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same meaning

EN[seɪm] [-eɪm]
US
WSame
  • Same may refer to:
  • Sameness or identity
  • In places:
  • Same (ancient Greece)
  • Same, East Timor, the capital of the Manufahi district
  • Samé, Mali
  • Same, Tanzania
  • Same District, Tanzania
  • In other uses:
  • SAME Deutz-Fahr, an Italian manufacturer of tractors, combine harvesters and engines
  • SAME(Società Accomandita Motori Endotermici), a brand of SAME Deutz-Fahr
  • S-adenosyl methionine or SAMe, an amino acid
  • Society of American Military Engineers
  • Specific Area Message Encoding, a coding system within the Emergency Alert System in the United States
EN Same

    Definition of same in English Dictionary

  • PronounPREsame-
    1. The identical thing, ditto.
      1. The same can be said of him. ‎
    2. Something similar, something of the identical type.
      1. 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. (formal, often law) It or them, without a connotation of similarity.
      1. The question is his credibility or lack of same. ‎
      2. Light valve suspensions and films containing UV absorbers and light valves containing the same (US Patent 5,467,217)
      3. Methods of selectively distributing data in a computer network and systems using the same (US Patent 7,191,208)
    4. (India, common) It or them, as above, meaning the last object mentioned, mainly as complement: on the same, for the same.
      1. My picture/photography blog...kindly give me your reviews on the same.
  • AdjectiveCOMmore sameSUPmost same
    1. Not different or other; not another or others; not different as regards self; selfsame; identical.
      1. Are you the same person who phoned me yesterday? ‎
      2. I realised I was the same age as my grandfather had been when he joined the air force. ‎
      3. Even if the twins are identical, they are still not the same person, unlike Mark Twain and Samuel Clemens. ‎
      4. 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. Similar, alike.
      1. You have the same hair I do! ‎
    3. Used to express the unity of an object or person which has various different descriptions or qualities.
      1. Round here it can be cloudy and sunny even in the same day. ‎
      2. We were all going in the same direction. ‎
    4. A reply of confirmation of identity.
    5. AdverbCOMmore sameSUPmost same
      1. (obsolete or Britain dialectal) Together.
      2. More Examples
        1. Used in the Middle of Sentence
          • Now, to be fair, most of the games were okay, but they're the same kind of games you might as well be playing on your TV screen. ‎ — James D. Rolfe
          • Every five and thirty years the same kind and suit of weather comes again. — Francis Bacon.
          • Two people can have the same idea at the same time because they felt the same thought-forms.
        2. Used in the Ending of Sentence
          • Just as early malls commodified public life under the rhetoric of community building, then, the owners of cyburban space could do the same.
          • There was a will, friend, a true and lawful last will and testament of thee deceased uncle, in which theeself and thee cousin was made the sole heirs of the same.
          • Most of the staff has already clocked off for the night, you should do the same.
      • Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
        1. Adjectives
          • Uncomparable adjectives
          • Adverbs
            • Pronouns
            Related Links:
            1. en sameness
            2. en samey
            3. en samech
            4. en samely
            5. fr samedi
            Source: Wiktionary

            Meaning of same for the defined word.

            Grammatically, this word "same" is an adjective, more specifically, an uncomparable adjective. It's also an adverb. It's also a pronoun.
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