Same vs False - What's the difference?
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Not different or other; not another or others; not different as regards self; selfsame; identical.
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, 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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, title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=1
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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:
* 1994 , (Clerks) :
The identical thing, ditto.
Something similar, something of the identical type.
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, title= It or them, without a connotation of similarity.
It or them, as above, meaning the last object mentioned, mainly as complement: on the same'', ''for the same .
Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
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, title= Based on factually incorrect premises: false legislation
Spurious, artificial.
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*:At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy?; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
(lb) Of a state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result.
Uttering falsehood; dishonest or deceitful.
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Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.
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*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:I to myself was false , ere thou to me.
Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.
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*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:whose false foundation waves have swept away
Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
(lb) Out of tune.
As a noun same
is dog's, excrements.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.same
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Adjective
(-)- 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.
George Goodchild
- ''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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- ''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, alikeAntonyms
* different, other, anotherDerived 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-samePronoun
(English Pronouns)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.}}
- 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)
- 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 youEtymology 2
From (etyl) (m), (m), (m), (also (m), (m)), from (etyl) .Statistics
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Adjective
(er)A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles: Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by the Philological Society, section=Part 1, publisher=Clarendon Press, location=Oxford, editor= , volume=1, page=217 , passage=Also the rule of false position, with dyuers examples not onely vulgar, but some appertaynyng to the rule of Algeber.}}
