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Same is a synonym of equal.



As adjectives the difference between equal and same

is that equal is the same in all respects while same is not different or other; not another or others; not different as regards self; selfsame; identical.

As a verb equal

is to be equal to, to have the same value as; to correspond to.

As a noun equal

is a person or thing of equal status to others.

As a pronoun same is

the identical thing, ditto.

As an adverb same is

together.

As a proper noun Same is

a district capital of Manufahi District in East Timor.

equal

English

Alternative forms

* (archaic) * (archaic)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (label) The same in all respects.
  • * (1671-1743)
    • They who are not disposed to receive them may let them alone or reject them; it is equal to me.
  • Exactly identical, having the same value.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=10 , passage=The skipper Mr. Cooke had hired at Far Harbor was a God-fearing man with a luke warm interest in his new billet and employer, and had only been prevailed upon to take charge of the yacht after the offer of an emolument equal to half a year's sea pay of an ensign in the navy.}}
  • (label) Fair, impartial.
  • * 1644 , (John Milton), (Aeropagitica) :
    • it could not but much redound to the lustre of your milde and equall Government, when as private persons are hereby animated to thinke ye better pleas'd with publick advice, then other statists have been delighted heretofore with publicke flattery.
  • * Bible, (w) xviii. 29
    • Are not my ways equal ?
  • * (Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
    • Thee, O Jove, no equal judge I deem.
  • (label) Adequate; sufficiently capable or qualified.
  • * 1881 , (Jane Austen), , p. 311
    • her comprehension was certainly more equal to the covert meaning, the superior intelligence, of those five letters so arranged.
  • * (1609-1674)
    • The Scots trusted not their own numbers as equal to fight with the English.
  • * (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
    • It is not permitted to me to make my commendations equal to your merit.
  • * (Ralph Waldo Emerson) (1803-1882)
    • whose voice an equal messenger / Conveyed thy meaning mild.
  • (label) Not variable; equable; uniform; even.
  • * (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
    • an equal temper
  • (label) Intended for voices of one kind only, either all male or all female; not mixed.

    • Usage notes

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    Synonyms

    * (the same in all respects) identical * (exactly identical) equivalent, identical * (unvarying) even, fair, uniform, unvarying

    Verb

  • (mathematics) To be equal to, to have the same value as; to correspond to.
    • Two plus two equals four.
  • To be equivalent to; to match
  • * 2004 , Mary Levy and Jim Kelly, Marv Levy: Where Else Would You Rather Be?
    • There was an even more remarkable attendance figure that underscores the devotion exhibited by our fans, because it was in 1991 that they set a single season in-stadium attendance record that has never been equaled .
  • (informal) To have as its consequence.
    • Losing this deal equals losing your job.
    Might does not equal right.

    Synonyms

    * (to be equal to) be, is * (sense) entail, imply, lead to, mean, result in, spell

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person or thing of equal status to others.
    • We're all equals here.
    This beer has no equal .
  • * Addison
    • Those who were once his equals envy and defame him.
  • (obsolete) State of being equal; equality.
    • (Spenser)

    Synonyms

    * (person or thing of equal status to others) peer

    Derived terms

    * equally * equalize/equalise * unequal * equal temperament

    Related terms

    * equality

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    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.
  • *
    • 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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