Automatic vs Self - What's the difference?
automatic | self |
Capable of operating without external control or intervention.
Done out of habit or without conscious thought.
(of a firearm such as a machine gun) Firing continuously as long as the trigger is pressed until ammunition is exhausted.
(computing, of a local variable) Automatically added to and removed from the stack during the course of function calls.
(maths, of a group) Having one or more finite-state automata
A car with automatic transmission.
A semi-automatic firearm.
(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
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* Dryden
As an adjective automatic
is capable of operating without external control or intervention.As a noun automatic
is a car with automatic transmission.As a proper noun self is
.automatic
English
Alternative forms
* automatickAdjective
(-)- The automatic clothes washer was a great labor-saving device
- The reaction was automatic : flight!
Synonyms
* (without conscious thought) perfunctory, thoughtless, instinctiveAntonyms
* (capable of operating without external control) manual * (without conscious thought) voluntaryDerived terms
* automatically * automaticity * automatic transmission * automaticalNoun
(en noun)- I never learned to drive a stick. I can only drive an automatic .
Antonyms
* (car with automatic transmission) stick, stickshift; manual transmission; standard transmissionself
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.