Noun

(en-noun)

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.

*, chapter=16

, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=The preposterous altruism too!

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(lb) A seedling produced by self-pollination (plural selfs).

Noun

(en noun)

A sand dune that elongates parallel to the prevailing wind.

* 1954 , Bulletin of the Research Council of Israel , Volume 4, page 196,

Such seifs have a somewhat zig-zag form instead of a fairly straight line.

On the top of seifs' small transverse dunelets are very often found, and these may be likened to almost straightened-out barchans.On the top of the ' seif they form a wave-like pattern with a fairly defined "wavelength".

* 1973 , Ralph Alger Bagnold, The Physics of Blown Sand and Desert Dunes , page 224,

Though the actual transition forms suggested in Fig. 76 do exist and have been examined by the author, the above tentative explanation of the growth of a seif dune chain should certainly not be taken as implying that all such chains have originated as barchans.

* 1980 , P. Turner, Continental Red Beds , page 80,

Seifs are longitudinal forms elongated parallel to the prevailing wind direction.

* {{quote-journal, 2009, date=February 26, Bruno Andreotti et al., Giant aeolian dune size determined by the average depth of the atmospheric boundary layer, Nature, url=, doi=10.1038/nature07787, volume=457, issue=7233, pages=1120-1123

, passage=Tsoar, H. Dynamic processes acting on a longitudinal (seif ) sand dune . }}