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- 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.
"a self bow: one made from a single piece of wood"
- 2 Same, identical. obsolete
"I owe you much, and, like a wilful youth / That which I owe is lost; but if you please / To shoot another arrow that self way / Which you did shoot the first, I do not doubt, / As I will watch the aim, or to find both, / Or bring your latter hazard back again, / And thankfully rest debtor for the first."
- 3 Belonging to oneself; own. obsolete
- 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).
"Similarity profiles between helper T cell epitopes (of self or microbial antigens and allergens) and human or microbial SWISSPROT collections were produced. For each antigen, both collections yielded largely overlapping profiles, demonstrating that self-nonself discrimination does not rely on qualitative features that distinguish human from microbial peptides. However, epitopes whose probability of mimicry with self or nonself prevails are, respectively, tolerated or immunodominant and coexist within the same (auto-)antigen regardless of its self/nonself nature. Epitopes (on self and nonself antigens) can cross-stimulate T cells at increasing potency as their similarity with nonself augments."
- 1 (used as a combining form) relating to — of or by or to or from or for — the self wordnet
- 1 A surname.
"Kansas has self-imposed a four-game suspension for head coach Bill Self and assistant Kurtis Townsend to begin this season along with several other sanctions, the school announced Wednesday."
- 2 A freed slave surname originating as an occupation.
- 3 An unincorporated community in Boone County, Arkansas, United States.
- 1 One individual's personality, character, demeanor, or disposition.
"She remained her usual cheerful self despite recent setbacks"
- 2 your consciousness of your own identity wordnet
- 3 The subject of one's own experience of phenomena: perception, emotions, thoughts.
"Portia: To these injunctions every one doth swear That comes to hazard for my worthless self."
- 4 a person considered as a unique individual wordnet
- 5 An individual person as the object of the person's own reflective consciousness (plural selves).
"The self, the I, is recognized in every act of intelligence as the subject to which that act belongs. It is I that perceive, I that imagine, I that remember, I that attend, I that compare, I that feel, I that will, I that am conscious."
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- 6 Self-interest or personal advantage.
- 7 A seedling produced by self-pollination (plural selfs).
- 8 A flower having its colour uniform as opposed to variegated.
- 9 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).
"Similarity profiles between helper T cell epitopes (of self or microbial antigens and allergens) and human or microbial SWISSPROT collections were produced. For each antigen, both collections yielded largely overlapping profiles, demonstrating that self-nonself discrimination does not rely on qualitative features that distinguish human from microbial peptides. [...] Epitopes (on self and nonself antigens) can cross-stimulate T cells at increasing potency as their similarity with nonself augments."
- 1 Himself, herself, itself, themself, themselves; that specific (person mentioned). obsolete, rare
"This argument was put forward by the defendant self."
- 2 Myself, oneself. humorous
"I made out a cheque, payable to self, which cheered me up somewhat."
- 1 To fertilize by the same individual; to self-fertilize or self-pollinate.
- 2 To fertilize by the same strain; to inbreed.
Etymology
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.
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.
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.
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.
* From self. A surname taken up by freed slaves, who have become of themselves, they being self-owned.
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