commercially successful record label, as opposed to an indie.

Majornoun

An elder brother (especially at a public school).

Majornoun

(zoology) A large leaf-cutter ant that acts as a soldier, defending the nest.

Majoradjective

Of great significance or importance.

Majoradjective

Greater in number, quantity, or extent

Majoradjective

Of full legal age, having attained majority

Majoradjective

(music) Of a scale that follows the pattern: tone - tone - semitone - tone - tone - tone - semitone

Majoradjective

(music) Being the larger of two intervals denoted by the same ordinal number.

Majoradjective

(music) Containing the note a major third (four half steps) above the tonic.

Majorverb

(intransitive) to concentrate on a particular area of study as a student in a college or university

Majoradjective

Greater in number, quantity, or extent; as, the major part of the assembly; the major part of the revenue; the major part of the territory.

Majoradjective

Of greater dignity; more important.

Majoradjective

Of full legal age; adult.

Majoradjective

Greater by a semitone, either in interval or in difference of pitch from another tone.

Majornoun

An officer next in rank above a captain and next below a lieutenant colonel; the lowest field officer.

Majornoun

A person of full age.

Majornoun

That premise which contains the major term. It its the first proposition of a regular syllogism; as: No unholy person is qualified for happiness in heaven [the major]. Every man in his natural state is unholy [minor]. Therefore, no man in his natural state is qualified for happiness in heaven [conclusion or inference].

Majornoun

A mayor.

Majornoun

a commissioned military officer in the United States Army or Air Force or Marines; below lieutenant colonel and above captain

Majornoun

British statesman who was prime minister from 1990 until 1997 (born in 1943)

Majornoun

a university student who is studying a particular field as the principal subject;

Majornoun

the principal field of study of a student at a university;

Majorverb

have as one's principal field of study;

Majoradjective

of greater importance or stature or rank;

Majoradjective

greater in scope or effect;

Majoradjective

greater in number or size or amount;

Majoradjective

of the field of academic study in which one concentrates or specializes;

Majoradjective

of a scale or mode;

Majoradjective

of greater seriousness or danger;

Majoradjective

of full legal age;

Majoradjective

of the elder of two boys with the same family name;

Majoradjective

important, serious, or significant

Majoradjective

greater or more important; main

Majoradjective

(of a surgical operation) serious or life-threatening

Majoradjective

(of a scale) having intervals of a semitone between the third and fourth, and seventh and eighth degrees.

Majoradjective

(of an interval) equivalent to that between the tonic and another note of a major scale, and greater by a semitone than the corresponding minor interval

Majoradjective

(of a key) based on a major scale, tending to produce a bright or joyful effect

Majoradjective

(appended to a surname in public schools) indicating the elder of two brothers.

Majoradjective

(of a term) occurring as the predicate in the conclusion of a categorical syllogism.

Majoradjective

(of a premise) containing the major term in a categorical syllogism.

Majornoun

a rank of officer in the army and the US air force, above captain and below lieutenant colonel.

Majornoun

an officer in charge of a section of band instruments

Majornoun

a major key, interval, or scale.

Majornoun

a system of change-ringing using eight bells.

Majornoun

a major organization or competition

Majornoun

a student's principal subject or course

Majornoun

a student specializing in a specified subject

Majornoun

a major term or premise.

Majornoun

short for major suit

Majornoun

a goal.

Majorverb

specialize in (a particular subject) at college or university

Major

Major is a military rank of commissioned officer status, with corresponding ranks existing in many military forces throughout the world.

Disciplinenoun

A controlled behaviour; self-control.

Disciplinenoun

An enforced compliance or control.

Disciplinenoun

A systematic method of obtaining obedience.

Disciplinenoun

A state of order based on submission to authority.

Disciplinenoun

A punishment to train or maintain control.

Disciplinenoun

A whip used for self-flagellation.

Disciplinenoun

A set of rules regulating behaviour.

Disciplinenoun

A flagellation as a means of obtaining sexual gratification.

Disciplinenoun

A specific branch of knowledge or learning.

Disciplinenoun

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

Disciplineverb

(transitive) To train someone by instruction and practice.

Disciplineverb

(transitive) To teach someone to obey authority.

Disciplineverb

(transitive) To punish someone in order to (re)gain control.

Disciplineverb

(transitive) To impose order on someone.

Disciplinenoun

The treatment suited to a disciple or learner; education; development of the faculties by instruction and exercise; training, whether physical, mental, or moral.

Disciplinenoun

Training to act in accordance with established rules; accustoming to systematic and regular action; drill.

Disciplinenoun

Subjection to rule; submissiveness to order and control; habit of obedience.

Disciplinenoun

Severe training, corrective of faults; instruction by means of misfortune, suffering, punishment, etc.

Disciplinenoun

Correction; chastisement; punishment inflicted by way of correction and training.

Disciplinenoun

The subject matter of instruction; a branch of knowledge.

Disciplinenoun

The enforcement of methods of correction against one guilty of ecclesiastical offenses; reformatory or penal action toward a church member.

Disciplinenoun

Self-inflicted and voluntary corporal punishment, as penance, or otherwise; specifically, a penitential scourge.

Disciplinenoun

A system of essential rules and duties; as, the Romish or Anglican discipline.

Disciplineverb

To educate; to develop by instruction and exercise; to train.

Disciplineverb

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.

Disciplineverb

To improve by corrective and penal methods; to chastise; to correct.

Disciplineverb

To inflict ecclesiastical censures and penalties upon.

Disciplinenoun

a branch of knowledge;

Disciplinenoun

a system of rules of conduct or method of practice;

Disciplinenoun

the trait of being well behaved;

Disciplinenoun

training to improve strength or self-control

Disciplinenoun

the act of punishing;

Disciplineverb

train by instruction and practice; especially to teach self-control;

Disciplineverb

punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience;

Discipline

Discipline is action or inaction that is regulated to be in accordance (or to achieve accord) with a particular system of governance. Discipline is commonly applied to regulating human and animal behavior to its society or environment it belongs.