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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
same
adj
  1. same in identity; "the same man I saw yesterday"; "never wore the same dress twice"; "this road is the same one we were on yesterday"; "on the same side of the street"
    Antonym(s): other
  2. closely similar or comparable in kind or quality or quantity or degree; "curtains the same color as the walls"; "two girls of the same age"; "mother and son have the same blue eyes"; "animals of the same species"; "the same rules as before"; "two boxes having the same dimensions"; "the same day next year"
    Antonym(s): different
  3. equal in amount or value; "like amounts"; "equivalent amounts"; "the same amount"; "gave one six blows and the other a like number"; "the same number"
    Synonym(s): like, same
    Antonym(s): unlike
  4. unchanged in character or nature; "the village stayed the same"; "his attitude is the same as ever"
n
  1. a member of an indigenous nomadic people living in northern Scandinavia and herding reindeer
    Synonym(s): Lapp, Lapplander, Sami, Saami, Same, Saame
  2. the language of nomadic Lapps in northern Scandinavia and the Kola Peninsula
    Synonym(s): Lapp, Sami, Saami, Same, Saame
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Same \Same\, a. [AS. same, adv.; akin to OS. sama, samo, adv.,
      OHG. sam, a., sama, adv., Icel. samr, a., Sw. samme, samma,
      Dan. samme, Goth. sama, Russ. samuii, Gr. [?], Skr. sama, Gr.
      [?] like, L. simul at the same time, similis like, and E.
      some, a., -some. [root]191. Cf. {Anomalous}, {Assemble},
      {Homeopathy}, {Homily}, {Seem}, v. i., {Semi-}, {Similar},
      {Some}.]
      1. Not different or other; not another or others; identical;
            unchanged.
  
                     Thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end.
                                                                              --Ps. cii. 27.
  
      2. Of like kind, species, sort, dimensions, or the like; not
            differing in character or in the quality or qualities
            compared; corresponding; not discordant; similar; like.
  
                     The ethereal vigor is in all the same. --Dryden.
  
      3. Just mentioned, or just about to be mentioned.
  
                     What ye know, the same do I know.      --Job. xiii.
                                                                              2.
  
                     Do but think how well the same he spends, Who spends
                     his blood his country to relieve.      --Daniel.
  
      Note: Same is commonly preceded by the, this, or that and is
               often used substantively as in the citations above. In
               a comparative use it is followed by as or with.
  
                        Bees like the same odors as we do. --Lubbock.
  
                        [He] held the same political opinions with his
                        illustrious friend.                        --Macaulay.

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   SAME
  
      {Standard ANSI Module language with Extensions}
  
  
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