share

A portion of something, especially a portion given or allotted to someone.

Noun

  1. A portion of something, especially a portion given or allotted to someone.
    • Each of the robbers took a share of the loot.
    • The TV programme was cancelled because it only gained a 10% share of that night's viewing audience.
    • SWR has more than its fair share of major national events. As well as the [Queen's] funeral and the coronation in the past 12 months, annual events include racing at Ascot, grand slam tennis at Wimbledon, and rugby...
  2. A financial instrument that shows that one owns a part of a company that provides the benefit of limited liability.
  3. A configuration enabling a resource to be shared over a network.
    • Upload media from the browser or directly to the file share.
  4. The action of sharing something with other people via social media.
    • Social media is supervisual, and there's nothing more shareable than images, so this is a way to increase shares and likes and follows. - 2016, Brooke Warner, Green-Light Your Book:
  5. The sharebone or pubis.
    • 1606: translation by Philemon Holland of Suetonius, De vita Cæsarum [Domitian 17] — [H]ee stabbed him beneth in the very share neere unto his privie parts.

Origin

From Middle English schare, schere, from Old English sċearu (“a cutting, shaving, a shearing, tonsure, part, division, share”), from Proto-West Germanic *skaru, from Proto-Germanic *skarō (“a division, detachment”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut, divide”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian skar, sker (“a share in a communal pasture”), Dutch schare (“share in property”), German Schar (“band, troop, party, company”), Icelandic skor (“department”). Compare shard, shear. Doublet of eschel.

Forms

shares

Derived

angel's share angels' share bikeshare bottle share broadshare capital share codeshare down-share elective share equity share fair share flatshare forced share golden share groundshare homeshare houseshare jobshare labor share labour share leonine share lion's share market share mind share

Noun agriculture, business

  1. The cutting blade of an agricultural machine like a plough, a cultivator or a seeding-machine.
    • The golden harvest, of a mellow brown, Upturn'd so lately by the fearful share. - 1785, William Cowper, The Task, Book IV:

Origin

From Middle English schar, schare, from Old English sċear, sċær (“ploughshare”), from Proto-Germanic *skaraz (“ploughshare”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut”). Cognate with Dutch schaar (“ploughshare”), dialectal German Schar (“ploughshare”), Danish (plov)skær (“ploughshare”). More at shear.

Forms

shares

Derived

ploughshare plowshare sharebeam

Verb Entry 3

  1. To give part of what one has to somebody else to use or consume.
  2. To have or use in common.
    • to share a shelter with another
    • They share a language.
    • While Avarice and Rapine ſhare the Land. - a. 1675, John Milton, On the Lord General Fairfax at the Siege of Colchester; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John...
  3. To divide and distribute.
    • [S]uppose I ſhare my Fortune equally between my own Children, and a Stranger whom I take into my Protection; will that be a Method to unite them? - 1708 December 15 (Gregorian calendar; date written), [Jonathan Swift],...
  4. To tell to another.
    • He shared his story with the press.
    • The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about […] offering services that let you[…]“share the things you love with the world”...
  5. To allow public or private sharing of resources in a network, or content on social media.
    • to share a folder, a screen
    • to share a video, a playlist

Forms

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Derived

a problem shared is a problem halved a sorrow shared is a sorrow halved a trouble shared is a trouble halved bedshare beshare broadshare carshare codeshare flatshare groundshare jobshare misshare overshare pre-shared pre-shared key reshare screenshare sharable share a bed shareability shareable sharebait sharecrop sharecropping

Verb obsolete, transitive

  1. To cut; to shear; to cleave; to divide.
    • The shar'd visage hangs on equal sides. - 1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson,...

Forms

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