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Juxtaposition vs Same - What's the difference?

juxtaposition | same |

As nouns the difference between juxtaposition and same

is that juxtaposition is the nearness of objects with no delimiter while same is dog's, excrements.

As a verb juxtaposition

is to place in juxtaposition.

juxtaposition

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The nearness of objects with no delimiter.
  • # (grammar) An absence of linking elements in a group of words that are listed together.
  • Example: mother father'' instead of ''mother and father
  • # (mathematics) An absence of operators in an expression.
  • Using juxtaposition for multiplication saves space when writing longer expressions. a \times b \! collapses to ab\!.
  • #* 2007 , Lawrence Moss and Hans-Jörg Tiede, Applications of Modal Logic in Linguistics'', in: P. Blackburn et al (eds), ''Handbook of Modal Logic , Elsevier, p. 1054
  • A fundamental operation on strings is string concatenation which we will denote by juxtaposition .
  • The extra emphasis given to a comparison when the contrasted objects are close together.
    • There was a poignant juxtaposition between the boys laughing in the street and the girl crying on the balcony above.
  • # (arts) Two or more contrasting sounds, colours, styles etc. placed together for stylistic effect.
  • The juxtaposition of the bright yellows on the dark background made the painting appear three dimensional.
  • # (rhetoric) The close placement of two ideas to imply a link that may not exist.
  • Example: In 1965 the government was elected; in 1965 the economy took a dive.

    • Related terms

    * juxtapose * juxtaposed

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To place in juxtaposition.

    • References

    * DeLone et. al. (Eds.) (1975). Aspects of Twentieth-Century Music. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall. ISBN 0130493465. Music. ----

    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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