Discipline vs Lexicographist - What's the difference?
discipline | lexicographist |
A controlled behaviour; self-control.
* Rogers
An enforced compliance or control.
* '>citation
A systematic method of obtaining obedience.
* C. J. Smith
A state of order based on submission to authority.
* Dryden
A punishment to train or maintain control.
* Addison
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= A category in which a certain art, sport or other activity belongs.
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.
(chiefly, archaic) A student specialising in the discipline of (l); lexicographer.
*1889 , William Gardner Hale The ''Cum''?Constructions , John Wilson and Son; Chapter VII,
*:Whatever the a priori'' grammarian might do, the lexicographist , at any rate, ought to have thought it antecedently probably that, here and there, a construction with which a given idea, not expressed by it, was naturally associated, would come in time to be understood and used as ''expressing that idea.
As a verb discipline
is .As a noun lexicographist is
(chiefly|archaic) a student specialising in the discipline of (l); lexicographer.discipline
English
Noun
(en noun)- The most perfect, who have their passions in the best discipline , are yet obliged to be constantly on their guard.
- Discipline aims at the removal of bad habits and the substitution of good ones, especially those of order, regularity, and obedience.
- Their wildness lose, and, quitting nature's part, / Obey the rules and discipline of art.
- giving her the discipline of the strap
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)
Synonyms
* (branch or category) field, sphere * (punishment) penalty, sanctionAntonyms
* spontaneityDerived terms
* academic disciplineVerb
(disciplin)Synonyms
* drilllexicographist
English
Noun
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