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  SELF-:ESTEEM:, n.  An erroneous appraisement.


  SELF-:EVIDENT:, adj.  Evident to one's self and to nobody else.

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) : [ foldoc ]

Self

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.

http://www.sunlabs.com/research/self/)" rel="nofollow">Home (http://www.sunlabs.com/research/self/).

["Self: The Power of Simplicity", David Ungar
et al, SIGPLAN Notices 22(12):227-242,
OOPSLA '87, Dec 1987].

(1999-06-09)

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]


  Self \Self\ (s[e^]lf), 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.
     Selvage.]
     1. Same; particular; very; identical. [Obs., except in the
        compound selfsame.] ``On these self hills.'' --Sir. W.
        Raleigh.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              To shoot another arrow that self way
              Which you did shoot the first.        --Shak.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              At that self moment enters Palamon.   --Dryden.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. 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.
        [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]


  Self \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.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              A man's self may be the worst fellow to converse
              with in the world.                    --Pope.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              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.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. Hence, personal interest, or love of private interest;
        selfishness; as, self is his whole aim.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     3. Personification; embodiment. [Poetic.]
        [1913 Webster]
  
              She was beauty's self.                --Thomson.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     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.
           [1913 Webster]
  
     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.
           [1913 Webster]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) : [ web1913 ]


  Self \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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) : [ web1913 ]


  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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) : [ web1913 ]


  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.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 : [ wn ]


  self
       adj 1: combining form; oneself or itself; "self-control"
       2: used as a combining form; relating to--of or by or to or
          from or for--the self; "self-knowledge";
          "self-proclaimed"; "self-induced"
       n 1: your consciousness of your own identity [syn: ego]
       2: a person considered as a unique individual; "one's own self"
       [also: selves (pl)]

From Greek Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-el-ALL-2023-07-27 ]


  self
     Αγγλικά n.
     o εαυτός
     Αγγλικά pron.
     o εαυτός μου