share

plural shares

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

   Each of the robbers took a share of the loot.

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   The TV programme was cancelled because it only gained a 10% share of that night's viewing audience.

   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.

   2023 July 26, Paul Clifton, “A (safe and secure) Day at the Races...”, in RAIL, number 988, page 35

   Synonyms: slice

2. businessA financial instrument that shows that one owns a part of a company that provides the benefit of limited liability.
3. computingA configuration enabling a resource to be shared over a network.

   Upload media from the browser or directly to the file share.

4. social mediaThe 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, Brooke Warner, Green-Light Your Book

5. anatomyThe 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.

present singular third person shares · participle present sharing · participle past shared · past shared · first person past singular shared · archaic present second person singular sharest · past second person singular shared · archaic past second person singular sharedst · present singular third person shares · archaic present singular third person shareth · past singular third person shared · past plural shared · past subjunctive shared · participle present sharing · participle past shared

1. To give part of what one has to somebody else to use or consume.
2. To have or use in common.

   They share a language.

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   to share a shelter with another

   While Avarice and Rapine ſhare the Land.

   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 I, Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, →OCLC, page 24

   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.

   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

   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.

   1960 December, Voyageur, “The Mountain Railways of the Bernese Oberland”, in Trains Illustrated, page 752

3. 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 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

4. To tell to another.

   He shared his story with the press.

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   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.

   2013 May 10, Oliver Burkeman, “The tao of tech”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 27

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

   to share a folder, a screen

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   to share a video, a playlist

plural shares

1. agricultureThe 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, William Cowper, The Task, Book IV

present singular third person shares · participle present sharing · participle past shared · past shared

1. obsoletetransitiveTo cut; to shear; to cleave; to divide.

   The shar'd visage hangs on equal sides.

   1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC

plural Shares

1. A surname.