But victory, and an elegant withdrawal, may eventually come to mean the same thing.
But that won't necessarily mean the same thing in the Rocky Mountains as it will in the Amazon.
But he warned that the success in the trial on mice did not necessarily mean the same results would be found in humans.
Some congressional staffers understand this to mean the same rate must be applied down to the individual program, project and activity level, leaving scant room for tradeoffs.
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He writes only about Americans, thus avoiding the pitfalls of trying to figure out, for example, whether Japanese people mean the same thing as Danes when they say they are happy.
Now--after companies like Bank of America, Citigroup and Merrill Lynch have issued billions of dollars in write-downs because of their exposure to mortgage-related securities--investors took the president's proposal Thursday to mean much the same thing.
The MSCI Emerging Markets Index is only about a half of a standard deviation from its mean over the same time frame.
Equivalence sounds elegant, but the danger is that it will mean more of the same.
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Within the context of work, that might mean working at the same time, batching tasks, setting your environment so you know where things are, and working at the same time every day.
In the standard bell-curve, you will recall, mode, median and mean are all the same.
Just because we can speak the same language doesn't mean we will all end up sounding the same.
Yet whatever the rate of inflation, it will mean either prices stay the same while the amount of the product is decreased or prices rise while the amount of the product stays the same.
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Shadow justice minister Sadiq Khan asked whether the change would mean more, less or the same rights for people.
Mr Lightman welcomed this suggestion - as having the same course content would mean that A-levels and AS-levels in the same subject could be taught in the same class, boosting the uptake of AS-levels.
The change will "simplify the law" and mean carers are treated in the same way as the people they look after, the Welsh government says.
From the other direction, a popular analyst pick could mean that many sharp minds individually came to the same bullish conclusion, and therefore the stock should do well, but it could also mean that if the company stumbles, that would come as a negative surprise.
The new regulations mean that a digital signature has the same legal force as an ink-based one.
Cholesterol UK said if that pattern was repeated among the UK population of 40 million adults, that would mean 12 million people did the same.
Roughly speaking, a coefficient of zero would mean everyone was getting the same income.
But that does not mean they would want the same bank to finance new machinery or to insure their employees' lives.
But after you get to know them, you start to see the differences in our cultures and sometimes personalities clash just because you know we're all international doesn't mean we're the same.
Update: We received some clarification from the NCTA. Apparently in point number two, the word interface does not mean user interface, but at the same time the NCTA does believe that certain user interface screens should be required to be provided by the operator.
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For Rap Genius, doing the same for the internet will mean pulling in large swaths of text from outside the music world, as the site has already started to do, hosting annotated versions of public domain books like The Great Gatsby and court cases like Plessy v.
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So it can mean negative because sometimes the same tribal connotation in Africa would be seen in the European context, whether in the Balkans or even in - I always remember the Hyde Park speaker who said the First and Second World Wars were nothing but the European tribes fighting each other, the German tribe against the French tribe.
And he is right that the current voting system, which could mean that he ends up with the same number of votes as Mr Brown but a third of his seats, is unfair.
Thomas took a harder stance against the choice plans: "Simply putting students together under the same roof does not necessarily mean that the students will learn together or even interact, " he said.
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