O.E.
self, seolf, sylf "one's own person, same," from P.Gmc.
*selbaz (cf. O.N.
sjalfr, O.Fris.
self, Du.
zelf, O.H.G.
selb, Ger.
selbst, Goth.
silba), P.Gmc.
*selbaz, from PIE
*sel-bho-, from base
*s(w)e- "separate, apart" (see
idiom).
"Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth." [Alan Watts]
Self-made man first recorded 1832, Amer.Eng.
a person's own body and personality
| Arabic: | نَفْس الإنسان وجَسَدُه |
| Chinese (Simplified): | 自身 |
| Chinese (Traditional): | 自身 |
| Czech: | osobnost |
| Danish: | selv |
| Dutch: | zelf |
| Estonian: | ise |
| Finnish: | minä |
| French: | la personne |
| German: | das Selbst |
| Greek: | εαυτός |
| Hungarian: | saját maga |
| Icelandic: | persónan sjálf |
| Indonesian: | diri |
| Italian: | io |
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| Japanese: | 自身 |
| Latvian: | pats |
| Lithuanian: | aš pats |
| Norwegian: | jeg, ens egen person, selvet |
| Polish: | własne ja |
| Portuguese (Brazil): | eu |
| Portuguese (Portugal): | o eu |
| Romanian: | eu, ego; sine(le) |
| Russian: | личность |
| Slovak: | osobnosť |
| Slovenian: | osebnost |
| Spanish: | uno mismo |
| Swedish: | jag |
| Turkish: | kendi, ben(lik) |
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one's own personal interests or advantage
Example:
He always thinks first of self.
| Arabic: | مَصْلَحَةٌ ذاتِيَّه |
| Chinese (Simplified): | 自身利益 |
| Chinese (Traditional): | 自身利益 |
| Czech: | vlastní osoba |
| Danish: | sig selv |
| Dutch: | zichzelf |
| Estonian: | ise, enese |
| Finnish: | itse |
| French: | soi-même |
| German: | das eigene Ich |
| Greek: | προσωπικό συμφέρον |
| Hungarian: | önmaga |
| Icelandic: | (maður) sjálfur |
| Indonesian: | pribadinya |
| Italian: | se stesso*, sé |
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| Japanese: | 自分の事 |
| Latvian: | pats |
| Lithuanian: | savo |
| Norwegian: | seg selv |
| Polish: | własny interes |
| Portuguese (Brazil): | interesse pessoal |
| Portuguese (Portugal): | em si |
| Romanian: | sine (însuşi) |
| Russian: | собственные интересы |
| Slovak: | vlastná osoba |
| Slovenian: | sam nase |
| Spanish: | sí mismo |
| Swedish: | sig själv |
| Turkish: | kişisel çıkar, kendi menfaati |
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showing that the person or thing acting is acting upon himself or itself, as in
self-respect
| Arabic: | ذاتي |
| Chinese (Simplified): | 自我… |
| Chinese (Traditional): | 自我… |
| Czech: | sebe- |
| Danish: | selv- |
| Dutch: | zelf© |
| Estonian: | enese- |
| Finnish: | itse- |
| French: | (respect) de soi |
| German: | Selbst-… |
| Greek: | αυτο- (ως α΄ συνθ.), που δρα για τον εαυτό του |
| Hungarian: | ön- |
| Icelandic: | sjálf-, sjálfs- |
| Indonesian: | diri sendiri |
| Italian: | auto-, di sé* |
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| Japanese: | 自身の－ |
| Korean: | 「자기」라는 뜻의 연결형 |
| Lithuanian: | savi- |
| Norwegian: | selv- |
| Polish: | samo- |
| Portuguese (Brazil): | auto- |
| Portuguese (Portugal): | auto- |
| Romanian: | (respect) de sine |
| Russian: | само- |
| Slovak: | seba- |
| Slovenian: | samo(spoštovanje) |
| Spanish: | propio, a sí mismo |
| Swedish: | själv- |
| Turkish: | kendi |
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showing that the thing is acting automatically, as in
self-closing doors
| Arabic: | ذاتي الحُدوث، أوتوماتيكي |
| Chinese (Simplified): | 自幼的 |
| Chinese (Traditional): | 自幼的 |
| Czech: | samo- |
| Danish: | selv- |
| Dutch: | automatisch |
| Estonian: | ise- |
| Finnish: | itse- |
| French: | auto-… automatique |
| German: | Selbst-… |
| Greek: | που γίνεται αυτόματα |
| Hungarian: | ön- |
| Icelandic: | sjálfvirkur, sjálf- |
| Indonesian: | otomatis |
| Italian: | auto- |
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| Japanese: | 自動の－ |
| Korean: | 「자동(의)」라는 뜻의 연결형 |
| Lithuanian: | savaime |
| Norwegian: | selv-, automatisk |
| Polish: | samo- |
| Portuguese (Brazil): | auto- |
| Portuguese (Portugal): | auto- |
| Romanian: | auto-… ; automatic |
| Russian: | автоматически |
| Slovak: | samo- |
| Slovenian: | samodejen … |
| Spanish: | auto- |
| Swedish: | automatisk, själv- |
| Turkish: | otomatik |
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the union of elements(as body, emotions, thoughts, and sensations) that constitute the individuality and identity of a person
self from nonself>
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Self language
A small, dynamically typed object-oriented language, based purely on prototypes and delegation. Self was developed by the Self Group at Sun Microsystems Laboratories, Inc. and Stanford University. It is an experimental exploratory programming language.
