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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.
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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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duty

English

Etymology

From Middle English duete, from Middle English dewe) + Middle English -te, (borrowed from Old French -te from Latin -t?tem, accusative masculine singular of -t?s). Akin to due + -ty (Alternative form of -ity).

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?dju?ti/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /du?ti/
  • Rhymes: -u?ti
  • Homophone: doody (for some speakers)

Noun

duty (countable and uncountable, plural duties)

  1. That which one is morally or legally obligated to do.
    • 1805, 21 October, Horatio Nelson
      England expects that every man will do his duty.
    • Captain Edward Carlisle [] felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze, []; he could not tell what this prisoner might do. He cursed the fate which had assigned such a duty, cursed especially that fate which forced a gallant soldier to meet so superb a woman as this under handicap so hard.
  2. The state of being at work and responsible for or doing a particular task.
  3. A tax placed on imports or exports; a tariff.
    customs duty; excise duty
  4. (obsolete) One's due, something one is owed; a debt or fee.
    • 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Matthew XX:
      Take that which is thy duty, and goo thy waye.
  5. (obsolete) Respect; reverence; regard; act of respect; homage.
  6. The efficiency of an engine, especially a steam pumping engine, as measured by work done by a certain quantity of fuel; usually, the number of pounds of water lifted one foot by one bushel of coal (94 lbs. old standard), or by 1 cwt. (112 lbs., England, or 100 lbs., United States).

Usage notes

  • Adjectives often used with "duty": public, private, moral, legal, social, double, civic, contractual, political, judicial, etc.

Synonyms

  • (that which one is obligated to do): obligation

Antonyms

  • duty-free (taxes)
  • (that which one is obligated to do): right

Derived terms

Related terms

  • due

Translations

Further reading

  • duty in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
  • duty in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
  • duty at OneLook Dictionary Search

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [?dut?]

Participle

duty

  1. past passive participle of du?

Declension

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