Discipline vs. Restraint — 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 act of restraining

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

The condition of being restrained, especially the condition of losing one's freedom

Control obtained by enforcing compliance or order

An influence that inhibits or restrains

Controlled behavior resulting from disciplinary training; self-control

A device or other means of restraining movement

A state of order based on submission to rules and authority

Control of the expression of one's feelings; constraint

Punishment intended to correct or train

(countable) something that restrains, ties, fastens or secures

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

(uncountable) control or caution; reserve

A branch of knowledge or teaching

The act or process of restraining, or of holding back or hindering from motion or action, in any manner; hindrance of the will, or of any action, physical or mental.

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

The state of being restrained.

To punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience.

That which restrains, as a law, a prohibition, or the like; limitation; restriction.

To impose order on

The of act controlling by restraining someone or something;

A controlled behaviour; self-control.

Discipline in personal and social activities;

An enforced compliance or control.

The state of being physically constrained;

A systematic method of obtaining obedience.

A rule or condition that limits freedom;

A state of order based on submission to authority.

Lack of ornamentation;

A set of rules regulating behaviour.

A device that retards something's motion;

A punishment to train or maintain control.

A specific branch of knowledge or learning.

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

(transitive) To train someone by instruction and practice.

(transitive) To teach someone to obey authority.

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

(transitive) To impose order on someone.

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

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

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

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

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

The subject matter of instruction; a branch of knowledge.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

To inflict ecclesiastical censures and penalties upon.

A branch of knowledge;

A system of rules of conduct or method of practice;

The trait of being well behaved;

Training to improve strength or self-control

The act of punishing;

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

Punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience;