What's the difference between selvas and selves?

Selvas


Definition:

  • (n. pl.) Vast woodland plains of South America.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As Meera Selva pointed out , the voices of admonition will come from Commonwealth leaders who have accepted the hospitality of another despot, Uganda's president, Yoweri Museveni .
  • (2) In tropical rain forest, phlebotomine sandflies (Diptera: Psychodidae), such as Lutzomyia vespertilionis and L.ylephiletor, have an aggregated distribution on their tree buttress diurnal resting sites, as studied during 1987-88 at Finca la Selva in the Caribbean lowlands of Costa Rica.
  • (3) Testifying before the Senate last week , Gen Paul Selva, vice-chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, said Cruz’s proposal “is not the way that we apply force in combat.
  • (4) Andy Selva, perhaps bored with loitering ignored on the halfway line, was just as panicked three minutes from the interval as he swung a boot at a high ball and caught Rooney in the face.
  • (5) The distribution patterns of sandflies (Diptera: Psychodidae) upon tree buttresses were studied in tropical rain forest at Finca la Selva in the Caribbean lowlands of Costa Rica.
  • (6) A40926 is a new glycopeptide antibiotic with unique activity against Neisseria gonorrhoeae and high and prolonged levels in mouse blood (B. P. Goldstein, E. Selva, L. Gastaldo, M. Berti, R. Pallanza, F. Ripamonti, P. Ferrari, M. Denaro, V. Arioli, and G. Cassani, Antimicrob.

Selves


Definition:

  • (pl. ) of Self
  • (n.) pl. of Self.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The implications of qualitative and quantitative differences among love, sex and commitment are discussed in relation to (1) the concept of "multiple selves," (2) "individual variations in threshold levels," and (3) the misuse of "ideal types."
  • (2) AGIs will indeed be capable of self-awareness – but that is because they will be General: they will be capable of awareness of every kind of deep and subtle thing, including their own selves.
  • (3) "Owning" the ageing process instead of fighting it makes it easier to value our older selves, and reclaim – both individually and together – a sense of the lifecycle.
  • (4) Monet, Courbet, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Millet, that boor Cézanne and the even more boorish Picasso and Marinetti (not to mention our own selves, the local boors)."
  • (5) From Shakespeare to Hemingway, the Jew has been assigned a special place in the psyche of the authors here described, reflecting the ongoing cultural bias as it became internalized in the selves of the authors quoted.
  • (6) We used to dream about doing this in our lifetimes, so our 19-year-old selves would probably have been very relieved that we got here.” He adds, reflectively: “It’s true though, I don’t have much of a normal life.
  • (7) But we need to rediscover our inner transcendental selves in everyday life too.
  • (8) Was it just that we were all older and that we were sentimentally loyal to our younger selves, a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away?
  • (9) A basic assumption of this article is that there exist other, non-Western varieties of selves and human subjectivities that provide essential information for understanding human psychological and social behavior.
  • (10) Specifically, we examined the consequences of a chronic conflict between two valued selves.
  • (11) Friends were equally keen to leave but too frightened to apply thanks to the previous decade's frequent reversals: "They say one thing, you do it, then they say, 'You guys are going to jail because you have revealed your true selves.'"
  • (12) Other countries have announced similar or deeper emissions cuts, but none have committed them selves by law.
  • (13) Other analysis showed that symptom expectations for "girls in general" were more severe than for selves, though these 2 sets of responses were highly correlated.
  • (14) How their play becomes criminalized and how they’re socialized to become black adults who internalize that their very breathing selves are criminal.
  • (15) We can forgive much about our younger selves, but that question in particular does seem daft, given that the man before me is about to star in probably the year's greatest blockbuster, The Hobbit , reprising – or is "preprising" yet a word?
  • (16) Inpatients with nonbipolar psychotic major depression (N = 46) had significantly lower Hamilton Rating Scale scores at discharge and a significantly greater number of weeks back to their "normal selves" during a 6-month follow-up than did patients with nonpsychotic major depression (N = 159).
  • (17) Our teenage selves who shopped, if we could, at Young Jaeger 40 years ago were telling us something.
  • (18) A week that began with faith in David Moyes disappearing at an alarming rate has ended with United looking more like their old selves, the inclusion of Juan Mata and Shinji Kagawa allowing them to play with a panache that has rarely been evident this season.
  • (19) The patient with cystoïd macular oedema was treated by Hyperbar oxygenotherapy, basing one of selves on the theory ischemia.
  • (20) At one level, this novel is indeed - as Rushdie defensively claimed - "about migration, metamorphosis, divided selves, love, death, London and Bombay".

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