Disciplinary
adjective
Related to punishment or dealing with a violation.
The company will take disciplinary action against the employee who violated the code of conduct.
Often appears as...
- disciplinary action
- disciplinary procedure
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Formal
adjective
Concerning a specific field of academic study.
The disciplinary curriculum includes courses in mathematics, science, and English literature.
Often appears as...
- disciplinary boundary
- disciplinary curriculum
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Formal
Academic
adjective
Related to punishment or dealing with a violation.
The company will take disciplinary action against the employee who violated the code of conduct.
Often appears as...
- disciplinary action
- disciplinary procedure
Usage tips
Formal
adjective
Concerning a specific field of academic study.
The disciplinary curriculum includes courses in mathematics, science, and English literature.
Often appears as...
- disciplinary boundary
- disciplinary curriculum
Usage tips
Formal
Academic
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Usually implies something wrong has been done and will lead to consequences.
The student faced disciplinary action for cheating on the exam.
Pro Tip 2/3Workplace Context
Often used in jobs to describe rules and the consequences of breaking them.
The worker was aware of the disciplinary procedures before breaking company policy.
Pro Tip 3/3Formal Process
It refers to an official process followed by an institution or organization.
The faculty followed the disciplinary measures outlined in the university handbook.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Usually implies something wrong has been done and will lead to consequences.
The student faced disciplinary action for cheating on the exam.
Pro Tip 2/3Workplace Context
Often used in jobs to describe rules and the consequences of breaking them.
The worker was aware of the disciplinary procedures before breaking company policy.
Pro Tip 3/3Formal Process
It refers to an official process followed by an institution or organization.
The faculty followed the disciplinary measures outlined in the university handbook.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Usually implies something wrong has been done and will lead to consequences.
The student faced disciplinary action for cheating on the exam.
Pro Tip 2/3Workplace Context
Often used in jobs to describe rules and the consequences of breaking them.
The worker was aware of the disciplinary procedures before breaking company policy.
Pro Tip 3/3Formal Process
It refers to an official process followed by an institution or organization.
The faculty followed the disciplinary measures outlined in the university handbook.
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Tal Golesworthy: How I...
The medics amongst you, if there are any, will recognize the first two, but there will be nobody else here that understands all those four words. Taking the jargon out was very important to ensure that everyone in the team understood exactly what was meant when a particular phrase was used. Our disciplinary conventions were funny as well.
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How to foster productive...
Now, obviously, this doesn't always happen. But by separating reactions to speech from the disciplinary system, institutions of higher education have created a space for productive disagreement and a broadening of perspectives. We're all biased. I don't mean that in a bad way. All of us are influenced, and rightly so,
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How I'm Working for...
We got hate mail on a daily basis. We were attacked in social media and national press. We received death threats. We lost standing in our community. Some of us got excommunicated. Most of us got put in front of a disciplinary council, and were rejected from the communities that we loved
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Let the environment...
you enter the disciplinary research in each of these, you find something remarkably important, the conclusion that we may have come to the point where we have to bend the curves, that we may have entered the most challenging and exciting decade in the history humanity on the planet,
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Inviting serendipity to...
matter the most to us what serendipity can help us connect to those people even if they're on unexpected edges geographic edges generation alleges disciplinary edges people we never knew existed before but who become extraordinarily valuable to us in terms
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Why art thrives at...
Skilled or unskilled, all are welcome. In fact, part of the charm and the innovation of the work here is that so many makers aren't artists at all, but scientists or engineers or welders or garbage collectors, and their works cross disciplinary boundaries,
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Wes Moore: How to talk...
my behavior just kept on getting worse. I was on academic and disciplinary probation before I hit double digits, and I first felt handcuffs on my wrists when I was 11 years old. And so when I was 13 years old, my mother came up to me, and she was like,
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Do schools kill...
The brain isn't divided into compartments. In fact, creativity -- which I define as the process of having original ideas that have value -- more often than not comes about through the interaction of different disciplinary ways of seeing things.
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Where the Inmates Rule PIPE...
known criminals and now what they only want is the quota power you know so they help the authorities to have to come the new criminals they're a major tourism because as a disciplinary Lotito and those who takes on the legal is the most
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Heather Barnett: What...
It's an online, open, democratic network for slime mold researchers and enthusiasts to share knowledge and experimentation across disciplinary divides and across academic divides.
Video examples
Tal Golesworthy: How I...
The medics amongst you, if there are any, will recognize the first two, but there will be nobody else here that understands all those four words. Taking the jargon out was very important to ensure that everyone in the team understood exactly what was meant when a particular phrase was used. Our disciplinary conventions were funny as well.
Video examples
How to foster productive...
Now, obviously, this doesn't always happen. But by separating reactions to speech from the disciplinary system, institutions of higher education have created a space for productive disagreement and a broadening of perspectives. We're all biased. I don't mean that in a bad way. All of us are influenced, and rightly so,
Video examples
How I'm Working for...
