What is the difference between i and self?
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The ninth letter of the .
The letter i with a tittle or dot above, in both the upper case and the lower case versions.
The imaginary unit; a fixed square root of -1. Graphically, i is shown on the vertical (y-axis) plane.
The current flow in a circuit in amperes.
A common variable name representing a generic index, especially in loops.
close front unrounded vowel.
cardinal number one.
Image:Latin I.png, Capital and lowercase versions of I , in normal and italic type
Image:Fraktur letter I.png, Uppercase and lowercase I in Fraktur
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(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 pronouns the difference between i and self
is that i is the speaker or writer, referred to as the grammatical subject, of a sentence while self is himself, herself, itself, themselves; that specific (person mentioned).As a noun self is
the subject of one's own experience of phenomena: perception, emotions, thoughts.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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Translingual
{{Basic Latin character info, previous=h, next=j, image= (wikipedia i)Etymology 1
Lower case variation of upper case (I), from (etyl) letter .Letter
See also
(Latn-script) Derived symbols * j * — IPA * — Turkish Similar and related symbols * — Greek * — Cyrillic I, used in Belarusian and Ukrainian * — Cyrillic palochka, used in the Caucasian languages * — Arabic (alif) * — Arabic numeral * — Cherokee (IPA: ??) (SAMPA: @~) * — Runic * — IPAEtymology 2
* abbreviation of (imaginary) * abbreviation of (index)Symbol
(Close front unrounded vowel) (head)Synonyms
* j * jEtymology 3
Lower case form of upper case roman numeral I, apparently derived from the shape of a notch scored across a tally stick.Alternative forms
* I,Cardinal number
See also
* Next: ii (2) *See also
{{Letter , page=I , NATO=India , Morse=·· , Character=I9 , Braille=? }}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.
