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share¹
- /ʃɛə/ UK
- /ʃɛː/ British, Southern, Standard
- /ʃɛɚ/ US
- /ʃeː/ Australia
- /ʃeə/ New Zealand
- /ʃiə/
- /ʃeɾ/ Scotland
- /ʃeɹ/ Scotland
- /ʃɜː(ɹ)/
- /ʃæ(ɾ)/ South Asia
- /ʃeɾ/ South Asia
Sounds like shear (cheer–chair merger), sheer (cheer–chair merger) · Rhymes with -ɛə(ɹ)
Where it comes from
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *(s)koréh₂
Proto-Germanic *skarō
Proto-West Germanic *skaru
Old English sċearu
Middle English schare
English share
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.
noun shares
- A portion of something, especially a portion given or allotted to someone. Each of the robbers took a share of the loot.
- 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. Upload media from the browser or directly to the file share.
- 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.
- 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.
verb shares · sharing · shared · share
- To give part of what one has to somebody else to use or consume.
- To have or use in common. to share a shelter with another
- 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?
- To tell to another. He shared his story with the press.
- To allow public or private sharing of resources in a network, or content on social media. to share a folder, a screen
share²
- /ʃɛə/ UK
- /ʃɛː/ British, Southern, Standard
- /ʃɛɚ/ US
- /ʃeː/ Australia
- /ʃeə/ New Zealand
- /ʃiə/
- /ʃeɾ/ Scotland
- /ʃeɹ/ Scotland
- /ʃɜː(ɹ)/
- /ʃæ(ɾ)/ South Asia
- /ʃeɾ/ South Asia
Sounds like shear (cheer–chair merger), sheer (cheer–chair merger) · Rhymes with -ɛə(ɹ)
Where it comes from
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.
noun shares
- 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.
verb shares · sharing · shared
- To cut; to shear; to cleave; to divide. The shar'd visage hangs on equal sides.
Share³
Where it comes from
* As an English surname, perhaps a variant of Shear.
* As a Serbo-Croatian surname, Americanized from Šare, Sare.
proper noun Shares
- A surname.
