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
- The text is self explanatory.
- There are self inflicted problems.
- A self powered ammeter is disclosed.
- It appears to be self aggrandizement.
- Satanism is the worshipping of the self.
- Chipmunks are fastidious in self grooming.
- The current self posits ideas for a future construction of the self.
- We believe in self control, self discipline, humbleness and loyalty.
- Humility consists in the knowledge of self and the forsaking of self.
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