share
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɛə/
ipa: /ʃɛɚ/
ipa: /ʃeː/
note: without the cheer–chair merger
ipa: /ʃeə/
note: New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /ʃiə/
ipa: /ʃeɹ/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /ʃɜː(ɹ)/
note: Indic
ipa: /ʃæ(ɾ)/
note: non-rhotic, also
ipa: /ʃeɾ/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
homophone: shear (cheer–chair merger)
homophone: sheer (cheer–chair merger)
Forms: form: shares
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.
Senses: examples: text: Each of the robbers took a share of the loot.
text: The TV programme was cancelled because it only gained a 10% share of that night's viewing audience.
text: 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.
ref: 2023 July 26, Paul Clifton, “A (safe and secure) Day at the Races...”, in RAIL, number 988, page 35:
glosses: A portion of something, especially a portion given or allotted to someone.
topics: business
finance
glosses: A financial instrument that shows that one owns a part of a company that provides the benefit of limited liability.
examples: text: Upload media from the browser or directly to the file share.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A configuration enabling a resource to be shared over a network.
examples: text: Social media is supervisual, and there's nothing more shareable than images, so this is a way to increase shares and likes and follows.
ref: 2016, Brooke Warner, Green-Light Your Book:
qualifier: social media
glosses: The action of sharing something with other people via social media.
examples: 1606: translation by [[w:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philemon_Holland|Philemon Holland]] of [[w:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suetonius|Suetonius]], De vita Cæsarum [Domitian 17] — [H]ee stabbed him beneth in the very share neere unto his privie parts.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The sharebone or pubis.
Derived terms: angel's share
angels' share
bottle share
capital share
down-share
elective share
equity share
fair share
forced share
golden share
labor share
labour share
leonine share
lion's share
market share
mind share
ordinary share
pair and share
phantom share
preference share
profit share
rideshare
screen share
share a bed
share and share alike
share capital
share dilution
share economy
share herd
share-herd
share-herder
share herder
share-herding
share herding
shareholder
share house
share-in-savings
share milk
share-milk
share milker
share-milker
share milking
share-milking
share of the pie
share-out
shareout
share split
share taxi
statutory share
think-pair-share
time-share
usage share
wage share
widow's share