share
NOUN · English
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The corpus records 5 senses of share. Each sense below has its own Add to list, so you choose the one you mean.
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Experimental coverage — measured below Partial on the number of recorded words, definitions, translations, word forms and pronunciation. Treat entries as evidence to check; meanings may be incomplete.
English is Experimental in Words. Support is measured, not declared: a language reaches Partial only when every measure meets its threshold, and a measure that has not been taken does not count. The development corpus holds 60 source-backed words in English. What is shown may be incomplete, and pronunciation audio, generated forms and generated examples are not offered.
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Definition: A portion of something, especially a portion given or allotted to someone. From a source of medium confidence.
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- Each of the robbers took a share of the loot. Usage example — not an attested quotation.
- The TV programme was cancelled because it only gained a 10% share of that night's viewing audience. Usage example — not an attested quotation.
- 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 internationals at Twickenham. 2023 July 26, Paul Clifton, “A (safe and secure) Day at the Races...”, in RAIL, number 988, page 35:
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Definition: A financial instrument that shows that one owns a part of a company that provides the benefit of limited liability. From a source of medium confidence.
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Definition: A configuration enabling a resource to be shared over a network. From a source of medium confidence.
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- Upload media from the browser or directly to the file share. Usage example — not an attested quotation.
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Definition: The action of sharing something with other people via social media. From a source of medium confidence.
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- 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:
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Definition: The sharebone or pubis. From a source of medium confidence.
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- 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. Usage example — not an attested quotation.
No paradigm has been compiled for this word yet.
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. From a source of medium confidence.
No related word is recorded for this word.