An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
SELF
self
(adjective) (used as a combining form) relating to--of or by or to or from or for--the self; “self-knowledge”; “self-proclaimed”; “self-induced”
self, ego
(noun) your consciousness of your own identity
self
(noun) a person considered as a unique individual; “one’s own self”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Proper noun
Self
A surname.
A freed slave surname.
An unincorporated community in Boone County, Arkansas, United States
Anagrams
• FLES, LSFE, elfs
Etymology
Pronoun
self
(obsolete) Himself, herself, itself, themselves; that specific (person mentioned).
(commercial or humorous) Myself.
Noun
self (plural selves or selfs)
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 his 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).
Antonyms
• (immunologic sense) nonself
Synonyms
• cyberself
• herself
• himself
• itself
• myself
• non-self
• one's self
• oneself
• ourselves
• technoself
• themselves
• thyself
• yourself
• yourselves
Verb
self (third-person singular simple present selfs, present participle selfing, simple past and past participle selfed)
(botany) To fertilise by the same individual; to self-fertilise or self-pollinate.
(botany) To fertilise by the same strain; to inbreed.
Antonyms
• outcross
Adjective
self
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).
Antonyms
• (immunologic sense) nonself
Anagrams
• FLES, LSFE, elfs
Source: Wiktionary
Self, a. Etym: [AS. self, seolf, sylf; akin to OS. self, OFries. self, D. zelf, G. selb, selber, selbst, Dan. selv. Sw. sjelf, Icel. sjalfr, Goth. silba. Cf. Selavage.]
Definition: 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.
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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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