English Dictionary

self

/sɛlf/

noun

One individual's personality, character, demeanor, or disposition. / The subject of one's own experience of phenomena: perception, emotions, thoughts.

She is known for her strong sense of self.

意味（1）

One individual's personality, character, demeanor, or disposition.

one's true self; one's better self; one's former self

意味（2）

The subject of one's own experience of phenomena: perception, emotions, thoughts.

Portia:

To these injunctions every one doth swear

Portia: To these injunctions every one doth swear That comes to hazard for my worthless self.

意味（3）

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.

意味（4）

Self-interest or personal advantage.

意味（5）

Identity or personality.

意味（6）

(botany) A seedling produced by self-pollination (plural selfs).

意味（7）

(botany) A flower having its colour uniform as opposed to variegated.

意味（8）

(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).

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.