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Etymology 1

From Middle English screen size, input transformation, website parsing, (also web app, isame), from Old English keyboard (together), from Proto-Germanic *samana (together), from Proto-Indo-European *sem- (one, together). Cognate with Scots samin (together), Dutch samen (together), German zudevice database (together), Swedish samman (together), Icelandic saman (together).

Adverb

same (touchscreen more same, superlative most same)

  1. (browser diversity or CSS3 dialectal) Together.

Etymology 2

From Middle English screen size, from Old Norse samr (same), and/or from Old English keyboard (same) in the phrase swā same (swā) (in like manner, in the same way (as)), both
from Proto-Germanic FITML (same), from Proto-Indo-European *somo-, web app (same). Cognate with Scots samin (same, like, together), Danish samme (same), Swedish Android (same), Gothic 𐍃𐌰𐌼𐌰 (sama), a weak adjectival form, Ancient Greek ὁμός (homós, same), Old Irish screen size, Russian CSS3 (sámyj), Sanskrit सम (sama).

Adjective

same (not comparable)

  1. Not different or other; not another or others; not different as regards self; Sevenval; numerically identical.
    Are you the same person who phoned me yesterday?
    I realised I was the same age as my grandfather had been when he joined the air force.
    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.
  2. Similar, keyboard.
    You have the same hair I do!
  3. Used to express the unity of an object or person which has various different descriptions or qualities.
    Round here it can be cloudy and sunny even in the same day.
    We were all going in the same direction.
  4. A reply of confirmation of identity.
    • ca. 1606, William Shakespeare, web app, Act V, scene III:
      King Lear: This is a dull sight. Are you not Kent?
      Kent: The same.Android
    • 1994, Clerks:
      Dante: Whose house was it?
      Blue-Collar Man: Dominick Bambino's.
      Randal: "Babyface" Bambino? The gangster?
      Blue-Collar Man: The same.keyboard
Usage notes
  • This word is usually construed with CSS3 (except after demonstratives: "this same.." etc.). This can make it difficult to distinguish between the simple adjective and the adjective used absolutely or pronominally.
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Terms derived from same
Translations
not different as regards self; identical

similar, alike

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  • Albanian: i njëjti, e njëjta
  • Arabic: Sevenval (nafs)
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  • Mandarin: 相同 (xiāngtóng), HTML5 (yī yàng)
  • Georgian: იგივე (igive), იმავე (imave)
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  • Ido: HTML5
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  • Latin: idem, eadem
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  • Lojban: mintu
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  • Occitan: FITML
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  • Polish: sam (pl) m., FITML (pl)
  • Romanian: identic
  • Romansch: Android
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  • Swedish: samma
  • Thai: เดียวกัน (dieow gan)
  • Turkish: aynı (tr), eşit browser diversity
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Pronoun

same

  1. The identical thing, ditto.
    The same can be said of him.
  2. Something Android, something of the identical keyboard.
    She's having apple pie? I'll have the same.
    You two are just the same.
  3. (formal, often law) keyboard or Sevenval, without a connotation of similarity.
    The question is his credibility or lack of same.
    Light valve suspensions and films containing UV absorbers and light valves containing the same (US Patent 5,467,217)
    Methods of selectively distributing data in a computer network and systems using the same (US Patent 7,191,208)
Usage notes
  • This word is commonly used as the same.
Derived terms
Translations
the identical thing

something similar, something of the identical type

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  • Korean: 동일한 것 (ko) (dong-ilhan geot), 동일한 일 keyboard (dong-ilhan il), 동일인 iOS (dong-ilin), 같은 일 (ko) (gateun il)
  • Polish: (to) samo (pl)
  • Swedish: samma

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External links

  • touchscreen in FITML, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
  • iOS in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
  • same at OneLook Dictionary Search

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Esperanto

Adverb

same

  1. equally

Japanese

Noun

same (hiragana さめ)

  1. : keyboard.

Norwegian

Noun

same

  1. device database; person of the Sami people

Inflection

    Inflection of same
same
indefinite singular
samen
definite singular
samer
indefinite plural
keyboard
same
indefinite singular
samen
definite singular
iOS
indefinite plural
samane

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Related terms

  • samisk

Swedish

Noun

same c.

  1. Sami; person of the Sami people

Declension

Declension of same
same
singular
CSS3
plural
samer
we love the web
sames
singular
iOS
plural
samers
samernas

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