Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter S - Page 45
Self-perplexed (a.) Perplexed by doubts originating in one's own mind.
Self-posited (a.) Disposed or arranged by an action originating in one's self or in itself.
These molecular blocks of salt are self-posited. -- Tyndall.
Self-positing (a.) The act of disposing or arranging one's self or itself.
The self-positing of the molecules. -- R. Watts.
Self-possessed (a.) Composed or tranquill in mind, manner, etc.; undisturbed.
Self-possessed (a.) In full control of your faculties; "the witness remained collected throughout the cross-examination"; "perfectly poised and sure of himself"; "more self-contained and more dependable than many of the early frontiersmen"; "strong and self-possessed in the face of trouble" [syn: collected, equanimous, poised, self-collected, self-contained, self-possessed].
Self-possession (n.) The possession of one's powers; calmness; self-command; presence of mind; composure.
Self-possession (n.) The trait of resolutely controlling your own behavior [syn: self-control, self-possession, possession, willpower, will power, self-command, self-will].
Self-praise (n.) Praise of one's self.
Self-praise (n.) Speaking of yourself in superlatives [syn: boast, boasting, self-praise, jactitation].
Self-preservation (n.) The preservation of one's self from destruction or injury.
Self-preservation (n.) Preservation of yourself from harm; a natural or instinctive tendency.
Self-propagating (a.) Propagating by one's self or by itself.
Self-registering (a.) Registering itself; -- said of any instrument so contrived as to record its own indications of phenomena, whether continuously or at stated times, as at the maxima and minima of variations; as, a self-registering anemometer or barometer.
Self-regulated (a.) Regulated by one's self or by itself.
Self-regulative (a.) Tending or serving to regulate one's self or itself. -- Whewell.
Self-reliance (n.) Reliance on one's own powers or judgment; self-trust.
Self-reliance (n.) Personal independence [syn: autonomy, self-direction, self-reliance, self-sufficiency].
Self-reliant (a.) Reliant upon one's self; trusting to one's own powers or judgment.
Self-reliant (a.) (Of persons) Free from external control and constraint in e.g. action and judgment [syn: autonomous, self-directed, self-reliant].
Self-renunciation (n.) The act of renouncing, or setting aside, one's own wishes, claims, etc.; self-sacrifice.
Self-renunciation (n.) Renunciation of your own interests in favor of the interests of others [syn: abnegation, self-abnegation, denial, self-denial, self-renunciation].
Self-repellency (n.) The quality or state of being self-repelling.
Self-repelling (a.) Made up of parts, as molecules or atoms, which mutually repel each other; as, gases are self-repelling.
Self-repetition (n.) Repetition of one's self or of one's acts; the saying or doing what one has already said or done.
Self-reproach (n.) The act of reproaching one's self; censure by one's own conscience.
Self-reproach (n.) A feeling of deep regret (usually for some misdeed) [syn: compunction, remorse, self-reproach].
Self-reproach (n.) The act of blaming yourself [syn: self-reproach, self-reproof].
Self-reproached (a.) Reproached by one's own conscience or judgment.
Self-reproaching (a.) Reproaching one's self. -- Self`-re*proach"ing*ly, adv.
Self-reproof (n.) The act of reproving one's self; censure of one's conduct by one's own judgment.
Self-reproved (a.) Reproved by one's own conscience or one's own sense of guilt.
Self-reproving (a.) Reproving one's self; reproving by consciousness of guilt.
Self-reprovingly (adv.) In a self-reproving way.
Self-repugnant (a.) Self-contradictory; inconsistent. -- Brougham.
Self-repulsive (a.) Self-repelling.
Self-respect (n.) Respect for one's self; regard for one's character; laudable self-esteem.
Self-respect (n.) The quality of being worthy of esteem or respect; "it was beneath his dignity to cheat"; "showed his true dignity when under pressure" [syn: dignity, self-respect, self-regard, self-worth].
Self-restrained (a.) Restrained by one's self or itself; restrained by one's own power or will.
Self-restraint (n.) Restraint over one's self; self-control; self-command.
Self-restraint (n.) Exhibiting restraint imposed on the self; "an effective temperateness in debate" [syn: self-restraint, temperateness].
Self-reverence (n.) A reverent respect for one's self. -- Tennyson.
Self-righteous (a.) Righteous in one's own esteem; pharisaic.
