Etimology
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.
noun
share (plural shares)
A portion of something, especially a portion given or allotted to someone.
(finance) A financial instrument that shows that one owns a part of a company that provides the benefit of limited liability.
(computing) A configuration enabling a resource to be shared over a network.
(social media) The action of sharing something with other people via social media.
(anatomy) The sharebone or pubis.
Examples
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.
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.
Upload media from the browser or directly to the file share.
Social media is supervisual, and there's nothing more shareable than images, so this is a way to increase shares and likes and follows.
[…] [H]ee stabbed him beneth in the very share neere unto his privie parts. [Dom.17]
verb
share (third-person singular simple present shares, present participle sharing, simple past and past participle shared)
To give part of what one has to somebody else to use or consume.
To have or use in common.
To divide and distribute.
To tell to another.
(computing, Internet) To allow public or private sharing of computer data or space in a network
Examples
to share a shelter with another
They share a language.
While Avarice and Rapine ſhare the Land.
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.
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.
[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?
He shared his story with the press.
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.
Etimology
From Middle English share, schare, shaar, from Old English sċear, sċær (“ploughshare”), from Proto-Germanic *skaraz (“ploughshare”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut”). Cognate with Dutch schaar (“ploughshare”), dialectal German Schar (“ploughshare”), Danish (plov)skær (“ploughshare”). More at shear.
noun
share (plural shares)
(agriculture) The cutting blade of an agricultural machine like a plough, a cultivator or a seeding-machine.
Examples
The golden harvest, of a mellow brown, Upturn'd so lately by the fearful share.
verb
share (third-person singular simple present shares, present participle sharing, simple past and past participle shared)
(transitive, obsolete) To cut; to shear; to cleave; to divide.
Examples
The shar'd visage hangs on equal sides.