different between magnitude vs share

English

Etymology

From Latin magnit?d? (“greatness, size”), magnus +? -t?d?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mæ?n?tju?d/

Noun

magnitude (countable and uncountable, plural magnitudes)

1. (uncountable, countable) The absolute or relative size, extent or importance of something.
2. (countable) An order of magnitude.
3. (mathematics) A number, assigned to something, such that it may be compared to others numerically
4. (mathematics) Of a vector, the norm, most commonly, the two-norm.
5. (astronomy) A logarithmic scale of brightness defined so that a difference of 5 magnitudes is a factor of 100.
   1. (uncountable) The apparent brightness of a star, with lower magnitudes being brighter; apparent magnitude
   2. (countable) A ratio of intensity expressed as a logarithm.
6. (seismology) A measure of the energy released by an earthquake (e.g. on the Richter scale).

Derived terms

• order of magnitude
• absolute magnitude
• apparent magnitude

Translations

Anagrams

• gamnitude

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma.?i.tyd/

Noun

magnitude f (plural magnitudes)

1. magnitude

Derived terms

• magnitude absolue

Galician

Noun

magnitude f (plural magnitudes)

1. magnitude

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ud?i

Noun

magnitude f (plural magnitudes)

1. magnitude (size, extent or importance)
2. (mathematics) magnitude (value assigned to a variable)
3. (mathematics) magnitude (the norm of a vector)
4. (astronomy) magnitude (apparent brightness of a star)
5. (seismology) magnitude (energy of an earthquake)

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /????/
• Rhymes: -??(?)

Etymology 1

From Middle English schare, schere, from Old English scearu (“a cutting, shaving, a shearing, tonsure, part, division, share”), from Proto-Germanic *skar? (“a division, detachment”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)?ar-, *skar- (“to 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.

Noun

share (plural shares)

1. A portion of something, especially a portion given or allotted to someone.

3. (finance) A financial instrument that shows that one owns a part of a company that provides the benefit of limited liability.
4. (computing) A configuration enabling a resource to be shared over a network.

5. (social media) The action of sharing something with other people via social media.
6. (anatomy) The sharebone or pubis.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

share (third-person singular simple present shares, present participle sharing, simple past and past participle shared)

1. To give part of what one has to somebody else to use or consume.
2. To have or use in common.
   • 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.

3. To divide and distribute.
4. To tell to another.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English share, schare, shaar, from Old English scear, scær (“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)

1. (agriculture) The cutting blade of an agricultural machine like a plough, a cultivator or a seeding-machine.

Derived terms

• ploughshare
• plowshare
• sharebeam

Translations

Verb

share (third-person singular simple present shares, present participle sharing, simple past and past participle shared)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To cut; to shear; to cleave; to divide.

   • The shar'd visage hangs on equal sides.

Anagrams

• Asher, Rahes, Shear, asher, earsh, hares, harse, hears, heras, rheas, sehar, sehra, shear

Japanese

Romanization

share

1. R?maji transcription of ???
2. R?maji transcription of ???

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish is ferr (“it’s better”), from Proto-Celtic *werros, from Proto-Indo-European *wers- (“peak”). Akin to Latin verr?ca (“steep place, height”), Lithuanian viršùs (“top, head”) and Old Church Slavonic ????? (vr?x?, “top, peak”). Compare Irish fearr.

Adjective

share

1. comparative degree of mie

Middle English

Alternative forms

• sharre, shzar, sher

Etymology

From Old English scear (“plowshare”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ar/, /?a?r/

Noun

share (plural shares)

1. plowshare

Descendants

• English: share
• Yola: shor

References

• “sh??r(e, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English share.

Noun

share m (plural shares)

1. (television) share of the audience