Self-righteous (a.) Excessively or hypocritically pious; "a sickening sanctimonious smile" [syn: holier-than-thou, pietistic, pietistical, pharisaic, pharisaical, sanctimonious, self-righteous].
Self-righteousness (n.) The quality or state of being self-righteous; pharisaism.
Self-sacrifice (n.) The act of sacrificing one's self, or one's interest, for others; self-devotion.
Self-sacrifice (n.) Acting with less concern for yourself than for the success of the joint activity [syn: selflessness, self-sacrifice].
Self-sacrificing (a.) Yielding up one's own interest, ffeelings, etc; sacrificing one's self.
Self-sacrificing (a.) Willing to deprive yourself [syn: self-denying, self-giving, self-sacrificing].
Selfsame (a.) Precisely the same; the very same; identical.
His servant was healed in the selfsame hour. -- Matt. viii. 13.
Selfsame (a.) Being the exact same one; not any other:; "this is the identical room we stayed in before"; "the themes of his stories are one and the same"; "saw the selfsame quotation in two newspapers"; "on this very spot"; "the very thing he said yesterday"; "the very man I want to see" [syn: identical, selfsame(a), very(a)].
Self-satisfaction (n.) The quality or state of being self-satisfied.
Self-satisfaction (n.) The feeling you have when you are satisfied with yourself; "his complacency was absolutely disgusting" [syn: complacency, complacence, self-complacency, self-satisfaction].
Self-satisfied (a.) Satisfied with one's self or one's actions; self-complacent.
Self-satisfied (a.) Marked by excessive complacency or self-satisfaction; "a smug glow of self-congratulation" [syn: smug, self-satisfied].
Self-satisfied (a.) Contented to a fault with oneself or one's actions; "he had become complacent after years of success"; "his self-satisfied dignity" [syn: complacent, self-satisfied, self-complacent].
Self-satisfying (a.) Giving satisfaction to one's self.
Self-seeker (n.) One who seeks only his own interest, advantage, or pleasure.
Self-seeker (n.) A person who places expediency above principle [syn: opportunist, self-seeker].
Self-seeking (a.) Seeking one's own interest or happiness; selfish. -- Arbuthnot.
Self-seeking (n.) The act or habit of seeking one's own interest or happiness; selfishness.
Self-seeking (a.) Interested only in yourself [syn: self-serving, self-seeking].
Self-seeking (n.) Taking advantage of opportunities without regard for the consequences for others [syn: opportunism, self-interest, self-seeking, expedience].
Self-slaughter (n.) Suicide. -- Shak.
Self-sufficiency (n.) The quality or state of being self-sufficient.
Self-sufficiency (n.) Personal independence [syn: autonomy, self-direction, self-reliance, self-sufficiency].
Self-sufficient (a.) Sufficient for one's self without external aid or cooperation.
Neglect of friends can never be proved rational till we prove the person using it omnipotent and self-sufficient, and such as can never need any mortal assistance. -- South.
Self-sufficient (a.) Having an overweening confidence in one's own abilities or worth; hence, haughty; overbearing. "A rash and self-sufficient manner." -- I. Watts.
Self-sufficient (a.) Able to provide for your own needs without help from
others; "a self-sufficing economic unit" [syn: self-sufficient, self-sufficing, self-sustaining].
Self-sufficing (a.) Sufficing for one's self or for itself, without needing external aid; self-sufficient. -- Self`-suf*fi"cing*ness, n. -- J. C. Shairp.
Self-sufficing (a.) Able to provide for your own needs without help from others; "a self-sufficing economic unit" [syn: self-sufficient, self-sufficing, self-sustaining].
Self-suspended (a.) Suspended by one's self or by itself; balanced. -- Southey.
Self-suspicious (a.) Suspicious or distrustful of one's self. -- Baxter.
Self-taught (a.) Taught by one's own efforts.
Self-tormentor (n.) One who torments himself.
Self-torture (n.) The act of inflicting pain on one's self; pain inflicted on one's self.
Self-trust (n.) Faith in one's self; self-reliance.
Self-uned (a.) One with itself; separate from others. [Obs.] -- Sylvester.
Self-view (n.) A view if one's self; specifically, carefulness or regard for one's own interests
Self-will (n.) One's own will, esp. when opposed to that of others; obstinacy.
Self-will (n.) Resolute adherence to your own ideas or desires [syn: stubbornness, bullheadedness, obstinacy, obstinance, pigheadedness, self-will].
