share

Signification

Noun

1. A portion of something, especially a portion given or allotted to someone.
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.
4. The action of sharing something with other people via social media.
5. The sharebone or pubis.

Verb

1. To give part of what one has to somebody else to use or consume.
2. To have or use in common.
3. To divide and distribute.
4. To tell to another.
5. To allow public or private sharing of computer data or space in a network

Verb

To cut; to shear; to cleave; to divide.

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ʃɛə/

Étymologie

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.

Phrases

Both Saint Matthew's and Saint John's share the same Church of England vicar .

Saint Matthew et Saint John partagent le même vicaire de l'Église d'Angleterre.