Self vs. Own

(obsolete) Himself, herself, itself, themselves; that specific (person mentioned).

Example: ‘This argument was put forward by the defendant self.’;

Myself.

Example: ‘I made out a cheque, payable to self, which cheered me up somewhat.’;

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

An individual person as the object of his own reflective consciousness (plural selves).

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

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).

(botany) To fertilise by the same individual; to self-fertilise or self-pollinate.

(botany) To fertilise by the same strain; to inbreed.

Having its own or a single nature or character, as in colour, composition, etc., without addition or change; unmixed.

Example: ‘a self bow: one made from a single piece of wood’; ‘a self flower or plant: one which is wholly of one colour’;

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).

(obsolete) Same.

Same; particular; very; identical.

Example: ‘To shoot another arrow that self wayWhich you did shoot the first.’; ‘At that self moment enters Palamon.’;

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.

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.

Example: ‘A man's self may be the worst fellow to converse with in the world.’; ‘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.’;

Hence, personal interest, or love of private interest; selfishness; as, self is his whole aim.

Personification; embodiment.

Example: ‘She was beauty's self.’;

your consciousness of your own identity

a person considered as a unique individual;

Example: ‘one's own self’;

combining form; oneself or itself;

Example: ‘self-control’;

used as a combining form; relating to--of or by or to or from or for--the self;

Example: ‘self-knowledge’; ‘self-proclaimed’; ‘self-induced’;

a person's essential being that distinguishes them from others, especially considered as the object of introspection or reflexive action

Example: ‘language is an aspect of a person's sense of self’; ‘our alienation from our true selves’; ‘guilt can be turned against the self’;

one's particular nature or personality; the qualities that make one individual or unique

Example: ‘Paula seemed to be her usual cheerful self’; ‘by the end of the round he was back to his old self’;

one's own interests or pleasure

Example: ‘to love in an unpossessive way implies the total surrender of self’;

used ironically to refer to oneself or someone else

Example: ‘an article with a picture of my good self’;

used on counterfoils, cheques, and other papers to refer to the holder or person who has signed

Example: ‘the uppermost counterfoil was marked ‘Self’’;

(of a trimming or cover) of the same material and colour as the rest of the item

Example: ‘a button-through style with self belt’;

self-pollinate; self-fertilize

Example: ‘a variety that selfs itself loses lots of vigour in the progeny’;

cause (an animal or plant) to breed with or fertilize one of the same hybrid origin or strain

Example: ‘progeny were derived from selfed crosses’;

The self is an individual person as the object of its own reflective consciousness. Since the self is a reference by a subject to the same subject, this reference is necessarily subjective.

(transitive) To have rightful possession of (property, goods or capital); to have legal title to.

Example: ‘I own this car.’;

(transitive) To have recognized political sovereignty over a place, territory, as distinct from the ordinary connotation of property ownership.

Example: ‘The United States owns Point Roberts by the terms of the Treaty of Oregon.’;

(transitive) To defeat or embarrass; to overwhelm.

Example: ‘I will own my enemies.’; ‘If he wins, he will own you.’;

(transitive) To virtually or figuratively enslave.

To defeat, dominate, or be above, also spelled pwn.

To illicitly obtain superuser or root access to a computer system, thereby having access to all of the user files on that system; pwn.

To grant; give.

(intransitive) To admit, concede, grant, allow, acknowledge, confess; not to deny.

(transitive) To admit; concede; acknowledge.

(transitive) To answer to.

(transitive) To recognise; acknowledge.

Example: ‘to own one as a son’;

(transitive) To claim as one's own.

To confess.

Belonging to; possessed; proper to. Often marks a possessive determiner as reflexive, referring back to the subject of the clause or sentence.

(obsolete) Peculiar, domestic.

(obsolete) Not foreign.

To grant; to acknowledge; to admit to be true; to confess; to recognize in a particular character; as, we own that we have forfeited your love.

Example: ‘The wakeful bloodhound rose, and shook his hide;But his sagacious eye an inmate owns.’;

To hold as property; to have a legal or rightful title to; to be the proprietor or possessor of; to possess; as, to own a house.

Belonging to; belonging exclusively or especially to; peculiar; - most frequently following a possessive pronoun, as my, our, thy, your, his, her, its, their, in order to emphasize or intensify the idea of property, peculiar interest, or exclusive ownership; as, my own father; my own composition; my own idea; at my own price.

have ownership or possession of;

Example: ‘He owns three houses in Florida’; ‘How many cars does she have?’;

belonging to or on behalf of a specified person (especially yourself); preceded by a possessive;

Example: ‘for your own use’; ‘do your own thing’; ‘she makes her own clothes’; ‘`ain' is Scottish’;