Principle vs. Discipline

Principlenoun

A fundamental assumption or guiding belief.

Principlenoun

A rule used to choose among solutions to a problem.

Principlenoun

Moral rule or aspect.

Principlenoun

(physics) A rule or law of nature, or the basic idea on how the laws of nature are applied.

Principlenoun

A fundamental essence, particularly one producing a given quality.

Principlenoun

(obsolete) A beginning.

Principlenoun

A source, or origin; that from which anything proceeds; fundamental substance or energy; primordial substance; ultimate element, or cause.

Principlenoun

An original faculty or endowment.

Principleverb

(transitive) To equip with principles; to establish, or fix, in certain principles; to impress with any tenet or rule of conduct.

Principlenoun

Beginning; commencement.

Principlenoun

A source, or origin; that from which anything proceeds; fundamental substance or energy; primordial substance; ultimate element, or cause.

Principlenoun

An original faculty or endowment.

Principlenoun

A fundamental truth; a comprehensive law or doctrine, from which others are derived, or on which others are founded; a general truth; an elementary proposition; a maxim; an axiom; a postulate.

Principlenoun

A settled rule of action; a governing law of conduct; an opinion or belief which exercises a directing influence on the life and behavior; a rule (usually, a right rule) of conduct consistently directing one's actions; as, a person of no principle.

Principlenoun

Any original inherent constituent which characterizes a substance, or gives it its essential properties, and which can usually be separated by analysis; - applied especially to drugs, plant extracts, etc.

Principleverb

To equip with principles; to establish, or fix, in certain principles; to impress with any tenet, or rule of conduct, good or ill.

Principlenoun

a basic generalization that is accepted as true and that can be used as a basis for reasoning or conduct;

Principlenoun

a rule or standard especially of good behavior;

Principlenoun

a basic truth or law or assumption;

Principlenoun

a rule or law concerning a natural phenomenon or the function of a complex system;

Principlenoun

rule of personal conduct

Principlenoun

(law) an explanation of the fundamental reasons (especially an explanation of the working of some device in terms of laws of nature);

Principlenoun

a fundamental truth or proposition that serves as the foundation for a system of belief or behaviour or for a chain of reasoning

Principlenoun

a rule or belief governing one's behaviour

Principlenoun

morally correct behaviour and attitudes

Principlenoun

a general scientific theorem or law that has numerous special applications across a wide field.

Principlenoun

a natural law forming the basis for the construction or working of a machine

Principlenoun

a fundamental source or basis of something

Principlenoun

a fundamental quality determining the nature of something

Principlenoun

an active or characteristic constituent of a substance, obtained by simple analysis or separation

Principle

A principle is a proposition or value that is a guide for behavior or evaluation. In law, it is a rule that has to be or usually is to be followed.

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.