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Discipline vs. Attitude — What's the Difference?

Discipline vs. Attitude — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Discipline and Attitude

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Discipline

Discipline is action or inaction that is regulated to be in accordance (or to achieve accord) with a particular system of governance. Discipline is commonly applied to regulating human and animal behavior to its society or environment it belongs.

Attitude

Arrogant or aggressive disposition or behavior
One customer with a lot of attitude really tried my patience.

Discipline

Training expected to produce a specific character or pattern of behavior, especially training that produces moral or mental improvement
Was raised in the strictest discipline.

Attitude

A settled way of thinking or feeling about something
He was questioned on his attitude to South Africa
Being competitive is an attitude of mind

Discipline

Control obtained by enforcing compliance or order
Military discipline.
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Attitude

Truculent or uncooperative behaviour
I asked the waiter for a clean fork and all I got was attitude

Discipline

Controlled behavior resulting from disciplinary training; self-control
Dieting takes a lot of discipline.

Attitude

The orientation of an aircraft or spacecraft, relative to the direction of travel.

Discipline

A state of order based on submission to rules and authority
A teacher who demanded discipline in the classroom.

Attitude

A manner of thinking, feeling, or behaving that reflects a state of mind or disposition
Has a positive attitude about work.
Kept a dignified attitude throughout the crisis.

Discipline

Punishment intended to correct or train
Subjected to harsh discipline.

Attitude

A position of the body or manner of carrying oneself
Stood in a graceful attitude.

Discipline

A set of rules or methods, as those regulating the practice of a church or monastic order.

Attitude

A position similar to an arabesque in which a ballet dancer stands on one leg with the other raised either in front or in back and bent at the knee.

Discipline

A branch of knowledge or teaching
The discipline of mathematics.

Attitude

The orientation of an aircraft's axes relative to a reference line or plane, such as the horizon.

Discipline

To train by instruction and practice, as in following rules or developing self-control
The sergeant disciplined the recruits to become soldiers.

Attitude

The orientation of a spacecraft relative to its direction of motion.

Discipline

To punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience.

Attitude

The position of the body or way of carrying oneself.
The ballet dancer walked with a graceful attitude.

Discipline

To impose order on
Needed to discipline their study habits.

Attitude

(figurative) Disposition or state of mind.
Don't give me your negative attitude.
You've got a nice attitude today.

Discipline

A controlled behaviour; self-control.

Attitude

Unpleasant behavior.
He doesn't take attitude from anybody.
I asked the waiter for a clean fork and all I got was attitude.

Discipline

An enforced compliance or control.

Attitude

The orientation of a vehicle or other object relative to the horizon, direction of motion, other objects, etc.
The airliner had to land with a nose-up attitude after the incident.

Discipline

A systematic method of obtaining obedience.

Attitude

(ballet) A position similar to arabesque, but with the raised leg bent at the knee.

Discipline

A state of order based on submission to authority.

Attitude

To assume or to place in a particular position or orientation; to pose.

Discipline

A set of rules regulating behaviour.

Attitude

To express an attitude through one's posture, bearing, tone of voice, etc.

Discipline

A punishment to train or maintain control.

Attitude

The posture, action, or disposition of a figure or a statue.

Discipline

A specific branch of knowledge or learning.

Attitude

The posture or position of a person or an animal, or the manner in which the parts of his body are disposed; position assumed or studied to serve a purpose; as, a threatening attitude; an attitude of entreaty.

Discipline

A category in which a certain art, sport or other activity belongs.

Attitude

Fig.: Position as indicating action, feeling, or mood; as, in times of trouble let a nation preserve a firm attitude; one's mental attitude in respect to religion.
The attitude of the country was rapidly changing.
'T is business of a painter in his choice of attitudes (posituræ) to foresee the effect and harmony of the lights and shadows.
Never to keep the body in the same posture half an hour at a time.

Discipline

(transitive) To train someone by instruction and practice.

Attitude

A complex mental state involving beliefs and feelings and values and dispositions to act in certain ways;
He had the attitude that work was fun

Discipline

(transitive) To teach someone to obey authority.

Attitude

Position or arrangement of the body and its limbs;
He assumed an attitude of surrender

Discipline

(transitive) To punish someone in order to (re)gain control.

Attitude

A theatrical pose created for effect;
The actor struck just the right attitude

Discipline

(transitive) To impose order on someone.

Attitude

Position of aircraft or spacecraft relative to a frame of reference (the horizon or direction of motion)

Discipline

The treatment suited to a disciple or learner; education; development of the faculties by instruction and exercise; training, whether physical, mental, or moral.
Wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity.
Discipline aims at the removal of bad habits and the substitution of good ones, especially those of order, regularity, and obedience.

Discipline

Training to act in accordance with established rules; accustoming to systematic and regular action; drill.
Their wildness lose, and, quitting nature's part,Obey the rules and discipline of art.

Discipline

Subjection to rule; submissiveness to order and control; habit of obedience.
The most perfect, who have their passions in the best discipline, are yet obliged to be constantly on their guard.

Discipline

Severe training, corrective of faults; instruction by means of misfortune, suffering, punishment, etc.
A sharp discipline of half a century had sufficed to educate us.

Discipline

Correction; chastisement; punishment inflicted by way of correction and training.
Giving her the discipline of the strap.

Discipline

The subject matter of instruction; a branch of knowledge.

Discipline

The enforcement of methods of correction against one guilty of ecclesiastical offenses; reformatory or penal action toward a church member.

Discipline

Self-inflicted and voluntary corporal punishment, as penance, or otherwise; specifically, a penitential scourge.

Discipline

A system of essential rules and duties; as, the Romish or Anglican discipline.

Discipline

To educate; to develop by instruction and exercise; to train.

Discipline

To accustom to regular and systematic action; to bring under control so as to act systematically; to train to act together under orders; to teach subordination to; to form a habit of obedience in; to drill.
Ill armed, and worse disciplined.
His mind . . . imperfectly disciplined by nature.

Discipline

To improve by corrective and penal methods; to chastise; to correct.
Has he disciplined Aufidius soundly?

Discipline

To inflict ecclesiastical censures and penalties upon.

Discipline

A branch of knowledge;
In what discipline is his doctorate?
Teachers should be well trained in their subject
Anthropology is the study of human beings

Discipline

A system of rules of conduct or method of practice;
He quickly learned the discipline of prison routine
For such a plan to work requires discipline

Discipline

The trait of being well behaved;
He insisted on discipline among the troops

Discipline

Training to improve strength or self-control

Discipline

The act of punishing;
The offenders deserved the harsh discipline they received

Discipline

Train by instruction and practice; especially to teach self-control;
Parents must discipline their children
Is this dog trained?

Discipline

Punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience;
The teacher disciplined the pupils rather frequently

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