share
Meanings
noun
- A portion of something, especially a portion given or allotted to someone.
- A financial instrument that shows that one owns a part of a company that provides the benefit of limited liability.
- A configuration enabling a resource to be shared over a network.
- The action of sharing something with other people via social media.
- The sharebone or pubis.
verb
- To give part of what one has to somebody else to use or consume.
- To have or use in common.
- To divide and distribute.
- To tell to another.
- To allow public or private sharing of resources in a network, or content on social media.
noun
- The cutting blade of an agricultural machine like a plough, a cultivator or a seeding-machine.
verb
- To cut; to shear; to cleave; to divide.
name
- A surname.
Pronunciation
Word forms
Etymology
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.
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