Release 2.0 introduces full source-level debugging of optimised code, adaptive optimisation to shorten compile pauses, lightweight threads within Self, support for dynamically linking foreign functions, changing programs within Self and the ability to run the experimental Self graphical browser under OpenWindows. Designed for expressive power and malleability, Self combines a pure, prototype-based object model with uniform access to state and behaviour. Unlike other languages, Self allows objects to inherit state and to change their patterns of inheritance dynamically. Self's customising compiler can generate very efficient code compared to other dynamically-typed object-oriented languages.
Version: 3.0 runs on Sun-3 (no optimiser) and Sun-4.
Home.
["Self: The Power of Simplicity", David Ungar et al, SIGPLAN Notices 22(12):227-242, OOPSLA '87, Dec 1987].
(1999-06-09)
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Self
Self\, a. Having its own or a single nature or character, as in color, composition, etc., without addition or change; unmixed; as, a self bow, one made from a single piece of wood; self flower or plant, one which is wholly of one color; self-colored.
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Self
Self\, a. [AS. self, seolf, sylf; akin to OS. self, OFries. self, D. zelf, G. selb, selber, selbst, Dan. selv. Sw. sjelf, Icel. sj[=a]lfr, Goth. silba. Cf. Selavage.] Same; particular; very; identical. [Obs., except in the compound selfsame.] "On these self hills." --Sir. W. Raleigh. To shoot another arrow that self way Which you did shoot the first. --Shak. At that self moment enters Palamon. --Dryden.
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Self\, n.; pl. Selves. 1. The individual as the object of his own reflective consciousness; the man viewed by his own cognition as the subject of all his mental phenomena, the agent in his own activities, the subject of his own feelings, and the possessor of capacities and character; a person as a distinct individual; a being regarded as having personality. "Those who liked their real selves." --Addison. A man's self may be the worst fellow to converse with in the world. --Pope. 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. --Sir W. Hamilton. 2. Hence, personal interest, or love of private interest; selfishness; as, self is his whole aim. 3. Personification; embodiment. [Poetic.] She was beauty's self. --Thomson. Note: Self is united to certain personal pronouns and pronominal adjectives to express emphasis or distinction. Thus, for emphasis; I myself will write; I will examine for myself; thou thyself shalt go; thou shalt see for thyself; you yourself shall write; you shall see for yourself; he himself shall write; he shall examine for himself; she herself shall write; she shall examine for herself; the child itself shall be carried; it shall be present itself. It is also used reflexively; as, I abhor myself; thou enrichest thyself; he loves himself; she admires herself; it pleases itself; we walue ourselves; ye hurry yourselves; they see themselves. Himself, herself, themselves, are used in the nominative case, as well as in the objective. "Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples." --John iv. 2. Note: self is used in the formation of innumerable compounds, usually of obvious signification, in most of which it denotes either the agent or the object of the action expressed by the word with which it is joined, or the person in behalf of whom it is performed, or the person or thing to, for, or towards whom or which a quality, attribute, or feeling expressed by the following word belongs, is directed, or is exerted, or from which it proceeds; or it denotes the subject of, or object affected by, such action, quality, attribute, feeling, or the like; as, self-abandoning, self-abnegation, self-abhorring, self-absorbed, self-accusing, self-adjusting, self-balanced, self-boasting, self-canceled, self-combating, self-commendation, self-condemned, self-conflict, self-conquest, self-constituted, self-consumed, self-contempt, self-controlled, self-deceiving, self-denying, self-destroyed, self-disclosure, self-display, self-dominion, self-doomed, self-elected, self-evolved, self-exalting, self-excusing, self-exile, self-fed, self-fulfillment, self-governed, self-harming, self-helpless, self-humiliation, self-idolized, self-inflicted, self-improvement, self-instruction, self-invited, self-judging, self-justification, self-loathing, self-loving, self-maintenance, self-mastered, self-nourishment, self-perfect, self-perpetuation, self-pleasing, self-praising, self-preserving, self-questioned, self-relying, self-restraining, self-revelation, self-ruined, self-satisfaction, self-support, self-sustained, self-sustaining, self-tormenting, self-troubling, self-trust, self-tuition, self-upbraiding, self-valuing, self-worshiping, and many others.
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