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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Same \Same\, adjective [AS. same, adverb; akin to OS. sama, samo, adverb, OHG. sam, adjective, sama, adverb, Icel. samr, adjective, 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. [root]191. Cf. {Anomalous}, {Assemble}, {Homeopathy}, {Homily}, {Seem}, verb (used without an object), {Semi-}, {Similar}, {Some}.]
1. Not different or other; not another or others; identical; unchanged.
Thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end. --Ps. cii. 27.
2. Of like kind, species, sort, dimensions, or the like; not differing in character or in the quality or qualities compared; corresponding; not discordant; similar; like.
The ethereal vigor is in all the same. --Dryden.
3. Just mentioned, or just about to be mentioned.
What ye know, the same do I know. --Job. xiii. 2.
Do but think how well the same he spends, Who spends his blood his country to relieve. --Daniel.
Note: Same is commonly preceded by the, this, or that and is often used substantively as in the citations above. In a comparative use it is followed by as or with.
Bees like the same odors as we do. --Lubbock.
[He] held the same political opinions with his illustrious friend. --Macaulay.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
same
adjective
1: same in identity; "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" [ant: {other}]
2: closely similar or comparable in kind or quality or quantity or degree; "curtains the same color as the walls"; "two girls of the same age"; "mother and son have the same blue eyes"; "animals of the same species"; "the same rules as before"; "two boxes having the same dimensions"; "the same day next year" [ant: {different}]
3: equal in amount or value; "like amounts"; "equivalent amounts"; "the same amount"; "gave one six blows and the other a like number"; "an equal number"; "the same number" [syn: {like}, {equal}, {equivalent}] [ant: {unlike}]
4: unchanged in character or nature; "the village stayed the same"; "his attitude is the same as ever" [syn: {same(p)}]
adverb: in the same manner; "you get treated fairly, same as any other student in this course!"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
109 Moby Thesaurus words for "same": Doppelganger, Tweedledum and Tweedledee, actual thing, aforementioned, aforenamed, aforesaid, alike, all one, all the same, anyhow, anyway, at any rate, beforementioned, boring, but, carbon copy, changeless, coequal, comparable, consistent, constant, consubstantial, copy, dead heat, dead ringer, deadlock, ditto, double, drab, draw, duplicate, equal, equivalent, even break, even so, exact, exact counterpart, exactly alike, facsimile, fair shake, for all that, foregoing, forementioned, forenamed, former, gray, homograph, homonym, homoousian, homophone, humdrum, idem, identic, identical, identical same, in any case, in any event, indistinguishable, invariable, just alike, just the same, knotted score, like, monotonous, named, neck-and-neck race, nevertheless, no other, none other, nonetheless, notwithstanding, one, photo finish, regardless, repetitive, replica, said, samely, selfsame, similar, spit and image, spitting image, stalemate, standoff, synonym, tantamount, tedious, the same, the same difference, tie, twin, unaltered, unchanged, unchanging, undifferent, unfailing, uniform, unmodified, unrelieved, unvaried, unvarying, verbatim, very, very image, very same, without difference, without distinction, word-for-word, yet
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
SAME {Standard ANSI Module language with Extensions}
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