Auto vs Self - What's the difference?
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automatic
An automobile.
A .
A setting for automatic operation.
A writ.
An automatic gearbox / transmission.
A car with an automatic gearbox / transmission.
(obsolete) Himself, herself, itself, themselves; that specific (person mentioned).
Myself.
The subject of one's own experience of phenomena: perception, emotions, thoughts.
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*: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.
An individual person as the object of his own reflective consciousness (plural selves).
* (1788-1856)
*: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.
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, title= (lb) A seedling produced by self-pollination (plural selfs).
(botany) To fertilise by the same individual; to self-fertilise or self-pollinate.
(botany) To fertilise by the same strain; to inbreed.
(obsolete) same
* 1605 , William Shakespeare, King Lear , I.i:
* Sir Walter Raleigh
* Dryden
As adjectives the difference between auto and self
is that auto is automatic of a gearbox / transmission while self is same.As nouns the difference between auto and self
is that auto is an automobile while self is the subject of one's own experience of phenomena: perception, emotions, thoughts.As proper nouns the difference between auto and self
is that auto is an unincorporated community in West Virginia while Self is {{surname}.As a pronoun self is
himself, herself, itself, themselves; that specific (person mentioned).As a verb self is
to fertilise by the same individual; to self-fertilise or self-pollinate.auto
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) , metanalyzed from (auto-) in words such as (automatic), (autopilot), and (automobile).Adjective
(-)Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (sense) automobile, car, motorcar; motor * (setting for automatic operation) automaticAntonyms
* (setting for automatic operation) manualDerived terms
* autorackSee also
* auto-Etymology 2
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* (l)Anagrams
* ----self
English
(wikipedia self)Pronoun
(English Pronouns)- This argument was put forward by the defendant self .
- I made out a cheque, payable to self , which cheered me up somewhat.
Noun
(en-noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=The preposterous altruism too!
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Rapid Evolution in Eggs and Sperm, volume=101, issue=3, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=In plants, the ability to recognize self from nonself plays an important role in fertilization, because self-fertilization will result in less diverse offspring than fertilization with pollen from another individual.}}
Derived terms
* selfieSee also
* self- * person * I * egoVerb
(en verb)Antonyms
* outcrossAdjective
- I am made of that self mettle as my sister.
- on these self hills
- At that self moment enters Palamon.