share

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A portion of something, especially a portion given or allotted to someone.

   • Each of the robbers took a share of the loot.
   • The TV programme was cancelled because it only gained a 10% share of that night's viewing audience.
2. 2

   A financial instrument that shows that one owns a part of a company that provides the…

   A financial instrument that shows that one owns a part of a company that provides the benefit of limited liability.

3. 3

   A configuration enabling a resource to be shared over a network.

   • Upload media from the browser or directly to the file share.
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   1. 4

      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.
   2. 5

      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.
   3. 6

      To give part of what one has to somebody else to use or consume.

   4. 7

      To have or use in common.

      • to share a shelter with another
      • They share a language.
      • While Avarice and Rapine ſhare the Land.
   5. 8

      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?
   6. 9

      To tell to another.

      • He shared his story with the press.
   7. 10

      To allow public or private sharing of resources in a network, or content on social media.

      • to share a folder, a screen
      • to share a video, a playlist
   8. 11

      The cutting blade of an agricultural machine like a plough, a cultivator or a…

      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.
   9. 12

      To cut

      To cut; to shear; to cleave; to divide.

      • The shar'd visage hangs on equal sides.
   10. 13

       A surname.

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