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Same can be an adjective or a pronoun.
same used as an adjective:
- Identical.
"Are you the same person who phoned me yesterday?" - Similar, alike.
"You have the same hair I do!" - Used to express the unity of an object or person which has various different descriptions or qualities.
"Round here it can be cloudy and sunny even in the same day." - A reply of confirmation of identity.
Adjectives are are describing words. An adjective is a word that modifies a noun or pronoun (examples: small, scary, silly). Adjectives make the meaning of a noun more precise. Learn more →
same used as a pronoun:
- The identical thing, ditto.
"The same can be said of him." - Something similar, something of the identical type.
"She's having apple pie? I'll have the same." - It or them, without a connotation of similarity. Often legal.
"The question is his credibility or lack of same."
A pronoun is a placeholder for a noun. Examples of pronouns are: them, he, they, it. Pronouns make sentences shorter and clearer since they replace nouns. For example, instead of saying 'Emily was happy, so Emily smiled.' you can say 'Emily was happy, so she smiled.' Learn more →
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What type of word is same?
- Adjective usage: Are you the same person who phoned me yesterday?
- Adjective usage: I realised I was the same age as my grandfather had been when he joined the air force.
- Adjective usage: You have the same hair I do!
- Adjective usage: Round here it can be cloudy and sunny even in the same day.
- Adjective usage: We were all going in the same direction.
- Pronoun usage: The same can be said of him.
- Pronoun usage: She's having apple pie? I'll have the same.
- Pronoun usage: You two are just the same.
- Pronoun usage: The question is his credibility or lack of same.
- Pronoun usage: Light valve suspensions and films containing UV absorbers and light valves containing the same (US Patent 5,467,217)
- Pronoun usage: Methods of selectively distributing data in a computer network and systems using the same (US Patent 7,191,208)
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of same are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of same, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).
