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inner
English
Etymology
From Middle English inner, ynner, ynnere, from Old English innera, comparative of inne (“within”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?en.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /??n?/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??n?/
- Rhymes: -?n?(?)
Adjective
inner (not generally comparable, comparative innermore, superlative innermost)
- Being or occurring (farther) inside, situated farther in, located (situated) or happening on the inside of something, situated within or farther within contained within something.
- Close to the centre, located near or closer to center.
- Inside or closer to the inside of the body.
- Of mind or spirit, relating to the mind or spirit, to spiritual or mental processes, mental, spiritual, relating to somebody's private feelings or happening in somebody's mind, existing as an often repressed part of one's psychological makeup.
- 1973, John Lennon, Out the Blue
- I will try to express. My inner feeling and thankfulness. For showing me the meaning of success
- Not obvious, private, not expressed, not apparent, hidden, less apparent, deeper, obscure; innermost or essential; needing to be examined closely or thought about in order to be seen or understood.
- Privileged, more or most privileged, more or most influential, intimate, exclusive, more important, more intimate, private, secret, confined to an exclusive group, exclusive to a center; especially a center of influence being near a center especially of influence.
Synonyms
- interior
- internal
Antonyms
- outer
Derived terms
- innerly
- innerness
Translations
Noun
inner (plural inners)
- An inner part.
- (South Africa) A duvet, excluding the cover.
- A forward who plays in or near the center of the field.
- (cricket) A thin glove worn inside batting gloves or wicket-keeping gloves.
- (Britain, politics) One who supports remaining in the European Union.
- (military, firearms) The 2nd circle on a target, between the bull (or bull's eye) and magpie.
Antonyms
- (One who supports remaining in the EU): outer
Translations
Anagrams
- niner, renin
Dutch
Etymology
From innen +? -er.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: in?ner
Noun
inner m (plural inners, diminutive innertje n)
- collector (of taxes)
Derived terms
- belastinginner
German
Etymology 1
From Old High German innar.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??n?/
Adjective
inner- (comparative nonexistent, superlative am innersten)
- inner
Declension
Antonyms
- äußer-
Derived terms
- Inneres
- innerlich
Related terms
- zuinnerst
Preposition
inner (+ dative)
- within
Synonyms
- innert
- innerhalb
Etymology 2
Contraction of in der
Contraction
inner f
- (colloquial) in the
Further reading
- “inner” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “inner” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
Pennsylvania German
Etymology
From Old High German innar. Compare German inner, English inner.
Adjective
inner
- inner
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self
English
Alternative forms
- (obsolete) selfe,
- (obsolete, rare) silf, silfe
Etymology
From Middle English self, silf, sulf, from Old English self, seolf, sylf, from Proto-Germanic *selbaz.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /s?lf/
- Rhymes: -?lf
Pronoun
self
- (obsolete) Himself, herself, itself, themselves; that specific (person mentioned).
- This argument was put forward by the defendant self.
- (commercial or humorous) Myself.
- I made out a cheque, payable to self, which cheered me up somewhat.
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.
- c. 1596-97, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act II scene ix[1]:
- Portia:
- To these injunctions every one doth swear
- That comes to hazard for my worthless self.
- Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.
- c. 1596-97, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act II scene ix[1]:
- An individual person as the object of the person's own reflective consciousness (plural selves).
- 1859, Sir William Hamilton, Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic Lecture IX
- 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.
- 1859, Sir William Hamilton, Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic Lecture IX
- 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
- (immunology) nonself
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- self-
- person
- I
- ego
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.
- a self bow: one made from a single piece of wood
- a self flower or plant: one which is wholly of one colour
- (obsolete) Same, identical.
- c. 1596-97, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act I scene i[2]:
- I owe you much, and, like a wilful youth
- That which I owe is lost; but if you please
- To shoot another arrow that self way
- Which you did shoot the first, I do not doubt,
- As I will watch the aim, or to find both,
- Or bring your latter hazard back again,
- And thankfully rest debtor for the first.
- c. 1605, William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act I scene i[3]:
- I am made of that self mettle as my sister.
- But were it granted, yet the heighth of these Mountains is far under the supposed place of Paradise; and on these self Hills the Air is so thin […]
- 1700, John Dryden, Palamon and Arcite
- At that self moment enters Palamon
The gate of Venus […]
- At that self moment enters Palamon
- c. 1596-97, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act I scene i[2]:
- (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
Further reading
- self in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- self in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- Self in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
- “self”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).
Anagrams
- FLES, LSFE, elfs
Danish
Alternative forms
- self.
Adverb
self
- (Internet slang) Abbreviation of selvfølgelig (“of course”).
Maltese
Etymology
From Arabic ?????? (salaf).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /s?lf/
Noun
self m
- loan
Middle English
Alternative forms
- silf, sulf
Etymology
From Old English self, from Proto-Germanic *selbaz.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?s?lf/
Adjective
self
- (the) (very/self) same, (the) aforementioned
- Intensifies the pronoun or noun it follows or precedes; very
- (+genitive) own
Descendants
- English: self
- Scots: self, sel
References
- “self, adj., n., & pron.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-31.
Pronoun
self
- themself, themselves; a reflexive pronoun
- that, this
Descendants
- English: self (obsolete in most pronominal senses)
- Scots: self, sel
References
- “self, adj., n., & pron.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-31.
Noun
self (plural selfs)
- (the) same thing, (the) aforementioned thing
References
- “self, adj., n., & pron.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-31.
Old English
Alternative forms
- seolf, sylf
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *selbaz.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /self/, [se?f]
Pronoun
self
- self
Derived terms
- selfl??
Descendants
- Middle English: self, silf, sulf
- English: self
- Scots: self
Old Saxon
Alternative forms
- selvo
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *selbaz.
Pronoun
self
- self
Descendants
- Low German: sulv
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