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self | mine |

As a proper noun self

is .

As a verb mine is

.

As an adjective mine is

mined.

self

English

(wikipedia self)

Pronoun

(English Pronouns)
  • (obsolete) Himself, herself, itself, themselves; that specific (person mentioned).
  • This argument was put forward by the defendant self .
  • Myself.
  • I made out a cheque, payable to self , which cheered me up somewhat.

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • The subject of one's own experience of phenomena: perception, emotions, thoughts.
  • *
  • *: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.
  • *, chapter=16
  • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=The preposterous altruism too!
  • *{{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= Katrina G. Claw
  • , title= 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.}}
  • (lb) A seedling produced by self-pollination (plural selfs).
  • Derived terms

    * selfie

    See also

    * self- * person * I * ego

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (botany) To fertilise by the same individual; to self-fertilise or self-pollinate.
  • (botany) To fertilise by the same strain; to inbreed.
  • Antonyms

    * outcross

    Adjective

  • (obsolete) same
  • * 1605 , William Shakespeare, King Lear , I.i:
  • I am made of that self mettle as my sister.
  • * Sir Walter Raleigh
  • on these self hills
  • * Dryden
  • At that self moment enters Palamon.

    mine

    English

    Etymology 1

    (etyl) .

    Pronoun

  • My; belonging to me; that which belongs to me.
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  • #* (William Shakespeare), , Act V, Scene 1:
  • # (archaic)
  • #* 1862 February, , "(The Battle Hymn of the Republic)", in The Atlantic Monthly , Volume IX, Number LII, page 10,
  • Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: /
  • Usage notes
    * . * Historically, (term) came to be used only before a consonant sound, and later came to be used regardless of the following sound. Nonetheless, (term) still sees archaic pre-vocalic use, as may be seen in the 1862 quotation above.

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl), from (etyl) (m), from .

    Noun

    (en noun) view of an anti-tank landmine
  • An excavation from which ore or solid minerals are taken, especially one consisting of underground tunnels.
  • This diamond comes from a mine in South Africa.
    He came out of the coal mine with a face covered in black.
    Most coal and ore comes from open-pit mines nowadays.
  • (military) A passage dug toward or underneath enemy lines, which is then packed with explosives.
  • (military) A device intended to explode when stepped upon or touched, or when approached by a ship, vehicle, or person.
  • His left leg was blown off after he stepped on a mine .
    The warship was destroyed by floating mines .
  • (pyrotechnics) A type of firework that explodes on the ground, shooting sparks upward.
  • (entomology) The cavity made by a caterpillar while feeding inside a leaf.
  • Derived terms
    * anti-personnel mine * anti-tank mine * coal mine * gold mine, goldmine * land mine, landmine * limpet mine * magnetic mine * minefield * minelayer * mine of information * miner * mineral * mine run * mine shaft, mineshaft * minesweeper * mineworker * naval mine * open-pit mine * proximity mine * proxy mine * salt mine * strip-mine, strip mine

    Verb

    (min)
  • (ambitransitive) To remove (ore) from the ground.
  • Crater of Diamonds State Park is the only place in the world where visitors can mine their own diamonds.
  • To dig into, for ore or metal.
  • * Ure
  • Lead veins have been traced but they have not been mined .
  • To sow mines (the explosive devices) in (an area).
  • We had to slow our advance after the enemy mined the road ahead of us.
  • To damage (a vehicle or ship) with a mine (an explosive device).
  • To dig a tunnel or hole; to burrow in the earth.
  • the mining cony
  • To dig away, or otherwise remove, the substratum or foundation of; to lay a mine under; to sap; to undermine; hence, to ruin or destroy by slow degrees or secret means.
  • * Hayward
  • They mined the walls.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
  • Too lazy to cut down these immense trees, the spoilers had mined them, and placed a quantity of gunpowder in the cavity.
    Derived terms
    * miner * mining

    Etymology 3

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    Noun

    (en noun)
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