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Creative vs Discipline - What's the difference?

creative | discipline |

As nouns the difference between creative and discipline

is that creative is a person directly involved in a creative marketing process while discipline is a controlled behaviour; self-control.

As an adjective creative

is tending to create things, or having the ability to create; often, excellently, in a novel fashion, or any or all of these.

As a verb discipline is

to train someone by instruction and practice.

creative

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Tending to create things, or having the ability to create; often, excellently, in a novel fashion, or any or all of these.
  • a creative dramatist who avoids cliche
  • (of a created thing) Original, expressive and imaginative.
  • a creative new solution to an old problem
  • (set theory)
  • a creative set

    Derived terms

    * creative accounting * creative differences * creative writing

    Synonyms

    * inventive * original

    Antonyms

    * imitative (tend to model an extant thing ) * annihilative (tend to make extinct )

    Noun

  • (countable) A person directly involved in a creative marketing process.
  • He is a visionary creative .
  • (uncountable) Artistic material used in advertising, e.g. photographs, drawings, or video.
  • Have you finished the creative for next week's email campaign?
    The design team has completed the creative for next month's multi-part ad campaign.
    I've included in my portfolio all the creative I've completed in my five year design career.

    Anagrams

    * ----

    discipline

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A controlled behaviour; self-control.
  • * Rogers
  • The most perfect, who have their passions in the best discipline , are yet obliged to be constantly on their guard.
  • An enforced compliance or control.
  • * '>citation
  • A systematic method of obtaining obedience.
  • * C. J. Smith
  • Discipline aims at the removal of bad habits and the substitution of good ones, especially those of order, regularity, and obedience.
  • A state of order based on submission to authority.
  • * Dryden
  • Their wildness lose, and, quitting nature's part, / Obey the rules and discipline of art.
  • A punishment to train or maintain control.
  • * Addison
  • giving her the discipline of the strap
  • A set of rules regulating behaviour.
  • A flagellation as a means of obtaining sexual gratification.
  • A specific branch of knowledge or learning.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= Boundary problems , passage=Economics is a messy discipline : too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.}}
    (Bishop Wilkins)
  • A category in which a certain art, sport or other activity belongs.
  • Synonyms

    * (branch or category) field, sphere * (punishment) penalty, sanction

    Antonyms

    * spontaneity

    Derived terms

    * academic discipline

    Verb

    (disciplin)
  • To train someone by instruction and practice.
  • To teach someone to obey authority.
  • To punish someone in order to (re)gain control.
  • To impose order on someone.
  • Synonyms

    * drill