self
IPA: sˈɛɫf
noun
- One individual's personality, character, demeanor, or disposition.
- The subject of one's own experience of phenomena: perception, emotions, thoughts.
- An individual person as the object of the person's own reflective consciousness (plural selves).
- Self-interest or personal advantage.
- Identity or personality.
- (botany) A seedling produced by self-pollination (plural selfs).
- (botany) A flower having its colour uniform as opposed to variegated.
- (molecular biology, immunology) Any molecule, cell, or tissue of an organism's own (belonging to the self), as opposed to a foreign (nonself) molecule, cell, or tissue (for example, infective, allogenic, or xenogenic).
- A surname.
- A freed slave surname originating as an occupation.
- An unincorporated community in Boone County, Arkansas, United States
verb
- (botany) To fertilize by the same individual; to self-fertilize or self-pollinate.
- (botany) To fertilize by the same strain; to inbreed.
adjective
- Having its own or a single nature or character throughout, as in colour, composition, etc., without addition or change; of the same kind; unmixed.
- (obsolete) Same, identical.
- (obsolete) Belonging to oneself; own.
- (molecular biology, immunology) Of or relating to any molecule, cell, or tissue of an organism's own (belonging to the self), as opposed to a foreign (nonself) molecule, cell, or tissue (for example, infective, allogenic, or xenogenic).
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Examples of "self" in Sentences
- **tellz self tu leeve sum fur odders** **ignoars self** Nom nom nom!
- *unstiks self frum ceiling, drops, unharmd, onto carpit; begins grooming self*
- * Goes to kill self, realises there's not even enough money to buy rope to hang self*
- The means for this suppression of self _depends entirely on the development of the consciousness of self_.
- The impossibility of defining objects in terms of relativity to a finite self, conducts dialectically to the conception of the _absolute self_.
- It all depends on what the man is _within_ himself, his intrinsic character, his _real self_; and no matter where he goes, that character, that self, goes with him.
- [34] I mean by the "lower self," not the animal base of one's existence, but the ordinary self _claiming to be the true self_, and so rising in rebellion against its lawful lord.
- Does it not mean a deeper heart, the heart of your own self, not of your body? of the _self_ that suffers, not pain, but misery? of the self whose end is not comfort, or enjoyment, but blessedness, yea, ecstasy?
- What a contrast have we often thought he presents to some whose physiognomy looks like a piece of harsh handwriting, in which we can decipher nothing but _self, self, self_; who seem, both at home and abroad, to be always on the watch against any infringement of their dignity.
- If the temporary coalition of conscious states that is winning at the moment is what I am, is the self, each temporal chunk of ˜self™ is likely to be found in different parts of the brain from other such chunks and there will be many NCCs of unified consciousness in many different places.
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