Meaning of same | Babel Free

Definitions

1. same; identical; one and the same; indicates that the two compared noun clauses both represent the one thing
2. Not different or other; not another or others; not different as regards self; selfsame; identical.
   not-comparable
3. similar; alike; practically identical; indicates that the two compared noun clauses have one or more matching qualities
4. Lacking variety from; indistinguishable.
   not-comparable
5. self; emphasizes the identity or singularity of the modified noun phrase
6. Similar, alike.
   not-comparable
7. own; emphasizes the owner or the exclusivity of ownership in a noun phrase with a possessive pronoun
8. Used to express the unity of an object or person which has various different descriptions or qualities.
   not-comparable
9. right, exactly, immediately
10. A reply of confirmation of identity.
    not-comparable

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“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 […]”

“You have the same hair I do!”

“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.”

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

“We were all going in the same direction.”

“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”

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