Discipline vs. Focus — What's the Difference?

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.

The centre of interest or activity

Training expected to produce a specific character or pattern of behavior, especially training that produces moral or mental improvement

The state or quality of having or producing clear visual definition

Control obtained by enforcing compliance or order

One of the fixed points from which the distances to any point of a given curve, such as an ellipse or parabola, are connected by a linear relation.

Controlled behavior resulting from disciplinary training; self-control

An element of a sentence that is given prominence by intonational or other means.

A state of order based on submission to rules and authority

Adapt to the prevailing level of light and become able to see clearly

Punishment intended to correct or train

Pay particular attention to

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

Place the focus on (an element of a sentence).

A branch of knowledge or teaching

The distinctness or clarity of an image rendered by an optical system.

To train by instruction and practice, as in following rules or developing self-control

The state of maximum distinctness or clarity of such an image

To punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience.

An apparatus used to adjust the focal length of an optical system in order to make an image distinct or clear

To impose order on

A point at which rays of light or other radiation converge or from which they appear to diverge, as after refraction or reflection in an optical system

A controlled behaviour; self-control.

See focal length.

An enforced compliance or control.

A center of interest or activity

A systematic method of obtaining obedience.

Close or narrow attention; concentration

A state of order based on submission to authority.

A condition in which something can be clearly apprehended or perceived

A set of rules regulating behaviour.

(Medicine) The region of a localized bodily infection or disease.

A punishment to train or maintain control.

(Geology) The point of origin of an earthquake.

A specific branch of knowledge or learning.

(Mathematics) A fixed point whose relationship with a directrix determines a conic section.

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

To cause (light rays, for example) to converge on or toward a central point; concentrate.

(transitive) To train someone by instruction and practice.

To render (an object or image) in clear outline or sharp detail by adjustment of one's vision or an optical device; bring into focus.

(transitive) To teach someone to obey authority.

To adjust (a lens, for example) to produce a clear image.

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

To direct toward a particular point or purpose

(transitive) To impose order on someone.

To converge on or toward a central point of focus; be focused.

The treatment suited to a disciple or learner; education; development of the faculties by instruction and exercise; training, whether physical, mental, or moral.

To adjust one's vision or an optical device so as to render a clear, distinct image.

Training to act in accordance with established rules; accustoming to systematic and regular action; drill.

To concentrate attention or energy

Subjection to rule; submissiveness to order and control; habit of obedience.

A point at which reflected or refracted rays of light converge.

Severe training, corrective of faults; instruction by means of misfortune, suffering, punishment, etc.

A point of a conic at which rays reflected from a curve or surface converge.

Correction; chastisement; punishment inflicted by way of correction and training.

The fact of the convergence of light on the photographic medium.

The subject matter of instruction; a branch of knowledge.

The quality of the convergence of light on the photographic medium.

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

(uncountable) Concentration of attention.

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

The exact point of where an earthquake occurs, in three dimensions (underneath the epicentre).

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

(GUI) The status of being the currently active element in a user interface, often indicated by a visual highlight.

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

(linguistics) The most important word or phrase in a sentence or passage, or the one that imparts information.

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.

An object used in casting a magic spell.

To improve by corrective and penal methods; to chastise; to correct.

To concentrate during a task.

To inflict ecclesiastical censures and penalties upon.

(transitive) To direct attention, effort, or energy to a particular audience or task.

A branch of knowledge;

(transitive) To cause (rays of light, etc) to converge at a single point.

A system of rules of conduct or method of practice;

(transitive) To adjust (a lens, an optical instrument) in order to position an image with respect to the focal plane.

The trait of being well behaved;

(intransitive) To concentrate one’s attention.

Training to improve strength or self-control

To transfer the input focus to (a visual element), so that it receives subsequent input.

The act of punishing;

To aggregate figures of accounts.

Train by instruction and practice; especially to teach self-control;

A point in which the rays of light meet, after being reflected or refracted, and at which the image is formed; as, the focus of a lens or mirror.

Punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience;

A point so related to a conic section and certain straight line called the directrix that the ratio of the distance between any point of the curve and the focus to the distance of the same point from the directrix is constant.

A central point; a point of concentration.

To bring to a focus; to focalize; as, to focus a camera.

The concentration of attention or energy on something;

Maximum clarity or distinctness of an image rendered by an optical system;

Maximum clarity or distinctness of an idea;

A central point or locus of an infection in an organism;

Special emphasis attached to something;

A point of convergence of light (or other radiation) or a point from which it diverges

A fixed reference point on the concave side of a conic section

Direct one's attention on something;

Cause to converge on or toward a central point;

Bring into focus or alignment; to converge or cause to converge; of ideas or emotions

Become focussed or come into focus;

Put (an image) into focus;