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[ adjective ] same in identity
Examples "the same man I saw yesterday" "never wore the same dress twice" "this road is the same one we were on yesterday" "on the same side of the street" Used in print (St. Louis Post-Dispatch,...)They have the same men , no age problem , no injuries and they also have Vinegar_Bend_Mizell for the full season , along with Bobby_Shantz '' . (The Times-Picayune, [New Orleans]...)An ordinary hot bath or shower will do the same . ("Editorials"...)If some future Khrushchev decided to rake_up the misdeeds of his revered predecessor , would not the factory_workers pass the same resolutions applauding his dispossession ? (The Christian Science Monitor,...)About that same time John_Crosby 's TV series on the popular arts proved again that giving jazz ample breathing_space is one of the most sensible things a producer can do . They are definitely in the same room with you , but your head starts to swing as though you were sitting on the very edge of a tennis_court watching a spirited volley . |
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[ adjective ] closely similar or comparable in kind or quality or quantity or degree
Examples "curtains the same color as the walls" "two girls of the same age" "animals of the same species" "the same rules as before" "the same day next year" Used in print (St. Louis Post-Dispatch,...)For_that_matter , Stan_Musial is rare , possessing the disposition that enabled him to put_out the same for seven managers , reserving his opinions , but not his effort . (William G. Pollard, Physicist and Christian....)The concept of unity , in which positive and negative are attributes of the same force , in which good and evil are relative , ever-changing , and always joined to the same phenomenon - such a concept is still reserved to the physical_sciences and to the few who have grasped the history of ideas . The concept of unity , in which positive and negative are attributes of the same force , in which good and evil are relative , ever-changing , and always joined to the same phenomenon - such a concept is still reserved to the physical_sciences and to the few who have grasped the history of ideas . It is they , of_course , who keep it alive and preserve it so the same spirit will continue to be present in the Corps for future recruits to find as they come into it . (Schubert Ogden, Christ Without Myth....)The same thing is also evidenced by the extreme `` culture Protestantism '' so often observed to characterize the preaching and teaching of the American churches . |
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[ adjective ] equal in amount or value
Synonyms Examples "like amounts" "equivalent amounts" "the same amount" "gave one six blows and the other a like number" "an equal number" "the same number" Used in print (Richard I. McCosh, "Recreation Site Selection"...)Frontage on a body of clear , clean water will be vastly different from the same amount of frontage on polluted water . (Cornell H. Mayer, "Radio Emission of the Moon...)The received radiation is compared with the radiation from a hypothetical black-body which subtends the same solid_angle as the visible disk of the planet . (Harry H. Hull, "The Normal Forces and Their Ther...)( B ) That because of the low viscosity of the fluid , the internal pressure is the same in all directions . (Jay C. Harris and John R. Van Wazer, "Detergent...)In the household market , there are also low-sudsing detergent formulations based on nonionic actives with about the same amount of phosphate builder ; light-duty synthetic detergents with much less builder ; and the dwindling built soap_powders as_well_as soap_flakes and granules , none of which are now nationally advertised . (J. F. Vedder, "Micrometeorites", in Francis S. J...)They quote about the same mass threshold as that of the U.S. apparatus , but a momentum threshold about 40 times greater . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] unchanged in character or nature
Examples "the village stayed the same" "his attitude is the same as ever" Used in print (Nathan Rapport, ""I've Been Here before!"...)Emerson , in his lecture , refers to the `` startling experience which almost every person confesses in daylight , that particular passages of conversation and action have occurred to him in the same order before , whether dreaming or waking , a suspicion that they have been with precisely these persons in precisely this room , and heard precisely this dialogue , at some former hour , they know not when '' . (Frederick Mosteller et al., Probability with...)The managers stay the same , so that * * f is the same for all weeks . The managers stay the same , so that * * f is the same for all weeks . (Brand Blanshard, "The Emotive Theory," Robert...)And if we can see that what we meant to say remains the same , while the feeling varies from intensity to near zero , it is not the feeling that we primarily meant to express . (Christopher Davis, First Family....)The days seemed short , perhaps because his routine was , each_day , almost the same . Related terms |
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[ adverb ] in the same manner
Examples "you get treated fairly, same as any other student in this course!" Used in print (Your Federal Income Tax. 1962 Edition (Revised to...)Nonresident aliens living in Canada or Mexico who earn wages in the United_States may be subject to withholding of tax on their wages , the same as if they were citizens of the United_States . (Gene Caesar, Rifle for Rent....)If you do n't leave this country within 3 days , your life will be taken the same as Powell 's was . All through Albany and Laramie counties , other men were doing the same . (Peter Field, Rattlesnake Ridge....)`` You do the same . |
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