We got hate mail on a daily basis. We were attacked in social media and national press. We received death threats. We lost standing in our community. Some of us got excommunicated. Most of us got put in front of a disciplinary council, and were rejected from the communities that we loved
Video examples
Let the environment...
you enter the disciplinary research in each of these, you find something remarkably important, the conclusion that we may have come to the point where we have to bend the curves, that we may have entered the most challenging and exciting decade in the history humanity on the planet,
Video examples
Inviting serendipity to...
matter the most to us what serendipity can help us connect to those people even if they're on unexpected edges geographic edges generation alleges disciplinary edges people we never knew existed before but who become extraordinarily valuable to us in terms
Video examples
Why art thrives at...
Skilled or unskilled, all are welcome. In fact, part of the charm and the innovation of the work here is that so many makers aren't artists at all, but scientists or engineers or welders or garbage collectors, and their works cross disciplinary boundaries,
Video examples
Wes Moore: How to talk...
my behavior just kept on getting worse. I was on academic and disciplinary probation before I hit double digits, and I first felt handcuffs on my wrists when I was 11 years old. And so when I was 13 years old, my mother came up to me, and she was like,
Video examples
Do schools kill...
The brain isn't divided into compartments. In fact, creativity -- which I define as the process of having original ideas that have value -- more often than not comes about through the interaction of different disciplinary ways of seeing things.
Video examples
Where the Inmates Rule PIPE...
known criminals and now what they only want is the quota power you know so they help the authorities to have to come the new criminals they're a major tourism because as a disciplinary Lotito and those who takes on the legal is the most
Video examples
Heather Barnett: What...
It's an online, open, democratic network for slime mold researchers and enthusiasts to share knowledge and experimentation across disciplinary divides and across academic divides.
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Edith Stein
German Saint
The entire educational process must be carried out with love, which is perceptible in every disciplinary measure and which does not instill any fear. And the most effective educational method is not the word of instruction but the living example without which all words remain useless.
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Jim Brown
American Athlete
I run a program called Amer-I-Can. We've taught in prisons, schools, juvenile facilities and we teach in the community. We have the greatest record from the standpoint of dealing with grade point averages, disciplinary action and attendance in schools.
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Robert Darnton
American Historian
All of us are citizens in a republic much larger than the Republic of America. It is the Republic of Letters, a realm of the mind that extends everywhere, without police, national boundaries, or disciplinary frontiers.
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Judith Butler
American Philosopher
The point is not to stay marginal, but to participate in whatever network of marginal zones is spawned from other disciplinary centers and which, together, constitute a multiple displacement of those authorities.
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Irving Babbitt
American Critic
We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favored a free expansion toward a humanism that was in the highest degree disciplinary and selective.
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Kym Whitley
American Actress
My parenting style is probably like that of my parents, because you do how you learn. My mother was very nurturing and loving, but very stern. She was a disciplinary. My dad was also very loving.
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Mort Walker
American Artist
When the war was over and the guys were back to shaving every day, the editor thought the Beetle Bailey strips were hurting their disciplinary efforts to get the guys back to routine.
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Prashant Bhushan
Indian Lawyer
The judiciary is the only institution in the country which remains totally unaccountable. There is no institution with disciplinary powers over the judiciary.
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Didier Deschamps
French Businessman
I'm not immune to disciplinary problems and it's up to me to make strong choices. It's my responsibility.
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William Hedgcock Webster
American Public Servant
We have disciplinary authority and will use it when appropriate.
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Edith Stein
German Saint
The entire educational process must be carried out with love, which is perceptible in every disciplinary measure and which does not instill any fear. And the most effective educational method is not the word of instruction but the living example without which all words remain useless.
Quote examples
Jim Brown
American Athlete
I run a program called Amer-I-Can. We've taught in prisons, schools, juvenile facilities and we teach in the community. We have the greatest record from the standpoint of dealing with grade point averages, disciplinary action and attendance in schools.
Quote examples
Robert Darnton
American Historian
All of us are citizens in a republic much larger than the Republic of America. It is the Republic of Letters, a realm of the mind that extends everywhere, without police, national boundaries, or disciplinary frontiers.
Quote examples
Judith Butler
American Philosopher
The point is not to stay marginal, but to participate in whatever network of marginal zones is spawned from other disciplinary centers and which, together, constitute a multiple displacement of those authorities.
Quote examples
Irving Babbitt
American Critic
We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favored a free expansion toward a humanism that was in the highest degree disciplinary and selective.
Quote examples
Kym Whitley
American Actress
My parenting style is probably like that of my parents, because you do how you learn. My mother was very nurturing and loving, but very stern. She was a disciplinary. My dad was also very loving.
Quote examples
Mort Walker
American Artist
When the war was over and the guys were back to shaving every day, the editor thought the Beetle Bailey strips were hurting their disciplinary efforts to get the guys back to routine.
Quote examples
Prashant Bhushan
Indian Lawyer
The judiciary is the only institution in the country which remains totally unaccountable. There is no institution with disciplinary powers over the judiciary.
Quote examples
Didier Deschamps
French Businessman
I'm not immune to disciplinary problems and it's up to me to make strong choices. It's my responsibility.
Quote examples
William Hedgcock Webster
American Public Servant
We have disciplinary authority and will use it when appropriate.
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