How to pronounce “self”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• 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 the person's own reflective consciousness (plural selves).
• Self-interest or personal advantage.
• (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).
• [Verb]
• (botany) To fertilize by the same individual; to self-fertilize or self-pollinate.
• (botany) To fertilize by the same strain; to inbreed.
• [Adjective]
• 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).

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