share
Forms
- Plural
- shares
- present (v1)
- share
- past (v2)
- shared
- past participle (v3)
- shared
- present participle
- sharing
- 3rd person singular
- shares
Definitions
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.A financial instrument that shows that one owns a part of a company that provides the benefit of limited liability.
3.A configuration enabling a resource to be shared over a network.
- Upload media from the browser or directly to the file share.
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.
1.To give part of what one has to somebody else to use or consume.
2.To have or use in common.
- 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.
3.To divide and distribute.
4.To tell to another.
- He shared his story with the press.
Frequency
Overall
Common· #570
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Common
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
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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”).