Sekirov Dictionary

share

UK /ʃɛə/US /ʃɛɚ/

noun 6
verb 6
forms 5
phrases 6

noun6

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the part of something that one person gets when it is split among several people
- 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.
A financial instrument that shows that one owns a part of a company that provides the benefit of limited liability.
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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. — 2016
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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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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. — 1785
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The sharebone or pubis.
- 1606: translation by Philemon Holland of Suetonius, De vita Caesarum [Domitian 17] — [H]ee stabbed him beneth in the very share neere unto his privie parts. — 1606

verb6

To give part of what one has to somebody else to use or consume.
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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? — 1708
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To have or use in common.
- They share a language.
To allow public or private sharing of resources in a network, or content on social media.
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To tell to another.
- He shared his story with the press.
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(no longer used) To cut; to shear; to cleave; to divide.
- The shar'd visage hangs on equal sides. — 1697

forms

shared · sharing · shares · shareth · sharest

Phrases with share

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