self

Signification

Noun

1. One individual's personality, character, demeanor, or disposition.
2. The subject of one's own experience of phenomena: perception, emotions, thoughts.
3. An individual person as the object of the person's own reflective consciousness (plural selves).
4. Self-interest or personal advantage.
5. Identity or personality.
6. A seedling produced by self-pollination (plural selfs).
7. A flower having its colour uniform as opposed to variegated.
8. 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).

Pron

1. (obsolete) Himself, herself, itself, themselves; that specific (person mentioned).
2. Myself.

Verb

1. To fertilize by the same individual; to self-fertilize or self-pollinate.
2. To fertilize by the same strain; to inbreed.

Adj

1. Having its own or a single nature or character throughout, as in colour, composition, etc., without addition or change; of the same kind; unmixed.
2. (obsolete) Same, identical.
3. (obsolete) Belonging to oneself; own.
4. 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).

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/sɛlf/

Étymologie

From Middle English self, silf, sulf, from Old English self, seolf, sylf, from Proto-Germanic *selbaz. Cognates include Gothic 𐍃𐌹𐌻𐌱𐌰 (silba), German selbst and Dutch zelf.