share
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
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
form: sharing
form: shared
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form: no-table-tags
form: glossary
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form: sharest
form: shared
form: sharedst
form: shares
form: shareth
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form: -
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form: shared
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: glosses: To give part of what one has to somebody else to use or consume.
examples: text: to share a shelter with another
text: They share a language.
text: While Avarice and Rapine ſhare the Land.
ref: a. 1675, John Milton, On the Lord General Fairfax at the Siege of Colchester; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, […], volume II, Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, →OCLC, page 24:
text: 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.
ref: 1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter I, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], [1933], →OCLC, page 0056:
text: The Kleine Scheidegg is quite a colony, with its railway station, shared by the Wengernalp and Jungfrau Railways, its commodious station buffet and two large hotels.
ref: 1960 December, Voyageur, “The Mountain Railways of the Bernese Oberland”, in Trains Illustrated, page 752:
glosses: To have or use in common.
examples: text: [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?
ref: 1708 December 15 (Gregorian calendar; date written), [Jonathan Swift], A Letter from a Member of the House of Commons in Ireland to a Member of the House of Commons in England, Concerning the Sacramental Test, London: […] John Morphew […], published 1709, →OCLC, page 21:
glosses: To divide and distribute.
examples: text: He shared his story with the press.
text: The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about […] 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.
ref: 2013 May 10, Oliver Burkeman, “The tao of tech”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 27:
glosses: To tell to another.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To allow public or private sharing of computer data or space in a network
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from share (verb)
word: a problem shared is a problem halved
sense: Terms derived from share (verb)
word: a sorrow shared is a sorrow halved
sense: Terms derived from share (verb)
word: a trouble shared is a trouble halved
sense: Terms derived from share (verb)
word: beshare
sense: Terms derived from share (verb)
word: overshare
sense: Terms derived from share (verb)
word: pre-shared
sense: Terms derived from share (verb)
word: pre-shared key
sense: Terms derived from share (verb)
word: sharecropping
sense: Terms derived from share (verb)
word: shared-nothing
sense: Terms derived from share (verb)
word: shared pointer
sense: Terms derived from share (verb)
word: shared service
sense: Terms derived from share (verb)
word: shared universe
sense: Terms derived from share (verb)
word: share forward accumulator
sense: Terms derived from share (verb)
word: share in
sense: Terms derived from share (verb)
word: share out
sense: Terms derived from share (verb)
word: share up
sense: Terms derived from share (verb)
word: shareware
sense: Terms derived from share (verb)
word: sharing economy
sense: Terms derived from share (verb)
word: show and share
sense: Terms derived from share (verb)
word: undershare