Reform vs Discipline - What's the difference?
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Amendment of what is defective, vicious, corrupt, or depraved; reformation; as, reform of elections; reform of government.
To put into a new and improved form or condition; to restore to a former good state, or bring from bad to good; to change from worse to better; to amend; to correct.
* Jonathan Swift
To return to a good state; to amend or correct one's own character or habits; as, a person of settled habits of vice will seldom reform.
(intransitive) To form again or in a new configuration.
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, date=August 21
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, title=The Darkness: Hot Cakes (Music Review)
, work=The Onion AV Club
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.
Reform is a related term of discipline.
As a noun reform
is reform.As a verb discipline is
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Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* reformation * amendment * rectification * correctionDerived terms
* monetary reformVerb
(en verb)- to reform''' a profligate man; to '''reform corrupt manners or morals
- The example alone of a vicious prince will corrupt an age; but that of a good one will not reform it.
- This product contains reformed meat.
- The regiment reformed after surviving the first attack.
- The pop group reformed for one final tour.
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Synonyms
* amend * correct * rectify * mend * repair * better * improve * restore * reclaimAnagrams
* former ----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.}}
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