share

Meanings

Noun

• A portion of something, especially a portion given or allotted to someone.
• A financial instrument that shows that one owns a part of a company that provides the benefit of limited liability.
• A configuration enabling a resource to be shared over a network.
• The action of sharing something with other people via social media.
• The sharebone or pubis.
• The cutting blade of an agricultural machine like a plough, a cultivator or a seeding-machine.

Verb

• 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.
• To allow public or private sharing of computer data or space in a network
• To cut; to shear; to cleave; to divide.

Origin

• From Middle English schare, schere, from Old English scearu ("a cutting, shaving, a shearing, tonsure, part, division, share"), from Proto-Germanic *skarō ("a division, detachment"), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱar-, *skar-. Cognate with Saterland Frisian skar, sker, Dutch schare ("share in property"), German Schar ("band, troop, party, company"), Icelandic skor ("department"). Compare shard, shear.
• From Middle English share, schare, shaar, from Old English scear, scær, from Proto-Germanic *skaraz ("ploughshare"), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- ("to cut"). Cognate with Dutch schaar ("ploughshare"), dialectal German Schar ("ploughshare"), Danish plovskær ("ploughshare"). More at shear.