same
adj 1: 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"
[ant: other]
2: 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" [ant: different]
3: equal in amount or value; "like amounts"; "equivalent
amounts"; "the same amount"; "gave one six blows and the
other a like number"; "the same number" [syn: like, same]
[ant: unlike]
4: unchanged in character or nature; "the village stayed the
same"; "his attitude is the same as ever"
n 1: a member of an indigenous nomadic people living in northern
Scandinavia and herding reindeer [syn: Lapp,
Lapplander, Sami, Saami, Same, Saame]
2: the language of nomadic Lapps in northern Scandinavia and the
Kola Peninsula [syn: Lapp, Sami, Saami, Same,
Saame]
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Same \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.
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Thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end.
--Ps. cii. 27.
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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.
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The ethereal vigor is in all the same. --Dryden.
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3. Just mentioned, or just about to be mentioned.
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What ye know, the same do I know. --Job. xiii.
2.
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Do but think how well the same he spends,
Who spends his blood his country to relieve.
--Daniel.
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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.
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Bees like the same odors as we do. --Lubbock.
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[He] held the same political opinions with his
illustrious friend. --Macaulay.
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