same

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/seɪm/
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/seɪm/ · /seːm/ · [seːm] · [sɛːm]

Definition of same

15 senses · 5 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (not-comparable)Not different or other; not another or others; not different as regards self; selfsame; identical.
    “I realised I was the same age as my grandfather had been when he joined the air force.”
    “Even if the twins are identical, they are still not the same person, unlike Mark Twain and Samuel Clemens.”
    “Peter and Anna went to the same high school: the high school to which Peter went is the high school to which Anna went.”
    “Our space may be really same (of equal curvature), but its degree of curvature may change as a whole with the time.”
    “I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me. I look upon notoriety with the same indifference as on the buttons on a man's shirt-front, or the crest on his note-paper.”
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adj

  1. (not-comparable)Not different or other; not another or others; not different as regards self; selfsame; identical.
    “I realised I was the same age as my grandfather had been when he joined the air force.”
    “Even if the twins are identical, they are still not the same person, unlike Mark Twain and Samuel Clemens.”
    “Peter and Anna went to the same high school: the high school to which Peter went is the high school to which Anna went.”
    “Our space may be really same (of equal curvature), but its degree of curvature may change as a whole with the time.”
    “I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me. I look upon notoriety with the same indifference as on the buttons on a man's shirt-front, or the crest on his note-paper.”
  2. (not-comparable)Lacking variety from; indistinguishable.
  3. (not-comparable)Similar, alike.
    “You have the same hair I do!”
    “They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored wherever they were permitted to explore, paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups.”
    “She mixed furniture with the same fatal profligacy as she mixed drinks, and this outrageous contact between things which were intended by Nature to be kept poles apart gave her an inexpressible thrill.”
  4. (not-comparable)Used to express the unity of an object or person which has various different descriptions or qualities.
    “Round here it can be cloudy and sunny even in the same day.”
    “We were all going in the same direction.”
  5. (not-comparable)A reply of confirmation of identity.
    “King Lear: This is a dull sight. Are you not Kent? Kent: The same.”
    “Dante: Whose house was it? Blue-Collar Man: Dominick Bambino's. Randal: "Babyface" Bambino? The gangster? Blue-Collar Man: The same. http://www.whysanity.net/monos/clerks5.html”

adv

  1. (not-comparable)The same way; in the same manner; to the same extent, unchanged; equally.
    “A mother loves all her children the same.”
    “My hometown looked much the same as when I'd left 10 years ago.”
    “It took all night to find our hotel room, as we forgot our room number and each door looked the same.”
  2. (UK, dialectal, obsolete)Together.

pron

  1. The identical thing, ditto.
    “The same can be said of him.”
    “It's the same everywhere.”
  2. Something similar, something of the identical type.
    “She's having apple pie? I'll have the same. You two are just the same.”
    “When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose. And the queerer the cure for those ailings the bigger the attraction. A place like the Right Livers' Rest was bound to draw freaks, same as molasses draws flies.”
  3. (formal, often)It or them, without a connotation of similarity.
    “The question is his credibility or lack of same.”
    “Light valve suspensions and films containing UV absorbers and light valves containing the same”
    “Methods of selectively distributing data in a computer network and systems using the same”
  4. (India, common)It or them, as above, meaning the last object mentioned, mainly as complement: on the same, for the same.
    “My picture/photography blog...kindly give me your reviews on the same.”

intj

  1. (Internet)Indicates approval or agreement with the previous material, especially in reference to the previous speaker's viewpoint.

name

  1. A district capital of Manufahi District in East Timor
  2. A town in Tanzania.
  3. (abbreviation, acronym, alt-of)Acronym of Specific Area Message Encoding.

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From Middle English same, from Old Norse samr (“same”) and/or Old English same, sama (“same”) in the phrase swā same (swā) (“in like manner, in the same way (as)”), both…

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From Middle English same, from Old Norse samr (“same”) and/or Old English same, sama (“same”) in the phrase swā same (swā) (“in like manner, in the same way (as)”), both from Proto-Germanic *samaz (“same”), from Proto-Indo-European *somHós (“same”). Doublet of some and -some. Cognates Cognate with Scots samin (“same, like, together”), Dutch samen (“together”), Danish samme (“same”), Swedish samma (“same”), Norwegian Bokmål samme (“same”), Norwegian Nynorsk same (“same”), Gothic 𐍃𐌰𐌼𐌰 (sama), a weak adjectival form, Ancient Greek ὁμός (homós, “same”), Old Irish som, Russian са́мый (sámyj), Sanskrit सम (samá), Persian هم (ham, “also, same”), Finnish sama (“same”), Estonian sama (“same”). Unrelated to similar words in Austronesian languages such as Malagasy samy (“both, each, everyone; same”); Indonesian and Malay sama (“same, equal, together, exactly like”); Lauan dama (“mate, fellow, corresponding part; exactly like, the same”), 'Are'are tama (“in line, in pairs”)), which originated from Proto-Austronesian *sama (“both, each, everyone, fellow, together, corresponding part; exactly like, in pairs, in line; same”).

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