Same
[seɪm] or [sem]
Definition
(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' .
(adj.) unchanged in character or nature; 'the village stayed the same'; 'his attitude is the same as ever' .
Edited by Cheryl--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Identical, not different.[2]. Similar, like, corresponding; of like kind, sort, or degree.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Identical, selfsame, similar, corresponding
ANT:Other, different
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Definition
adj. identical: of the like kind or degree: similar: mentioned before.—adj. Same′ly unvaried.—n. Same′ness the being the same: tedious monotony.—All the same for all that; At the same time still nevertheless.
adv. (Spens.). Same as Sam.
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Examples
- I could tell you a story about that same uncle, gentlemen, that would rather surprise you. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- I have as yet spoken as if the varieties of the same species were invariably fertile when intercrossed. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- I know this in much the same way, I suppose. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Of the species which do change, only a few within the same country change at the same time; and all modifications are slowly effected. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- But liberty had been a useless gift to me had I not, as I awakened to reason, at the same time awakened to revenge. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- It would seem to be always the same question, for, it is always followed by a press of people towards the third cart. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- It ended in my moving into the house next Lady-day, and starting in practice on very much the same conditions as he had suggested. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- And ought not the same natures to have the same pursuits? Plato. The Republic.
- But in 1562, the year at which he ends with it, it contained no more than the same nominal sum does at present. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- If the central depths were untouched, hardly a pin-point of surface remained the same. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- The same experienced union has the same effect on the mind, whether the united objects be motives, volitions and actions; or figure and motion. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Aye, very true, my dear, cried the latter, though Jane had not spoken a wordI was just going to say the same thing. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Homologous parts tend to vary in the same manner, and homologous parts tend to cohere. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- For example, I said, can the same thing be at rest and in motion at the same time in the same part? Plato. The Republic.
- The same theory accounts for the esteem and regard we pay to men of extraordinary parts and abilities. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
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