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Self
/sɛlf/
One individual's personality, character, demeanor, or disposition.
📖 Definitions of "Self"
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One individual's personality, character, demeanor, or disposition.
"one's true self; one's better self; one's former self"
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The subject of one's own experience of phenomena: perception, emotions, thoughts.
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An individual person as the object of his own reflective consciousness (plural selves).
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Self-interest or personal advantage.
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To fertilise by the same individual; to self-fertilise or self-pollinate.
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To fertilise by the same strain; to inbreed.
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Having its own or a single nature or character throughout, as in colour, composition, etc., without addition or change; of the same kind; unmixed.
"a self bow: one made from a single piece of wood"
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Same, identical.
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Belonging to oneself; own.
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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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Himself, herself, itself, themselves; that specific (person mentioned).
"This argument was put forward by the defendant self."
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Myself.
"I made out a cheque, payable to self, which cheered me up somewhat."
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