same

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

   I realised I was the same age as my grandfather had been when he joined the air force.

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   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.

   1885, William Kingdon Clifford, chapter IV, in The Common Sense of the Exact Sciences

   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.

   1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC

   If two persons bore the same name, and confusion was likely to be caused, ambiguity was avoided by adding the name of the father […]

   1945, E[lizabeth] G[idley] Withycombe, “Introduction”, in The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page xiii

   Synonyms: equal, equivalent, identical

2. not comparableLacking variety from; indistinguishable.
3. not comparableSimilar, alike.

   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.

   1909 September 9, Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], “A Court Ball”, in The Squire’s Daughter, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC, page 9

   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.

   1935, George Goodchild, chapter 1, in Death on the Centre Court

   Synonyms: alike, similar

4. not comparableUsed to express the unity of an object or person which has various different descriptions or qualities.

   We were all going in the same direction.

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

5. not comparableA reply of confirmation of identity.

   King Lear: This is a dull sight. Are you not Kent? Kent: The same.

   c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii]

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   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

   1994, Clerks

1. not comparableThe same way; in the same manner; to the same extent, unchanged; equally.

   A mother loves all her children the same.

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

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

1. The identical thing, ditto.

   It's the same everywhere.

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   The same can be said of him.

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

2. Something similar, something of the identical type.

   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.

   1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter V, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC

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

   The question is his credibility or lack of same.

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

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

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

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

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

   Synonyms: this, +1, like, likewise, IAWTP

comparative more same · superlative most same

1. UKdialectalobsoleteTogether.

1. A district capital of Manufahi District in East Timor
2. A town in Tanzania.

1. abbreviationacronymclimatologyAcronym of Specific Area Message Encoding.