share

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ʃɛə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ʃɛəɹ/

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• Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)

From Middle English schare, schere, from Old English scearu (“a cutting, shaving, a shearing, tonsure, part, division, share”), from Proto-Germanic *skarō (“a division, detachment”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱar-, *skar- (“to 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.

share (plural shares)

1. A portion of something, especially a portion given or allotted to someone.
2. (finance) A financial instrument that shows that one owns a part of a company that provides the benefit of limited liability.
3. (computing) A configuration enabling a resource to be shared over a network.

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

4. (Internet) The action of sharing something with other people via social media.
   • 2016, Brooke Warner, Green-Light Your Book

     Social media is supervisual, and there's nothing more shareable than images, so this is a way to increase shares and likes and follows.

5. The sharebone or pubis.

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• elective share
• fair share
• forced share
• lion's share
• market share
• share and share alike
• share capital
• shareholder
• statutory share
• usage share
• widow's share

share (third-person singular simple present shares, present participle sharing, simple past and past participle shared)

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.

   • (Can we date this quote?) John Milton

     while avarice and rapine share the land

   • 1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter I, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, OCLC 7780546; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., 55 Fifth Avenue, [1933], OCLC 2666860, page 0056:

     Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.

3. To divide and distribute.
   • (Can we date this quote?) Jonathan Swift

     Suppose I share my fortune equally between my children and a stranger.

4. To tell to another.

   He shared his story with the press.

   • 2013 June 21, Oliver Burkeman, “The tao of tech”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 27:

     The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about […], or offering services that let you […] "share the things you love with the world" and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention.

From Middle English share, schare, shaar, from Old English scear, scær (“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.

share (plural shares)

1. (agriculture) The cutting blade of an agricultural machine like a plough, a cultivator or a seeding-machine.

• ploughshare
• plowshare
• sharebeam

share (third-person singular simple present shares, present participle sharing, simple past and past participle shared)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To cut; to shear; to cleave; to divide.
   • (Can we date this quote?) John Dryden

     The shared visage hangs on equal sides.

• Asher, Rahes, Shear, asher, earsh, hares, harse, hears, rheas, sehar, sehra, shear

share

1. Rōmaji transcription of しゃれ
2. Rōmaji transcription of シャレ

From Old Irish is ferr (“it’s better”), from Proto-Celtic *werros, from Proto-Indo-European *wers- (“peak”). Akin to Latin verrūca (“steep place, height”), Lithuanian viršùs (“top, head”) and Old Church Slavonic врьхъ (vrĭxŭ, “top, peak”). Compare Irish fearr.

share

1. comparative degree of mie

   Share çhyndaa cabbil ayns mean ny h-aah na goll er vaih.

   Better to change horses in mid ford than to drown.

Borrowed from English share.

share m (plural shares)

1. (television) share of the audience
   • 2000, Valerio Fuenzalida, La televisión pública en América Latina: reforma o privatización:

     Ambos muestran problemas de administración con fuerte inestabilidad y graves problemas económicos, con baja sintonía y credibilidad por ser canales del gobierno; en 1998 tuvo un share promedio de 3,3% (Television Latin America, 1999; Cfr. La Industria Audiovisual Iberoamericana, 1998).

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   • 2003, Eduardo Ladrón de Guevara, Querido maestro: dos en un sofá‎, volume 2:

     En concreto, en la primera temporada (2001- 2002), la serie alcanza una media de 5,5 millones de espectadores y un share de 33,3%.

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   • 2005, Albor Rodríguez, Misses de Venezuela: reinas que cautivaron a un país:

     De acuerdo a las estadísticas de la planta, el Miss Venezuela es el programa más visto de la televisión venezolana con un share de 75,9% […]

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