Self-will (n.) The trait of resolutely controlling your own behavior [syn: self-control, self-possession, possession, willpower, will power, self-command, self-will].
Self-willed (a.) Governed by one's own will; not yielding to the wishes of others; obstinate.
Self-willed (a.) Habitually disposed to disobedience and opposition [syn: froward, headstrong, self-willed, willful, wilful].
Self-willedness (n.) Obstinacy. -- Sir W. Scott.
Self-worship (n.) The idolizing of one's self; immoderate self-conceit.
Self-worship (n.) The worship of yourself [syn: idiolatry, autolatry, self-worship].
Self-wrong (n.) Wrong done by a person himself. -- Shak.
Selion (n.) A short piece of land in arable ridges and furrows, of uncertain quantity; also, a ridge of land lying between two furrows. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
Seljukian (a.) Of or pertaining to Seljuk, a Tartar chief who embraced Mohammedanism, and began the subjection of Western Asia to that faith and rule; of or pertaining to the dynasty founded by him, or the empire maintained by his descendants from the 10th to the 13th century. -- J. H. Newman.
Seljuckian (n.) A member of the family of Seljuk; an adherent of that family, or subject of its government; (pl.) the dynasty of Turkish sultans sprung from Seljuk.
Sell (n.) Self. [Obs. or Scot.] -- B. Jonson.
Sell (n.) A sill. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Sell (n.) A cell; a house. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Sell (n.) A saddle for a horse. [Obs.]
He left his lofty steed with golden self. -- Spenser.
Sell (n.) A throne or lofty seat. [Obs.] -- Fairfax.
Sold (imp. & p. p.) of Sell.
Selling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sell.
Sell (v. t.) To transfer to another for an equivalent; to give up for a valuable consideration; to dispose of in return for something, especially for money. It is the correlative of buy.
If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor. -- Matt. xix. 21.
I am changed; I'll go sell all my land. -- Shak.
Note: Sell is corellative to buy, as one party buys what the other sells. It is distinguished usually from exchange or barter, in which one commodity is given for another; whereas in selling the consideration is usually money, or its representative in current notes.
Sell (v. t.) To make a matter of bargain and sale of; to accept a price or reward for, as for a breach of duty, trust, or the like; to betray.
You would have sold your king to slaughter. -- Shak.
Sell (v. t.) To impose upon; to trick; to deceive; to make a fool of; to cheat. [Slang] -- Dickens.
To sell one's life dearly, to cause much loss to those who take one's life, as by killing a number of one's assailants.
To sell (anything) out, To dispose of it wholly or entirely; as, he had sold out his corn, or his interest in a business.
Sell (v. i.) To practice selling commodities.
I will buy with you, sell with you; . . . but I will not eat with you. -- Shak.
Sell (v. i.) To be sold; as, corn sells at a good price.
To sell out, to sell one's whole stock in trade or one's entire interest in a property or a business.
Sell (n.) An imposition; a cheat; a hoax. [Colloq.] Sellanders
Sell (n.) The activity of persuading someone to buy; "it was a hard sell".
Sell (v.) Exchange or deliver for money or its equivalent; "He sold his house in January"; "She sells her body to survive and support her drug habit" [ant: buy, purchase].
Sell (v.) Be sold at a certain price or in a certain way; "These books sell like hot cakes".
Sell (v.) Persuade somebody to accept something; "The French try to sell us their image as great lovers".
Sell (v.) Do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood; "She deals in gold"; "The brothers sell shoes" [syn: deal, sell, trade].
Sell (v.) Give up for a price or reward; "She sold her principles for a successful career".
Sell (v.) Be approved of or gain acceptance; "The new idea sold well in certain circles".
Sell (v.) Be responsible for the sale of; "All her publicity sold the products".
Sell (v.) Deliver to an enemy by treachery; "Judas sold Jesus"; "The spy betrayed his country" [syn: betray, sell].
Sellanders (n. pl.) Alt. of Sellenders.
Sallenders (n. pl.) (Far.) An eruption on the hind leg of a horse. [Written also sellanders, and sellenders.].
On the inside of the hock, or a little below it, as well as at the bend of the knee, there is occasionally a scurfy eruption called "mallenders" in the fore leg, and "sallenders" in the hind leg. -- Youatt.
Sellenders (n. pl.) (Far.) See Sallenders.
Seller (n.) One who sells. -- Chaucer.
