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disciplinary | lin |

As nouns the difference between disciplinary and lin

is that disciplinary is a disciplinary action while lin is flax or lin can be ling (fish).

As an adjective disciplinary

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

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.
  • lin

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) linnen, from (etyl) .

    Verb

  • To desist (from something), stop.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.i:
  • Halfe furious vnto his foe he came, / Resolv'd in minde all suddenly to win, / Or soone to lose, before he once would lin [...].
  • To cease; leave off.
  • Derived terms
    * (l)

    Etymology 2

    From Irish or Gaelic.

    Alternative forms

    * linn * lyn

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A pool or collection of water, particularly one above or below a waterfall.
  • A waterfall, or cataract.
  • a roaring lin
  • A steep ravine.
  • (Webster 1913)