"self-heal" meaning in English

See self-heal in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: self-heals [plural]
Etymology: self- + heal Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|self|heal}} self- + heal Head templates: {{en-noun}} self-heal (plural self-heals)
  1. Alternative spelling of selfheal (“Prunella”) Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: selfheal (extra: Prunella)
    Sense id: en-self-heal-en-noun-bHsDQjw7 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 55 45

Verb

Forms: self-heals [present, singular, third-person], self-healing [participle, present], self-healed [participle, past], self-healed [past]
Etymology: self- + heal Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|self|heal}} self- + heal Head templates: {{en-verb}} self-heal (third-person singular simple present self-heals, present participle self-healing, simple past and past participle self-healed)
  1. (intransitive) To heal itself, or by itself. Tags: intransitive
    Sense id: en-self-heal-en-verb-QvpywY70 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with self- Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 55 45 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with self-: 31 69

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for self-heal meaning in English (2.3kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "self",
        "3": "heal"
      },
      "expansion": "self- + heal",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "self- + heal",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "self-heals",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "self-healing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "self-healed",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "self-healed",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "self-heal (third-person singular simple present self-heals, present participle self-healing, simple past and past participle self-healed)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "55 45",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "31 69",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms prefixed with self-",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2015, Sally J. Shim, Be Mine: 25 Paper Projects to Share the Love, page 18",
          "text": "A self-healing cutting mat has a durable vinyl surface that bounces back from blade marks and cuts […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To heal itself, or by itself."
      ],
      "id": "en-self-heal-en-verb-QvpywY70",
      "links": [
        [
          "heal",
          "heal"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To heal itself, or by itself."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "self-heal"
}

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "self",
        "3": "heal"
      },
      "expansion": "self- + heal",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "self- + heal",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "self-heals",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "self-heal (plural self-heals)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "extra": "Prunella",
          "word": "selfheal"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "55 45",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative spelling of selfheal (“Prunella”)"
      ],
      "id": "en-self-heal-en-noun-bHsDQjw7",
      "links": [
        [
          "selfheal",
          "selfheal#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "self-heal"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms prefixed with self-",
    "English verbs"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "self",
        "3": "heal"
      },
      "expansion": "self- + heal",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "self- + heal",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "self-heals",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "self-healing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "self-healed",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "self-healed",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "self-heal (third-person singular simple present self-heals, present participle self-healing, simple past and past participle self-healed)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2015, Sally J. Shim, Be Mine: 25 Paper Projects to Share the Love, page 18",
          "text": "A self-healing cutting mat has a durable vinyl surface that bounces back from blade marks and cuts […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To heal itself, or by itself."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "heal",
          "heal"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To heal itself, or by itself."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "self-heal"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms prefixed with self-",
    "English verbs"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "self",
        "3": "heal"
      },
      "expansion": "self- + heal",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "self- + heal",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "self-heals",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "self-heal (plural self-heals)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "extra": "Prunella",
          "word": "selfheal"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative spelling of selfheal (“Prunella”)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "selfheal",
          "selfheal#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "self-heal"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.