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//ʃɛə// name, noun, verb

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    A portion of something, especially a portion given or allotted to someone.

    "Each of the robbers took a share of the loot."

  2. 2
    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."

  3. 3
    the effort contributed by a person in bringing about a result wordnet
  4. 4
    A financial instrument that shows that one owns a part of a company that provides the benefit of limited liability.
  5. 5
    the allotment of some amount by dividing something wordnet
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  1. 6
    A configuration enabling a resource to be shared over a network.

    "Upload media from the browser or directly to the file share."

  2. 7
    a sharp steel wedge that cuts loose the top layer of soil wordnet
  3. 8
    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."

  4. 9
    assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group wordnet
  5. 10
    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."

  6. 11
    any of the equal portions into which the capital stock of a corporation is divided and ownership of which is evidenced by a stock certificate wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To give part of what one has to somebody else to use or consume.
  2. 2
    To cut; to shear; to cleave; to divide. obsolete, transitive

    "The shar'd visage hangs on equal sides."

  3. 3
    communicate wordnet
  4. 4
    To have or use in common.

    "to share a shelter with another"

  5. 5
    give out as one's portion or share wordnet
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  1. 6
    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?"

  2. 7
    have, give, or receive a share of wordnet
  3. 8
    To tell to another.

    "He shared his story with the press."

  4. 9
    use jointly or in common wordnet
  5. 10
    To allow public or private sharing of resources in a network, or content on social media.

    "to share a folder, a screen"

  6. 11
    have in common wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

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.

Etymology 2

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.

Etymology 3

From Middle English share, schare, shaar, 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.

Etymology 4

From Middle English share, schare, shaar, 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.

Etymology 5

* As an English surname, perhaps a variant of Shear. * As a Serbo-Croatian surname, Americanized from Šare, Sare.

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