Sentence examples for self meaning from inspiring English sources

Aristotle says that a friend is "another self", meaning that the kind of concern one properly has for one's own good is extended to one's friend too.

He announced that he would read a poem about the quantified self, meaning one that catalogued the evidence obtained from the close examination of a body, similar to the way he had examined his own body in "Fidget".

Although Arabidopsis is a sexually reproducing species, it is highly selfing, meaning that organisms primarily mate with themselves.

The study claims that the dynamics between self and culture which leads to ontogenetic development are engendered by semiotic-affective social interactions; and that the quality of such interactions is the product of a long history of social mediation of self-meaning processes.

He suggests that societies gain a sense of self-meaning by conjuring the image of an opposite culture that breaks societal taboos.

"The Zn-Co-Cr ferrite nanoparticles produced for this study are self-regulating, meaning that they self-stop heating when they reach temperatures over 45°C.

These are called self bows, meaning they are not laminated or covered with fiberglass.

They say they believe that the department should be able to "self budget," meaning that it should set its own annual budget.

"Think of Maslow's famous pyramid of needs, at the bottom you've got material needs, as you climb up towards self actualization, meaning, friendship, connection etc.

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A: Well, when Boris travels back in time, he teams up with his younger, two-armed self -- meaning that there are now two Borises at large in 1969.