same — Englisches Wörterbuch

Adjektiv

1. Not different or other; not another or others; not different as regards self; selfsame; identical.

   Gebrauch

   • not-comparable

   Beispiele

   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.

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   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 […]

2. Lacking variety from; indistinguishable.

   Gebrauch

   • not-comparable

3. Similar, alike.

   Gebrauch

   • not-comparable

   Beispiele

   You have the same hair I do!

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   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.

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

   Gebrauch

   • not-comparable

   Beispiele

   Round here it can be cloudy and sunny even in the same day.

   We were all going in the same direction.

5. A reply of confirmation of identity.

   Gebrauch

   • not-comparable

   Beispiele

   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.

Adverb

1. The same way; in the same manner; to the same extent, unchanged; equally.

   Gebrauch

   • not-comparable
   • used with the

   Beispiele

   A mother loves all her children the same.

   My hometown looked much the same as when I'd left 10 years ago.

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   It took all night to find our hotel room, as we forgot our room number and each door looked the same.

Pronomen

1. The identical thing, ditto.

   Beispiele

   The same can be said of him.

   It's the same everywhere.

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   "Are you José María García?" - "The same."

2. Something similar, something of the identical type.

   Beispiele

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

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   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.

3. It or them, without a connotation of similarity.

   Gebrauch

   • formell
   • often

   Beispiele

   The question is his credibility or lack of same.

   Light valve suspensions and films containing UV absorbers and light valves containing the same

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   Methods of selectively distributing data in a computer network and systems using the same

4. It or them, as above, meaning the last object mentioned, mainly as complement: on the same, for the same.

   Gebrauch

   • India
   • common

   Beispiele

   My picture/photography blog...kindly give me your reviews on the same.

Interjektion

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

   Gebrauch

   • Internet

   Synonyme

   thislikelikewiseIAWTP

Adverb

1. Together.

   Gebrauch

   • britischer Gebrauch
   • dialectal
   • außer Gebrauch

Adjektiv

1. same in identity

   Antonyme

   other

   Beispiele

   the same man I saw yesterday

   never wore the same dress twice

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   this road is the same one we were on yesterday

   on the same side of the street

2. closely similar or comparable in kind or quality or quantity or degree

   Antonyme

   different

   Beispiele

   curtains the same color as the walls

   two girls of the same age

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   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

3. equal in amount or value

   Synonyme

   like

   Beispiele

   like amounts

   the same amount

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   gave one six blows and the other a like number

   the same number

4. unchanged in character or nature

   Beispiele

   the village stayed the same

   his attitude is the same as ever