Same vs Twice - What's the difference?
same | twice |
Not different or other; not another or others; not different as regards self; selfsame; identical.
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, 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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* {{quote-book, year=1935, author=
, 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:
* 1994 , (Clerks) :
The identical thing, ditto.
Something similar, something of the identical type.
* , chapter=5
, 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 .
Two times.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5
, passage=He could not be induced to remain permanently at Mohair because Miss Trevor was at Asquith, but he appropriated a Hempstead cart from the Mohair stables and made the trip sometimes twice in a day.}}
* 1934 , (Santa Claus Is Coming to Town)
(nonstandard, proscribed)
* {{quote-book, year=1826, author=John Nicholson, publisher=H.C. Carey & I. Lea
, title=The Operative Mechanic, and British Machinist: Being a Practical Display of the Manufactories and Mechanical Arts of the United Kingdom, volume=1
, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=TJUAAAAAMAAJ&dq=%22twice%20as%20slow%22&pg=PA78v=onepage&q=%22twice%20as%20slow%22&f=false
, page=78}}
* {{quote-book, title=Domesticated Trout: How to Breed and Grow Them, year=1896, edition=fourth
, page=304, author=Livingston Stone
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* {{quote-book, year=2010, title=Roman Polanski: A Life in Exile, first=Julia, last=Ain-krupa, publisher=ABC-CLIO, page=31
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In a doubled quantity or extent.
To a doubled degree.
As a noun same
is dog's, excrements.As an adverb twice is
two times.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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English
Adverb
(-)- Santa Claus is coming to town. / He’s making a list, / And checking it twice , / He’s gonna find out who’s naughty or nice. / Santa Claus is coming to town.
- Thus it appears that if the machine is turning twice as slow as before, there is more than twice the former quantity in the rising buckets; and more will be raised in a minute by the same expenditure of power.
- You can't get anything thinner than a spring shad, unless you take a couple of them, when, of course, they will be twice as thin.
- Standing in the lower portion of the boat, he apologizes while Krystyna paces above him, saying that he's just like Andrzej, “only half his age and twice as dumb.”