Seme
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Seme may refer to:
- Seme BorderSeme BorderSeme Border is a settlement in Nigeria on the border with Benin, ten minutes drive from Badagry on the coastal road between Lagos and Cotonou. Seme is a part of Badagry Division of Lagos State....
, a settlement in Nigeria on the border with Benin - Seme (dagger)Seme (dagger)A seme is a type of dagger or short sword used by the Maasai people of East Africa.Typically it is seen with a wooden handle. The scabbard is wood covered with rawhide dyed red and tipped with a coin in old versions....
, a Maasai term for a type of lion hunting knife - Seme (martial arts)Seme (martial arts)is a Japanese martial arts term for a kind of psychological pressure. The seme is the one inflicting something on to the uke. It is also an attitude meant to disrupt the opponents sense of confidence and resolution, prior to an attack....
, Japanese martial arts term meaning to attack - Seme, a manga/anime term for a dominant partner in a homosexual relationship
- Semé, a term used in heraldry to describe a field filled with charges
- Seme (semantics)Seme (semantics)Seme, the smallest unit of meaning recognized in semantics, refers to a single characteristic of a sememe. These characteristics are defined according to the differences between sememes. The term was introduced by Eric Buyssens in the 1930s and developed by Bernard Pottier in the 1960s...
, a small unit of meaning identified as one characteristic of a sememe - Pixley ka Isaka SemePixley ka Isaka SemePixley ka Isaka Seme was a founder and President of the African National Congress.He was born in the Colony of Natal at the Inanda mission station of the American Zulu Mission of American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions...
(1881?-June 1951) a founding member of the African National Congress