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same

same

612 1.0
Equal in amount or value to another thing
  • adjective
  • /seɪm/
: mismo
  • So the domestic demand remains the same as before, OK.
  • the same amount
  • pay the same
  • receive the same amount

How does, how do things have the same value when you know that?

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Examples

  • The average quality score for students with LD was the same in both situations.

    Academic text (2013)
  • I've got the same problem.

  • You have the same or less bill, right?

  • Not everyone has the same opportunities

  • Your payments will be the same next month as they were last month.

  • There was approximately the same number of male and female migrant workers in the sample.

    Academic text (2008)
  • I'll pick you up on the same corner at three thirty-five, okay?

    Fiction book (1997)
  • Your payments will be same next month as they were last month.

  • There was approximately the same number of male and female migrant workers in the sample.

  • We just want to know that we have the same legal rights as any other family.

Synonyms

identical
vssame
257 2.9

Being exactly the same in every detail as another

is about equality in amount or value rather than exact detail
equivalent
vssame
117 3.5

Equal in value, amount, function, meaning, or effect to something else

is equal in amount or worth rather than in function or meaning
30 3.9

Exactly the same person or thing

is used to stress exact identity rather than numerical equality

Antonyms

27 3.0

Not the same in amount or quality

Idioms

During the same time or moment

Shows a contrast with what was just said

Having the same view about a plan or goal

59 3.3

To say something is true despite what was just said

in the same boat
  • Informal
36 3.2

Having the same problems as other people

Exactly the same person or thing

For the same reason as what was said before

When no one likes one choice more than another

11 5.5

To say two things almost at the same time, often when they do not agree with each other

same old story
  • Informal
11 3.7

A situation that happens again and again and feels boring

Share the same ideas and understand each other

same difference
  • Informal
8 6.0

A phrase people use to say two things do not matter

6 5.2

Very similar in character and background

Unfairly judge a whole group because of one person's actions

To do two simple things at the same time

To agree with others, often in public

1 4.6

In the same situation as someone else

No two experiences are exactly the same

1 9.9

The same problems stay even when things change

To agree with others and express the same view

People or things that have similar beliefs and qualities

A situation where different people bring the same problems

To stop being angry and be happy again without changing anything

'zackly the same
  • Informal
9.9

Completely the same in every detail

Compounds

A legal partnership between two people of the same sex

19 9.9

A language spoken by the Sámi people in northern Scandinavia and northwest Russia

Dishonest actions by politicians to win votes that happen again and again

Surface Forms

same positive

Etymology

Same comes from an old German word sam meaning 'one' or 'together'. That is why when amounts are the same, they are equal and there is 'no difference' in number or value.