Samey

Definition

same /seÇm/ adj ၁။ the ~ sb/sth (as sb/sth/that…) (also sometimes preceded by this/that/these/those ) တစ္…တည္း။ We have lived in the same house for twenty years. ❍ He took it off the top shelf and put it back in the same place. ❍ He is the same age as his wife. ❍ She's aged a lot but she is still the same fun-loving person I knew at university. ❍ They both said the same thing. ❍ She did it for the same reason. ❍ I saw the mistake at the (very) same moment that she did. ❍ I resigned last Friday and left that same day. ၂။ the ~ sb/sth (as sb/sth/that…) တစ္…တည္း။ I saw the same shoes last week for £ 5 less. ❍ I bought the same car as yours/that you did (ie another car of that type). pron ၁။ the ~(as sb/sth/…) (က) ဒီအတိုင္း။ အတူတူ။ He and I said the same. ❍ I think the same (as you do) about this. ❍ I would do the same again. ❍ ( infml ) ‘I'll have a coffee. ’ ‘Same for me, please (ie I will have one, too). ’ (ခ) အတူတူ။ Their ages are the same. ❍ Have you got another pair the same? ❍ He'd like one the same as yours. ၂။ the ~ ( Brit fml or joc ) သူပါပဲ။ မလြဲပါဘူး။ ‘Was it George who telephoned?’ ‘The same (ie Yes, it was George)’. ၃။ ( fml or joc ) ဒါကိုပဲ။ To dry-cleaning suit, £8; to repairing same , £4.50. ❏ all/just the same [ IDM ] ေသာ္ျငားလည္း။ ဒါေပမဲ့။ All the same, there's some truth in what she says. ❍ He's not very reliable, but I like him just the same. ❍ I didn't need your screwdriver, but thanks all the same (ie for lending it). ❏ amount to / come to / be the same thing [ IDM ] အတူတူ။ You can pay by cash or cheque: it comes to the same thing. ❏ at the same time [ IDM ] ၁။ တစ္ၿပိဳင္တည္း။ Don't all speak at the same time. ❍ She was laughing and crying at the same time. ၂။ တစ္ခ်ိန္တည္း(မွာပင္)။ You've got to be firm, but at the same time you must be sympathetic. ❏ be all one / all the same to sb [ IDM ] အတူတူ။ It's all the same to me whether we eat now or later. ❏ be in the same boat [ IDM ] တစ္ေလွတည္းစီး။ အတူတူ။ She and I are in the same boat — we both failed the exam. ❏ by the same token [ IDM ] ( fml ) ထိုအေၾကာင္းေၾကာင့္ပင္။ She must be more reasonable, but by the same token you must try to understand her point of view. ❏ in the same breath [ IDM ] တစ္ခ်ိန္တည္းမွာပင္။ He praised my work and in the same breath told me I would have to leave. ❏ one and the same [ IDM ] အတူတူပဲ။ တစ္ေယာက္တည္း ပဲ။ It turns out that her aunt and my cousin are one and the same. ❏ the same adv နည္းတူ။ မျခား။ I still feel the same about it. ❍ Babies all look the same to me. ❍ The two words are spelled differently, but pronounced the same. ❏ (the) same again [ IDM ] ဒါမ်ဳိးပဲ။ Same again, please! ❏ same here [ IDM ] ( infml ) အတူတူ။ ‘I hate this book. ’ ‘Same here. ’ ❍ ‘I'm not very good at history. ’ ‘Same here. ’ ❏ sameness n [U] အေျပာင္းအလဲမရိွျခင္း။ the tedious sameness of winter days indoors. ❏ the same old story [ IDM ] ျဖစ္ေနက်အတိုင္း။ It's the same old story: everybody wants to go on holiday, but nobody is prepared to make the arrangements. ❏ (the) same to you [ IDM ] ထိုနည္းအတိုင္း။ ‘Happy Christmas!’ ‘And the same to you!’ ❍ ‘Get lost!’ ‘Same to you!’ ❏ samey /'seÇmi/ adj ( Brit infml derog ) တစ္ခါလာ မဲျပာ ပုဆိုး။ The music is all a bit samey.

Examples

1. Sometimes UN troops and their commanders may not even speak the same language.
2. [the same... as] : We were staying at the same hotel as our parents.
3. [the same... that] : Was this the same Timothy Evans that Carol had been at school with?
4. [this/that/these/those same] : At first many schools resisted the reforms
5. but those same schools are now seeing the most improvement.
6. [the very same] : I was born on the very same day that my father died.
7. ‘Do you mean Vendelin Gajdusek
8. the Czech writer?’ ‘The very same!’
9. She did not want to make the same mistake again.
10. The two pictures look the same to me – I can’t tell them apart.
11. [the same... as] : Her eyes are the same colour as yours.
12. Animals feel pain the same as we do.
13. [just the same] : Kevin gets bored very quickly. His Dad was just the same.
14. [much the same] : Stuart’s opinion on this subject was much the same as mine.
15. The Government’s policy has remained the same since 1991.
16. [the same as] : ‘How is Frances?’ ‘Oh
17. she’s still the same as always.’
18. [much the same] : The countryside looks much the same as it did 200 years ago.
19. The four sides of a square are all the same length.
20. [the same as] : One centimetre is the same as ten millimetres.
21. A one-bedroom flat in London costs almost the same as a five-bedroom house in Liverpool.