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scare

English

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

From Middle English sker, skere (terror, fright), from the verb Middle English skerren (to frighten) (see below).

Noun

scare (plural scares)

  1. A minor fright.
  2. A cause of slight terror; something that inspires fear or dread.
    a food-poisoning scare
  3. A device or object used to frighten.

Synonyms

  • fright

Related terms

  • scary

Translations

See also

  • scarecrow

Etymology 2

From Middle English scaren, skaren, scarren, skeren, skerren, from Old Norse skirra (to frighten; to shrink away from, shun; to prevent, avert), from Proto-Germanic *skirzijan? (to shoo, scare off), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (to swing, jump, move). Related to Old Norse skjarr (timid, shy, afraid of). Cognate with Scots skar (wild, timid, shy), dialectal Norwegian Nynorsk skjerra, dialectal Swedish skjarra and possibly Old Armenian ??? (c?i?, wild ass).

Verb

scare (third-person singular simple present scares, present participle scaring, simple past and past participle scared)

  1. To frighten, terrify, startle, especially in a minor way.
    • 1995, The Langoliers
      (Laurel Stevenson) Would you please be quiet? You're scaring the little girl.
      (Craig Toomey) Scaring the little girl?! Scaring the little girl?! Lady!

Synonyms

  • frighten
  • terrify
  • See also Thesaurus:frighten

Translations

Derived terms

Etymology 3

Adjective

scare (comparative more scare, superlative most scare)

  1. lean; scanty

Anagrams

  • CERAs, Cares, Ceras, Cesar, Crase, Creas, Races, SERCA, acers, acres, cares, carse, caser, ceras, crase, e-cars, races, sacre, serac, sérac

French

Etymology

From Latin scarus (also genus name Scarus), from Ancient Greek ?????? (skáros).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ska?/

Noun

scare m (plural scares)

  1. parrotfish

Further reading

  • “scare” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

  • âcres, caser, César, crase, créas, races, sacre, sacré

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share

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.
  2. (finance) A financial instrument that shows that one owns a part of a company that provides the benefit of limited liability.
  3. (computing) A configuration enabling a resource to be shared over a network.
  4. (social media) The action of sharing something with other people via social media.
  5. (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

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