About The Word Same
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What's The Definition Of Same?
[adv] in the same manner; "you get treated fairly, same as any other student in this course!"
[adj] equal in amount or value; "like amounts"; "equivalent amounts"; "the same amount"; "gave one six blows and the other a like number"; "an equal number"; "the same number" [adj] closely similar or comparable in kind or quality or quantity or degree; "curtains the same color as the walls"; "two girls of the same age"; "mother and son have the same blue eyes"; "animals of the same species"; "the same rules as before"; "two boxes having the same dimensions"; "the same day next year" [adj] same in identity; "the same man I saw yesterday"; "never wore the same dress twice"; "this road is the same one we were on yesterday"; "on the same side of the street" Synonyms | Synonyms for Same: aforementioned(a) | aforesaid(a) | assonant | comparable | corresponding | duplicate | equal | equivalent | identical | indistinguishable | like | one and the same(p) | one(a) | said(a) | self | selfsame(a) | synoptic | synoptical | very(a) Related Terms | Find terms related to Same: See Also | similar | unvaried | unvarying Same In Webster's Dictionary \Same\, a. [AS. same, adv.; akin to OS. sama, samo, adv.,
OHG. sam, a., sama, adv., Icel. samr, a., Sw. samme, samma,
Dan. samme, Goth. sama, Russ. samuii, Gr. ?, Skr. sama, Gr. ?
like, L. simul at the same time, similis like, and E. some,
a., -some. [root]191. Cf. {Anomalous}, {Assemble},
{Homeopathy}, {Homily}, {Seem}, v. i., {Semi-}, {Similar},
{Some}.]
1. Not different or other; not another or others; identical;
unchanged.
Thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end.
--Ps. cii. 27.
2. Of like kind, species, sort, dimensions, or the like; not
differing in character or in the quality or qualities
compared; corresponding; not discordant; similar; like.
The ethereal vigor is in all the same. --Dryden.
3. Just mentioned, or just about to be mentioned.
What ye know, the same do I know. --Job. xiii.
2.
Do but think how well the same he spends, Who spends
his blood his country to relieve. --Daniel.
Note: Same is commonly preceded by the, this, or that and is
often used substantively as in the citations above. In
a comparative use it is followed by as or with.
Bees like the same odors as we do. --Lubbock.
[He] held the same political opinions with his
illustrious friend. --Macaulay.
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