Portuguese English Dictionary

português - English

disciplina in English:

1. discipline


You aren't cut out for the military because of its rigid discipline.
He needs discipline.
Not until the end of the nineteenth century, did plant breeding become a scientific discipline.
Discipline is rather mild at this school.
Typography is the discipline of using type to set texts into a form that is pleasant to read.
Learning poetry is a good discipline for the memory.
For too long society has placed sole emphasis on children's test results, to the detriment of social discipline.
Linguistics is the discipline which aims to describe language.
The prefectural police chief tried to tighten his police officers' discipline.
He was subjected to strict military discipline while in the service.
School discipline is not as it should be.
What happens if a teacher can't keep discipline in the classroom?
Military discipline is literally rigid.
And there could be the twin attractions here of karate instilling discipline and control in their children.
Family and discipline are important life values.

2. subject


What's your favorite subject?
The war on Iraq is a volatile subject of political debate; any wrong word and a heated argument could spark.
We experience and understand the world through signals that are received by the senses and interpreted by the brain - and both stages are subject to distortion.
In English, the usual sentence structure is Subject - Verb - Object/Complement.
Some English speakers think that omission of the subject does not occur in their language, however, the subject of phrases like "thank you" or "bless you" is omitted.
Because this is such a highly technical subject, I would like to point out in advance the likelihood that some of what I'm about to say may include information that is incorrect.
By the way, do you know what a Shinto shrine is? "I've a little bit of knowledge on the subject. It's a religious facility where that which is the object of worship, that called the genius loci, is enshrined."
Pretty gem, isn't it? Not knowing if it was a suitable subject or not, but anyway I tried to get her interest that way.
Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.
We rarely hear, it has been said, of the combinations of masters, though frequently of those of the workman. But whoever imagines, upon this account, that masters rarely combine, is as ignorant of the world as of the subject.
Aiming at a fair selection, the test's subject will be the same for all of you scientists of the world: write a scientific publication in English!
'Verb' refers to the predicate verb. Predicate verbs change their form depending on the subject and the time expressed.
The graph in Figure 1 illustrates the differences in the means of total scores for white and black subject in each grade.
I quietly take out my camera, so as not to be noticed by my photographic subject, and peek through the finder.

English word "disciplina"(subject) occurs in sets:

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