Dictionary Definition
share
Noun
1 any of the equal portions into which the
capital stock of a corporation is divided and ownership of which is
evidenced by a stock certificate; "he bought 100 shares of IBM at
the market price"
2 assets belonging to or due to or contributed by
an individual person or group; "he wanted his share in cash" [syn:
portion, part, percentage]
3 the result of parcelling out or sharing; "death
gets more than its share of attention from theologicans" [syn:
parcel, portion]
4 any one of a number of individual efforts in a
common endeavor; "I am proud of my contribution to the team's
success"; "they all did their share of the work" [syn: contribution, part]
5 a sharp steel wedge that cuts loose the top
layer of soil [syn: plowshare, ploughshare]
Verb
1 have in common; "Our children share a love of
music"; "The two countries share a long border"
2 use jointly or in common
3 have, give, or receive a share of; "We shared
the cake" [syn: partake,
partake
in]
5 communicate; "I'd like to share this idea with
you"
User Contributed Dictionary
Etymology 1
scearu.Noun
Translations
part of something
- Arabic:
- Chinese: 部分 (bùfèn)
- Czech: podíl , poměrná část
- Dutch: deel, aandeel
- Finnish: osuus, osa
- French: part
- German: Anteil, Teil
- Hebrew: חלק (khalek)
- Hungarian: részesedés
- Italian: parte
- Japanese: 分担 (ぶんたん, buntan)
- Korean: 목 (mok)
- Polish: część
- Portuguese: parte
- Russian: доля
- Spanish: participación
- Swedish: andel, del
- Urdu: (hissah)
financial instrument
Verb
- To give part of what one has to somebody else to use or consume.
- To have in common.
- They share a language.
- To divide and distribute
Derived terms
Translations
to give
* Spanish: dar
to have in common
- Czech: sdílet
- Finnish: olla yhteinen
- Japanese: 共有する, 共用する
- Russian: разделять , разделить
to divide and distribute
- Japanese: 分担する
- ttbc Chinese: 分享 (fēn xiǎng),分担 (fēn dān)
- ttbc Dutch: delen
- ttbc French: partager
- ttbc German: teilen
- trreq Hebrew
- Jèrriais: chârer
- ttbc Old English: dǣlan (1)
- ttbc Polish: dzielić się (1)
- ttbc Portuguese: compartilhar
- ttbc Spanish: compartir
Etymology 2
scear, scær.Noun
- The cutting blade of an agricultural machine like a plough, a cultivator or a seeding-machine.
Derived terms
Translations
cutting blade of an agricultural machine
- Finnish: vannas
- French: soc
- German: Pflugeisen , Pflugschar
- Hungarian: ekevas
- Japanese: 刃先
- Korean: 가래 (garae), 보습 (boseup) i for plough
- Russian: лемех, сошник
- Slovene: lemež
- Spanish: reja
Manx
Adjective
Extensive Definition
Share may refer to:
- Sharing (or "To Share"); to make joint use of resources (such as food or money), or to "give something away"
- Share (finance), a stock or other security such as a mutual fund
- Share, the percentage of television sets in use tuned to a specific program—see Nielsen Ratings
- SHARE (charity), the acronym of a major Cork-based charity
- Share Foundation, a not-for-profit organization in Newfoundland
- SHARE (computing), one of the oldest computer user groups
- Network share, a file storage area that is available over a computer network
- Share (P2P), a Japanese P2P computer program. The successor to Winny
- Share (newspaper), a Caribbean and Black Canadian community newspaper based in Toronto, Canada
- SHARE Foundation (El Salvador), an El Salvador justice organization
- Share International, a new religious movement founded by the British painter Benjamin Creme
- Southern Hemisphere Auroral Radar Experiment, tracking space weather from Antarctica
- Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe, is studying health, socio-economic status and social and family networks of Europeans 50 or over
- Plowshare, the cutting blade of a plow (plough)
- Secular Humanist Aid and Relief Effort: a charity arm of the Council for Secular Humanism
share in Arabic: بورصة
share in Belarusian: Акцыя
share in German: Share
share in Spanish: Share (desambiguación)
share in French: Bourse
share in Italian: Share
share in Hebrew: בורסה
share in Japanese: Share
share in Polish: Papier wartościowy
share in Romanian: Bursă (dezambiguizare)
share in Simple English: Share
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
adjunct, allocate, allocation, allot, allotment, allowance, apportion, apportionment, appropriate, appropriation, assign, be affected, be in tune,
be inspired, be involved, be moved, be partners in, big end, bigger
half, bit, bite, block, board lot, broadcast, budget, care about, carve, carve up, catch the flame,
catch the infection, change color, chunk, claim, color with emotion,
commission, communicate, component, contingent, convey, cooperate, cross section,
cut, cut up, deal, deal out, destiny, detachment, detail, dig, dispensation, dispense, disseminate, divide, divide into shares,
divide up, divide with, dividend, division, divvy, divvy up, divvy up with,
dole, dole out, due, dummy share, echo, empathize with, end, equal share, equity, even lot, experience, fate, fraction, fractional lot, full
lot, get across, get over, give, give out, give word, go even
stephen, go fifty-fifty, go halvers, go halves, go shares, half, halve, halver, hand on, helping, holding, holdings, identify with,
impart, installment, interest, item, leave word, lot, make known, measure, meed, mess, mete out, modicum, moiety, odd lot, parcel, part, partake, participate, particular, partition, pass, pass along, pass on, pay out,
percentage, piece, portion, preference share,
proportion, prorate, quadrant, quantum, quarter, quota, quotient, quotum, rake-off, random sample,
ration, react, relate to emotionally,
remainder, render, report, respond, round lot, sample, sampling, section, sector, segment, send, send word, serving, share in, share out,
share with, shift,
signal, slice, slice the pie, slice up,
small share, split, split
the difference, split up, stake, stock, stockholding, stockholdings, subdivision, subgroup, subspecies, sympathize with,
tell, transfer, transmit