group vs self

group

noun
  • A number of things or persons being in some relation to one another. 

  • A column in the periodic table of chemical elements. 

  • An element of an espresso machine from which hot water pours into the portafilter. 

  • A (usually small) group of people who perform music together. 

  • An air force formation. 

  • A number of users with the same rights with respect to accession, modification, and execution of files, computers and peripherals. 

  • A subset of a culture or of a society. 

  • A functional group. 

  • A small number (up to about fifty) of galaxies that are near each other. 

  • A collection of formations or rock strata. 

  • A number of eighth, sixteenth, etc., notes joined at the stems; sometimes rather indefinitely applied to any ornament made up of a few short notes. 

  • A set with an associative binary operation, under which there exists an identity element, and such that each element has an inverse. 

  • A commercial organization. 

  • A set of teams playing each other in the same division, while not during the same period playing any teams that belong to other sets in the division. 

verb
  • To come together to form a group. 

  • To put together to form a group. 

self

noun
  • One individual's personality, character, demeanor, or disposition. 

  • Self-interest or personal advantage. 

  • A flower having its colour uniform as opposed to variegated. 

  • An individual person as the object of the person's own reflective consciousness (plural selves). 

  • The subject of one's own experience of phenomena: perception, emotions, thoughts. 

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

  • Identity or personality. 

  • Any molecule, cell, or tissue of an organism's own (belonging to the self), as opposed to a foreign (nonself) molecule, cell, or tissue (for example, infective, allogenic, or xenogenic). 

verb
  • To fertilise by the same strain; to inbreed. 

  • To fertilise by the same individual; to self-fertilise or self-pollinate. 

pron
  • Myself. 

adj
  • Of or relating to any molecule, cell, or tissue of an organism's own (belonging to the self), as opposed to a foreign (nonself) molecule, cell, or tissue (for example, infective, allogenic, or xenogenic). 

  • Having its own or a single nature or character throughout, as in colour, composition, etc., without addition or change; of the same kind; unmixed. 

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