Seller (n.) Someone who promotes or exchanges goods or services for money [syn: seller, marketer, vender, vendor, trafficker].
Selters water () A mineral water from Sellers, in the district of Nassan, Germany, containing much free carbonic acid.
Seltzer water () See Selters water.
Seltzo-gene (n.) A gazogene. Selvage
Selvage (n.) Alt. of Selvedge.
Selvedge (n.) The edge of cloth which is woven in such a manner as to prevent raveling.
Selvedge (n.) The edge plate of a lock, through which the bolt passes. -- Knight.
Selvedge (n.) (Mining.) A layer of clay or decomposed rock along the wall of a vein. See Gouge, n., 4. -- Raymond. Selvaged
Selvage (n.) Border consisting of an ornamental fringe at either end of an oriental carpet [syn: selvage, selvedge].
Selvage (n.) The edge of a fabric that is woven so that it will not ravel or fray [syn: selvage, selvedge].
Selvage (n.) [from sewing and weaving] See chad (sense 1).
Chad
Perf
Selvage
Snaf, () The perforated edge strips on paper for sprocket feed printers, after they have been separated from the printed portion.
The term perf may also refer to the perforations themselves, rather than the chad they produce when torn. [Why "snaf"?]
Chad
Perf
Selvage
Snaf, () (Or "chaff", "computer confetti", "keypunch droppings") The confetti-like bits punched out of punched cards or paper tape which collected in the chad box.
One of the Jargon File's correspondents believed that "chad" derived from the chadless keypunch. [{Jargon File] (1997-07-18)
Selvaged (a.) Alt. of Selvedged.
Selvedged (a.) Having a selvage.
Selvagee (n.) (Naut.) A skein or hank of rope yarns wound round with yarns or marline, -- used for stoppers, straps, etc.
Selve (a.) Self; same. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Self (a.) Same; particular; very; identical. [Obs., except in the compound selfsame.] "On these self hills." -- Sir. W. Raleigh.
To shoot another arrow that self way Which you did shoot the first. -- Shak.
At that self moment enters Palamon. -- Dryden.
Self (a.) Having its own or a single nature or character, as in color, composition, etc., without addition or change; unmixed; as, a self bow, one made from a single piece of wood; self flower or plant, one which is wholly of one color; self-colored.
Selves (n.) pl. of Self.
Self (n.; pl. Selves.) The individual as the object of his own reflective consciousness; the man viewed by his own cognition as the subject of all his mental phenomena, the agent in his own activities, the subject of his own feelings, and the possessor of capacities and character; a person as a distinct individual; a being regarded as having personality. "Those who liked their real selves." -- Addison.
A man's self may be the worst fellow to converse with in the world. -- Pope.
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. -- Sir W. Hamilton.
Self (n.; pl. Selves.) Hence, personal interest, or love of private interest; selfishness; as, self is his whole aim.
Self (n.; pl. Selves.) Personification; embodiment. [Poetic.]
She was beauty's self. -- Thomson.
Note: Self is united to certain personal pronouns and pronominal adjectives to express emphasis or distinction. Thus, for emphasis; I myself will write; I will examine for myself; thou thyself shalt go; thou shalt see for thyself; you yourself shall write; you shall see for yourself; he himself shall write; he shall examine for himself; she herself shall write; she shall examine for herself; the child itself shall be carried; it shall be present itself. It is also used reflexively; as, I abhor myself; thou enriches thyself; he loves himself; she admires herself; it pleases itself; we walue ourselves; ye hurry yourselves; they see themselves. Himself, herself, themselves, are used in the nominative case, as well as in the objective. "Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples." -- John iv. 2.
Note: self is used in the formation of innumerable compounds, usually of obvious signification, in most of which it denotes either the agent or the object of the action expressed by the word with which it is joined, or the person in behalf of whom it is performed, or the person or thing to, for, or towards whom or which a quality, attribute, or feeling expressed by the following word belongs, is directed, or is exerted, or from which it proceeds; or it denotes the subject of, or object affected by, such action, quality, attribute, feeling, or the like; as, self-abandoning, self-abnegation, self-abhorring, self-absorbed, self-accusing, self-adjusting, self-balanced, self-boasting, self-canceled, self-combating, self-commendation, self-condemned, self-conflict, self-conquest, self-constituted, self-consumed, self-contempt, self-controlled, self-deceiving, self-denying, self-destroyed, self-disclosure, self-display, self-dominion, self-doomed, self-elected, self-evolved, self-exalting, self-excusing, self-exile, self-fed, self-fulfillment, self-governed, self-harming, self-helpless, self-humiliation, self-idolized, self-inflicted, self-improvement, self-instruction, self-invited, self-judging, self-justification, self-loathing, self-loving, self-maintenance, self-mastered, self-nourishment, self-perfect, self-perpetuation, self-pleasing, self-praising, self-preserving, self-questioned, self-relying, self-restraining, self-revelation, self-ruined, self-satisfaction, self-support, self-sustained, self-sustaining, self-tormenting, self-troubling, self-trust, self-tuition, self-upbraiding, self-valuing, self-worshiping, and many others.
