same

[Same]

A member of an indigenous nomadic people living in northern Scandinavia and herding reindeer

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Not different or other; not another or others; identical; unchanged.

Adjective
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"

Adjective
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 ha

Adjective
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"

Adverb
in the same manner; "you get treated fairly, same as any other student in this course!"


v. i.
Not different or other; not another or others; identical; unchanged.

v. i.
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.

v. i.
Just mentioned, or just about to be mentioned.


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. samui, 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.
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.
3. Just mentioned, or just about to be mentioned.
What ye know, the same do I know.
Do but think how well the same he spends, Who spends his blood his country to relieve.
&hand; 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.
[He] held the same political opinions with his illustrious friend.

Not different or other; not another or others; identical; unchanged.

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Usage Examples

A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.

A dead cow or sheep lying in a pasture is recognized as carrion. The same sort of a carcass dressed and hung up in a butcher's stall passes as food.

A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper.

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

A lot of the powerful religious leaders, from Jesus to Buddha to Tibetan monks, they're really talking about the same things: love and acceptable, and the value of friendship, and respecting yourself so you can respect others.

A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it.

'WASP' is the only ethnic term that is in fact a term of class, apart from redneck, which is another word for the same group but who are in the lower social strata, so it's inexplicably tied up with social standing and culture and history in a way that the other hyphenations just are not.

A certificate of live birth is not the same thing by any stretch of the imagination as a birth certificate.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

A John Updike is a once-in-a-generation phenomenon, if that generation is lucky: so comfortable in so many genres, the same lively, generous intelligence suffusing all he did.

A married woman has the same right to control her own body as does an unmarried woman.

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.

A bachelor is a guy who never made the same mistake once.

A clear cold morning with high wind: we caught in a trap a large gray wolf, and last night obtained in the same way a fox who had for some time infested the neighbourhood of the fort.

A more important reason is that the bands will intuitively trust someone they think is a peer, and who speaks fondly of the same formative rock and roll experiences.

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