different between self vs object

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

1. (obsolete) Himself, herself, itself, themselves; that specific (person mentioned).

   This argument was put forward by the defendant self.

2. (commercial or humorous) Myself.

   I made out a cheque, payable to self, which cheered me up somewhat.

Noun

self (plural selves or selfs)

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

2. 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.

3. 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.
4. Self-interest or personal advantage.
5. Identity or personality.
6. (botany) A seedling produced by self-pollination (plural selfs).
7. (botany) A flower having its colour uniform as opposed to variegated.
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).

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)

1. (botany) To fertilise by the same individual; to self-fertilise or self-pollinate.
2. (botany) To fertilise by the same strain; to inbreed.

Antonyms

• outcross

Adjective

self

1. 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

2. (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 […]

3. (obsolete) Belonging to oneself; own.
4. (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

1. (Internet slang) Abbreviation of selvfølgelig (“of course”).

Maltese

Etymology

From Arabic ?????? (salaf).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?lf/

Noun

self m

1. loan

Middle English

Alternative forms

• silf, sulf

Etymology

From Old English self, from Proto-Germanic *selbaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?lf/

Adjective

self

1. (the) (very/self) same, (the) aforementioned
2. Intensifies the pronoun or noun it follows or precedes; very
3. (+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

1. themself, themselves; a reflexive pronoun
2. 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)

1. (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

1. 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

1. self

Descendants

• Low German: sulv

English

Etymology

From Old French object, from Medieval Latin obiectum (“object”, literally “thrown against”), from obiectus, perfect passive participle of obici? (“I throw against”), from ob- (“against”) +? iaci? (“I throw”), as a gloss of Ancient Greek ???????????? (antikeímenon).

Pronunciation

• (noun)
  • (UK) enPR: ?b'j?kt, IPA^(key): /??b.d???kt/
  • (US) enPR: ?b'j?kt, IPA^(key): /??b.d???kt/

• (verb)
  • (UK, US) enPR: ?b-j?kt', IPA^(key): /?b?d???kt/
  • Rhymes: -?kt

Noun

object (plural objects)

1. A thing that has physical existence.
2. Objective; the goal, end or purpose of something.
   • 2000, Phyllis Barkas Goldman & John Grigni, Monkeyshines on Ancient Cultures

     The object of tlachtli was to keep the rubber ball from touching the ground while trying to push it to the opponent's endline.

4. (grammar) The noun phrase which is an internal complement of a verb phrase or a prepositional phrase. In a verb phrase with a transitive action verb, it is typically the receiver of the action.
5. A person or thing toward which an emotion is directed.

6. (object-oriented programming) An instantiation of a class or structure.
7. (category theory) An element within a category upon which functions operate. Thus, a category consists of a set of element objects and the functions that operate on them.
8. (obsolete) Sight; show; appearance; aspect.
   • c. 1610s, George Chapman, Batrachomyomachia

     He, advancing close / Up to the lake, past all the rest, arose / In glorious object.

Synonyms

• (thing): article, item, thing
• (person or thing toward which an emotion is directed): target
• See also Thesaurus:goal

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See also

• subject

References

• object on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

object (third-person singular simple present objects, present participle objecting, simple past and past participle objected)

1. (intransitive) To disagree with or oppose something or someone; (especially in a Court of Law) to raise an objection.

2. (transitive, obsolete) To offer in opposition as a criminal charge or by way of accusation or reproach; to adduce as an objection or adverse reason.
   • 1708, Joseph Addison, The Present State of the War, and the Necessity of an Augmentation

     There are others who will object the poverty of the nation.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To set before or against; to bring into opposition; to oppose.
   • early 17th century, Edward Fairfax, Godfrey of Bulloigne: or The recovery of Jerusalem.

     Of less account some knight thereto object, / Whose loss so great and harmful can not prove.

   • c. 1678, Richard Hooker, a sermon

     some strong impediment or other objecting itself

Derived terms

• objection

Translations

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle French [Term?], from Old French object, from Latin obiectum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?j?kt/, /??bj?kt/
• Hyphenation: ob?ject

Noun

object n (plural objecten, diminutive objectje n)

1. object, item
2. (grammar) object

Related terms

• objectief
• objectiviteit
• subject

Descendants

• Afrikaans: objek
• ? Indonesian: objek