Self (a.) (Used as a combining form) relating to--of or by or to or from or for--the self; "self-knowledge"; "self-proclaimed"; "self-induced".
Self (n.) Your consciousness of your own identity [syn: self, ego].
Self (n.) A person considered as a unique individual; "one's own self".
Self, () A small, dynamically typed object-oriented language, based purely on prototypes and delegation.
Self was developed by the Self Group at Sun Microsystems Laboratories, Inc. and Stanford University. It is an experimental exploratory programming language.
Release 2.0 introduces full source-level debugging of optimised code, adaptive optimisation to shorten compile pauses, lightweight threads within Self, support for dynamically linking foreign functions, changing programs within Self and the ability to run the experimental Self graphical browser under OpenWindows. Designed for expressive power and malleability, Self combines a pure, prototype-based object model with uniform access to state and behaviour. Unlike other languages, Self allows objects to inherit state and to change their patterns of inheritance dynamically. Self's customising compiler can generate very efficient code compared to other dynamically-typed object-oriented languages.
Version: 3.0 runs on Sun-3 (no optimiser) and Sun-4.
["Self: The Power of Simplicity", David Ungar et al, SIGPLAN Notices 22(12):227-242, OOPSLA '87, Dec 1987].
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Sely (a.) Silly. [Obs.] -- Chaucer. Wyclif.
Semaeostomata (n. pl.) (Zool.) A division of Discophora having large free mouth lobes. It includes Aurelia, and Pelagia. Called also Semeostoma. See Illustr. under Discophora, and Medusa. Semantic
Semaphore (n.) A signal telegraph; an apparatus for giving signals by the disposition of lanterns, flags, oscillating arms, etc. Semaphoric
Semaphore (n.) An apparatus for visual signaling with lights or mechanically moving arms.
Semaphore (v.) Send signals by or as if by semaphore.
Semaphore (v.) Convey by semaphore, of information.
Semaphore, () The classic method for restricting access to shared resources (e.g. storage) in a multi-processing environment. They were invented by Dijkstra and first used in T.H.E operating system.
A semaphore is a protected variable (or abstract data type) which can only be accessed using the following operations:
P(s)
Semaphore s;
{
while (s == 0) ; /* wait until s>0 */
s = s-1;
V(s)
Semaphore s;
{
s = s+1;
Init(s, v)
Semaphore s;
Int v;
{
s = v;
P and V stand for Dutch "Proberen", to test, and "Verhogen", to increment. The value of a semaphore is the number of units of the resource which are free (if there is only one resource a "binary semaphore" with values 0 or 1 is used). The P operation busy-waits (or maybe sleeps) until a resource is available whereupon it immediately claims one. V is the inverse, it simply makes a resource available again after the process has finished using it. Init is only used to initialise the semaphore before any requests are made. The P and V operations must be indivisible, i.e. no other process can access the semaphore during the their execution.
To avoid busy-waiting, a semaphore may have an associated queue of processes (usually a FIFO). If a process does a P on a semaphore which is zero the process is added to the semaphore's queue. When another process increments the semaphore by doing a V and there are tasks on the queue, one is taken off and resumed. (1995-02-01)
Semaphoric (a.) Alt. of Semaphorical.
Semaphorical (a.) Of or pertaining to a semaphore, or semaphores; telegraphic.
Semaphorically (adv.) By means of a semaphore.
Semaphorist (n.) One who manages or operates a semaphore.
Sematology (n.) The doctrine of signs as the expression of thought or reasoning; the science of indicating thought by signs. -- Smart.
Syn: semantics.
Sematrope (n.) An instrument for signaling by reflecting the rays of the sun in different directions. -- Knight.
Semblable (a.) Like; similar; resembling. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.