“Shares” is a form of
share
UK /ʃɛə/ · US /ʃɛɚ/ noun, verb, proper noun
Forms shares sharing shared sharest sharedst shareth
- noun A portion of something, especially a portion given or allotted to someone. “Each of the robbers took a share of the loot.”
- noun (finance) A financial instrument that shows that one owns a part of a company that provides the benefit of limited liability.
- noun (computing) A configuration enabling a resource to be shared over a network. “Upload media from the browser or directly to the file share.”
- noun (social media) The action of sharing something with other people via social media.
- noun (anatomy) The sharebone or pubis.
- verb To give part of what one has to somebody else to use or consume.
- verb To have or use in common. “to share a shelter with another”
- verb To divide and distribute.
- verb To tell to another. “He shared his story with the press.”
- verb (networking) To allow public or private sharing of resources in a network, or content on social media. “to share a folder, a screen”
- noun (agriculture) The cutting blade of an agricultural machine like a plough, a cultivator or a seeding-machine.
- verb (transitive, obsolete) To cut; to shear; to cleave; to divide.
- proper noun A surname.
Synonyms
portion part percentage parcel contribution plowshare ploughshare partake partake in divvy up portion out apportion deal
Etymology
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.
From Middle English schar, schare, 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.
* As an English surname, perhaps a variant of Shear.
* As a Serbo-Croatian surname, Americanized from Šare, Sare.
Webster’s 1913
- noun The part (usually an iron or steel plate) of a plow which cuts the ground at the bottom of a furrow; a plowshare.
- noun The part which opens the ground for the reception of the seed, in a machine for sowing seed. Knight.
- noun A certain quantity; a portion; a part; a division; as, a small share of prudence.
- noun Especially, the part allotted or belonging to one, of any property or interest owned by a number; a portion among others; an apportioned lot; an allotment; a dividend. "My share of fame." Dryden.
Etymology [OE. schar, AS. scear; akin to OHG. scaro, G. schar, pflugshar, and E. shear, v. See Shear.]
Etymology [OE. share, AS. scearu, scaru, fr. sceran to shear, cut. See Shear, v.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “share”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details