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ditto | same |

As adverbs the difference between ditto and same

is that ditto is as said before, likewise while same is together.

As a noun ditto

is that which was stated before, the aforesaid, the above, the same, likewise.

As a verb ditto

is to repeat the aforesaid, the earlier action etc.

As an interjection ditto

is used to show agreement with what another person has said.

As an adjective same is

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

As a pronoun same is

the identical thing, ditto.

As a proper noun Same is

a district capital of Manufahi District in East Timor.

ditto

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • That which was stated before, the aforesaid, the above, the same, likewise.
  • * Charles Dickens
    • A spacious table in the centre, and a variety of smaller dittos in the corners.
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  • (informal) A duplicate or copy of a document, particularly one created by a spirit duplicator
    • Please run off twenty-four dittos of this assignment, for my students.
  • A copy; an imitation.
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  • A symbol, represented by two apostrophes, inverted commas, or quotation marks (" "), when indicating that the item preceding is to be repeated.

    • Synonyms

    * (symbol) ditto mark, (abbreviation)

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • As said before, likewise.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To repeat the aforesaid, the earlier action etc.
  • * 1989 , K. K. N. Kurup, Agrarian struggles in Kerala
    • The Communists believed that Prakasam, the Prime Minister, never tried to check the bureaucracy but dittoed every action of the corrupt officials and police.

    Synonyms

    * ape * echo

    Interjection

    (head)
  • Used to show agreement with what another person has said.
  • *Boy: "I'm really busy today!"
  • *Girl: "Ditto! "

    • Derived terms

    * suit of dittoes * ditto suit

    same

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Not different or other; not another or others; not different as regards self; selfsame; identical.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), Chapter=1 , passage=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.}}
  • Similar, alike.
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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.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1935, author= George Goodchild
    • , title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=1 , passage=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.}}
  • Used to express the unity of an object or person which has various different descriptions or qualities.
  • A reply of confirmation of identity.
  • * ca. 1606 , (William Shakespeare), (King Lear) , Act V, scene III:
    • ''King Lear: This is a dull sight. Are you not Kent?
    Kent: The same . [http://www.rhymezone.com/r/gwic.cgi?Path=shakespeare/tragedies/kinglear/v_iii//&Word=the+same,
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  • * 1994 , (Clerks) :
    • ''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]
    Usage notes
    * This word is usually construed with the (except after demonstratives: "this same.." etc.). This can make it difficult to distinguish between the simple adjective and the adjective used absolutely or pronominally.
    Synonyms
    * (identical) identical, equal, equivalent * (similar) similar, alike
    Antonyms
    * different, other, another
    Derived terms
    * by the same token * of the same stripe * same-blooded * same difference * sameish * samely * sameness * same old same old * same old story * same-sex * self-same

    Pronoun

    (English Pronouns)
  • The identical thing, ditto.
  • Something similar, something of the identical type.
  • * , chapter=5
    • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=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.}}
  • It or them, without a connotation of similarity.
    • 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)
  • It 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 .
    Usage notes
    * This word is commonly used as the same .
    Derived terms
    * all the same * one and the same * same to you

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) (m), (m), (m), (also (m), (m)), from (etyl) .

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • Together.

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