Discipline
Part of speech: verb
Definition: 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.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A controlled behaviour; self-control An enforced compliance or control A systematic method of obtaining obedience A state of order based on submission to authority A punishment to train or maintain control A set of rules regulating behaviour A flagellation as a means of obtaining sexual gratification A specific branch of knowledge or learning A category in which a certain art, sport or other activity belongs, or a sub-category of said activity.
Example sentence: Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
Check
Part of speech: noun
Definition: An order to a bank to pay money to a named person or entity; a cheque (UK, Canada).A mark (especially a checkmark: √ ) used as an indicator, equivalent to a tick (UK).A pattern made up of a grid of squares of alternating colors; a checkered pattern.A bill, particularly in a restaurant.A control; a limit or stop.An inspection or examination.The situation in which the king is directly threatened by an opposing piece.A maneuver performed by a player to take another player out of the play.
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To inspect; to examine.To mark with a checkmark.To control, limit, or halt.To verify or compare with a source of information.To leave in safekeeping.To leave with a shipping agent for shipping.To physically remove a person from play.To remain in the hand without betting, only legal if no one has yet bet.
Example sentence: Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.