same
Part of speech: adj
adv
pron
intj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
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 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, including 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”). All of which originated from Proto-Austronesian *sama (“both, each, everyone, fellow, together, corresponding part; exactly like, in pairs, in line; same”).
Inflected forms:
form: the same
pos: adv
tags: canonical
Senses:
gloss: Not different or other; not another or others; not different as regards self; selfsame; identical.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: 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.
If two persons bore the same name, and confusion was likely to be caused, ambiguity was avoided by adding the name of the father […]
gloss: Lacking variety from; indistinguishable.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Similar, alike.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: 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.
gloss: Used to express the unity of an object or person which has various different descriptions or qualities.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Round here it can be cloudy and sunny even in the same day.
We were all going in the same direction.
gloss: A reply of confirmation of identity.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: 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
gloss: The same way; in the same manner; to the same extent, unchanged; equally.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: 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.
gloss: The identical thing, ditto.
pos: pron
examples: The same can be said of him.
It's the same everywhere.
gloss: Something similar, something of the identical type.
pos: pron
examples: 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.
gloss: It or them, without a connotation of similarity.
pos: pron
tags: formal
often
examples: 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
gloss: It or them, as above, meaning the last object mentioned, mainly as complement: on the same, for the same.
pos: pron
tags: India
common
examples: My picture/photography blog...kindly give me your reviews on the same.
gloss: Indicates approval or agreement with the previous material, especially in reference to the previous speaker's viewpoint.
pos: intj
tags: Internet
Antonyms: another
different
opposite
other
Derived words: all else the same
along the same vein
at the same time
bitten by the same bug
buy the same horse twice
by the same token
chip off the same block
chip of the same block
cut from the same cloth
cut of the same cloth
cut out of the same cloth
exact same
get glad in the same britches one got mad in
get glad in the same pants one got mad in
harp on the same string
if it's all the same
in the same boat
in the same breath
in the same shoes
in the same vain
in the same vane
in the same vein
just the same
lightning does not strike twice in the same place
lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place
lightning never strikes twice in the same place
of the same leaven
of the same stripe
on the same page
on the same wavelength
paint with the same brush
play the same tape
put the same shoe on every foot
row in the same boat
same-blooded
same-bloodedness
same-day
same day lay
same difference
same exact
same face syndrome
samefag
same gender loving
same-gender-loving
same-gender marriage
same gender
same-gender
same here
sameish
samely
same-minded
sameness
same old
same-old same-old
same old same old
same old same-old
same old-same old
same old story
same old stuff
same-origin policy
same same
same, same, but different
same same but different
same sex
same-sex
same-sexer
same-sex marriage
same-sexness
same-sexuality
samesies
same thing
samey
the same way
self-same
serve someone the same sauce
serve someone with the same sauce
sing from the same hymnal
sing from the same hymnbook
sing from the same hymn sheet
sing off the same hymn sheet
sing the same tune
sleep under the same bridge
tar with the same brush
tar with the same stick
the same
the same mixture as before
two cheeks of the same arse
two sides of the same coin
very same
walk and chew gum at the same time
you cannot put the same shoe on every foot
you can't step in the same river twice
all the same
one and the same
same to you
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