Elf vs Self - What's the difference?
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(Norse mythology) A luminous spirit presiding over nature and fertility and dwelling in the world of (Elfland). Compare angel, nymph, fairy.
* Shakespeare
Any from a race of mythical, supernatural beings resembling but seen as distinct from human beings. Usually skilled in magic or spellcrafting; sometimes depicted as clashing with dwarves, especially in modern fantasy literature.
(fantasy) Any of the magical, typically forest-guarding races bearing some similarities to the Norse (through Tolkien's Eldar)
A very diminutive person; a dwarf.
(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 nouns the difference between elf and self
is that elf is a luminous spirit presiding over nature and fertility and dwelling in the world of Álfheim (Elfland). Compare angel, nymph, fairy while self is the subject of one's own experience of phenomena: perception, emotions, thoughts.As an initialism ELF
is initialism of w:Earth Liberation Front|Earth Liberation Front|lang=en a radical environmentalism group.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.As an adjective self is
same.As a proper noun Self is
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English
Noun
(elves) (wikipedia elf)- Every elf , and fairy sprite, / Hop as light as bird from brier.
Derived terms
* elfin * elfinwood * elfish * Elfland * elflock * elven * elvish * light elves * dark elvesSee also
* fay * fairy * brownie * dwarf * hobbitReferences
* Marshall Jones Company (1930). Mythology of All Races'' Series, Volume 2 ''Eddic , Great Britain: Marshall Jones Company, 1930, pp. 220-221.Anagrams
* English nouns with irregular plurals ----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.
