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Disc vs Disciplinary - What's the difference?

disc | disciplinary |

As nouns the difference between disc and disciplinary

is that disc is a thin, flat, circular plate or similar object while disciplinary is a disciplinary action.

As an adjective disciplinary is

having to do with discipline, or with the imposition of discipline.

disc

English

(wikipedia disc)

Alternative forms

* disk mainly US, or for magnetic media. See .

Noun

(en noun)
  • A thin, flat, circular plate or similar object.
  • A coin is a disc of metal.
  • An .
  • Something resembling a disc.
  • Venus's disc cut off light from the Sun.
  • A vinyl phonograph / gramophone record.
  • Turn the disc over, after it has finished.

    Usage notes

    See at the disk entry.

    Anagrams

    * ----

    disciplinary

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having to do with discipline, or with the imposition of discipline.
  • Debt can motivate or act as a disciplinary force for executives to achieve organizational efficiency.
  • For the purpose of imposing punishment.
  • The school has announced that it will take disciplinary measures against the students who participated in the protest activities.
  • Of or relating to an academic field of study.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2012-01
  • , author=Stephen Ledoux , title=Behaviorism at 100 , volume=100, issue=1, page=60 , magazine= citation , passage=Becoming more aware of the progress that scientists have made on behavioral fronts can reduce the risk that other natural scientists will resort to mystical agential accounts when they exceed the limits of their own disciplinary training.}}
    We hope that psychologists will applaud good studies of scientific behavior and thought regardless of the disciplinary specialty of the author.

    Noun

    (disciplinaries)
  • A disciplinary action.