Discipline vs Regret - What's the difference?
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A controlled behaviour; self-control.
* Rogers
An enforced compliance or control.
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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.
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, 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.
To feel sorry about (a thing that has or has not happened), afterthink: to wish that a thing had not happened, that something else had happened instead.
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(more generally) To feel sorry about (any thing).
Emotional pain on account of something done or experienced in the past, with a wish that it had been different; a looking back with dissatisfaction or with longing.
* Macaulay
* Clarendon
* Washington Irving
(obsolete) Dislike; aversion.
As verbs the difference between discipline and regret
is that discipline is while regret is to feel sorry about (a thing that has or has not happened), afterthink: to wish that a thing had not happened, that something else had happened instead.As a noun regret is
emotional pain on account of something done or experienced in the past, with a wish that it had been different; a looking back with dissatisfaction or with longing.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
* drillregret
English
(wikipedia regret)Verb
(regrett)Usage notes
This is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (the (-ing) form), except in set phrases with tell, say, and inform, where the to infinitive is used. SeeDerived terms
* regretterNoun
- What man does not remember with regret the first time he read Robinson Crusoe ?
- Never any prince expressed a more lively regret for the loss of a servant.
- From its peaceful bosom [the grave] spring none but fond regrets and tender recollections.