same

same
adj., pron. the same
VERBS
be, feel, look, seem, smell, sound, taste

They both taste just the same to me.

remain, stay
ADVERB
exactly, just, precisely

I had exactly the same experience.

not altogether, not quite

That's not quite the same thing, is it?

almost, basically, broadly, essentially, more or less, nearly, practically, pretty much, roughly, substantially, virtually

Your new job will be essentially the same as your old one.

PREPOSITION
as

Your dress is nearly the same as mine.

PHRASES
one and the same

In his work, form and meaning are one and the same.

Same is used with these nouns: ↑degree, ↑direction, ↑fashion, ↑fate, ↑footing, ↑frequency, ↑gender, ↑intensity, ↑kind, ↑opinion, ↑pattern, ↑position, ↑root, ↑routine, ↑sex, ↑sort, ↑source, ↑tack, ↑time, ↑way

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  • Same — Same …   Deutsch Wörterbuch

  • same — [ seım ] function word *** Same can be used in the following ways: as an adjective (after the, this, that, these, or those ): We both went to the same school. Our new competitors are those same people who once asked us to help them. as a pronoun… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • same — I adjective alike, cognate, duplicate, equal, equivalent, exactly like, identical, one and the same, parallel, similar, synonymous, twin, uniform, without difference associated concepts: same act or transaction, same as, same cause, same cause of …   Law dictionary

  • Same [2] — Same der Pflanzen (Semen, hierzu Tafel »Samenformen«, mit Text), der ausgereifte Zustand der befruchteten Samenanlage (s. d.) der Blütenpflanzen, aus dem durch die Keimung ein neues Pflanzen individuum hervorgeht. Der wichtigste Teil des Samens… …   Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon

  • Same — Same, a. [AS. same, adv.; akin to OS. sama, samo, adv., OHG. sam, a., sama, adv., Icel. samr, a., Sw. samme, samma, Dan. samme, Goth. sama, Russ. samuii, Gr. ?, Skr. sama, Gr. ? like, L. simul at the same time, similis like, and E. some, a., some …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • SAME — and similar can mean: * Not different : see Places*Same (ancient Greece) *Same (East Timor), the capital of the Manufahi district of East Timor *Same, New Guinea *Same District, a district in the Kilimanjaro Region of TanzaniaMusic* Same , a song …   Wikipedia

  • same — perhaps abstracted from O.E. swa same the same as, but more likely from O.N. same, samr same, both from P.Gmc. *samon (Cf. O.S., O.H.G., Goth. sama, O.H.G. samant, Ger. samt together, with, Goth. samana together, Du. zamelen to collect, Ger …   Etymology dictionary

  • same — 1. Same (or the same) was once commonly used as a pronoun in literary English • (But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved Matthew 24:13 (Authorized Version, 1611) but is now largely confined to legal and business contexts: • …   Modern English usage

  • same — ► ADJECTIVE 1) (the same) exactly alike; not different or changed. 2) (this/that same) referring to a person or thing just mentioned. ► PRONOUN 1) (the same) the same thing as previously mentioned. 2) ( …   English terms dictionary

  • SAME — steht für: Same (Pflanze), der von einer Schutzhülle und dem Nährgewebe umgebene Keim (Embryo) Spermium, die Samenzelle Sami, Angehöriger der Samen (Volk) Same (Traktormarke) Same (Osttimor), die Hauptstadt des osttimorischen Distriktes Manufahi… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • same — [sām] adj. [ME < ON samr, akin to Goth sama, OHG samo, OE same < IE * som , var. of base * sem , one, together, with > Sans saṃ, Gr homōs, alike, L simul, at the same time, similis, like] 1. being the very one; identical 2. alike in kind …   English World dictionary

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