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same

adj
/seɪm/US/seːm/CA/seːm/

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 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”).

  1. derived from *sem-✻
  2. derived from *samanai✻
  3. derived from samen
  4. derived from same

Definitions

  1. Not different or other

    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.

  2. Lacking variety from

    Lacking variety from; indistinguishable.

  3. Similar, alike.

    • You have the same hair I do!
    • 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. ›+ 12 more definitions

    1. Used to express the unity of an object or person which has various different descriptions…

      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.

    2. 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

    3. The same way

      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.

    4. The identical thing, ditto.

      • The same can be said of him.
      • It's the same everywhere.

    5. Something similar, something of the identical type.

      • She's having apple pie? I'll have the same. You two are just the same.

    6. 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

    7. It or them, as above, meaning the last object mentioned, mainly as complement

      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.

    8. Indicates approval or agreement with the previous material, especially in reference to…

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

    9. Together.

    10. A district capital of Manufahi District in East Timor

    11. A town in Tanzania.

    12. Acronym of Specific Area Message Encoding.

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Derived

all else the same, 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 · +54 more

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for same. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA