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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)
- A portion of something, especially a portion given or allotted to someone.
- (finance) A financial instrument that shows that one owns a part of a company that provides the benefit of limited liability.
- (computing) A configuration enabling a resource to be shared over a network.
- (social media) The action of sharing something with other people via social media.
- (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)
- To give part of what one has to somebody else to use or consume.
- 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.
- To divide and distribute.
- 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)
- (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)
- (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
- R?maji transcription of ???
- 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
- 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)
- 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)
- (television) share of the audience
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parcel
English
Etymology
From Middle English parcel, from Old French parcelle (“a small piece or part, a parcel, a particle”), from Vulgar Latin *particella, diminutive of Latin particula (“particle”), diminutive of pars (“part, piece”). Doublet of particle.
Pronunciation
- enPR: pär?-s?l, IPA(key): /?p??s?l/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): [?p?a?.s??]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): [?p???.s??]
- (General American) IPA(key): [?p???.s??]
- Rhymes: -??(r)s?l
- Hyphenation: par?cel
Noun
parcel (plural parcels)
- A package wrapped for shipment.
- Synonym: package
- At twilight in the summer […] the mice come out. They […] eat the luncheon crumbs. Mr. Checkly, for instance, always brought his dinner in a paper parcel in his coat-tail pocket, and ate it when so disposed, sprinkling crumbs lavishly […] on the floor.
- An individual consignment of cargo for shipment, regardless of size and form.
- A division of land bought and sold as a unit.
- Synonym: plot
- (obsolete) A group of birds.
- An indiscriminate or indefinite number, measure, or quantity; a collection; a group.
- c. 1602, William Shakespeare, All’s Well That Ends Well, Act II, Scene 3,[2]
- […] this youthful parcel
- Of noble bachelors stand at my bestowing,
- 1847, Herman Melville, Omoo, Part 2, Chapter 79,[3]
- […] instead of sitting (as she ought to have done) by her good father and mother, she must needs run up into the gallery, and sit with a parcel of giddy creatures of her own age […]
- c. 1602, William Shakespeare, All’s Well That Ends Well, Act II, Scene 3,[2]
- A small amount of food that has been wrapped up, for example a pastry.
- A portion of anything taken separately; a fragment of a whole; a part.
- 1731, John Arbuthnot, An essay concerning the nature of aliments, London: J. Tonson, Chapter 4, p. 85,[4]
- The same Experiments succeed on two Parcels of the White of an Egg […]
- 1881, John Addington Symonds, The Renaissance in Italy, Volume 5, Part I, New York: Henry Holt, Chapter 1, p. 2,[5]
- The parcels of the nation adopted different forms of self-government, sought divers foreign alliances.
- 1731, John Arbuthnot, An essay concerning the nature of aliments, London: J. Tonson, Chapter 4, p. 85,[4]
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
See also
- lot
- allotment
Verb
parcel (third-person singular simple present parcels, present participle parceling or parcelling, simple past and past participle parceled or parcelled)
- To wrap something up into the form of a package.
- To wrap a strip around the end of a rope.
- Worm and parcel with the lay; turn and serve the other way.
- To divide and distribute by parts or portions; often with out or into.
- 1592, William Shakespeare, Richard III, Act II, Scene 2,[6]
- Their woes are parcell’d, mine are general.
- 1667, John Dryden, The Indian Emperour, London: H. Herringman, Act I, Scene 2, p. 12,[7]
- Those ghostly Kings would parcel out my pow’r,
- And all the fatness of my Land devour;
- 1864, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “Aylmer’s Field” in Enoch Arden, etc., London: Edward Moxon, pp. 94-95,[8]
- Then the great Hall was wholly broken down,
- And the broad woodland parcell’d into farms;
- 1592, William Shakespeare, Richard III, Act II, Scene 2,[6]
- To add a parcel or item to; to itemize.
- c. 1606, William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, Act V, Scene 2,[9]
- […] that mine own servant should
- Parcel the sum of my disgraces by
- Addition of his envy!
- c. 1606, William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, Act V, Scene 2,[9]
Translations
Adverb
parcel (not comparable)
- (obsolete) Part or half; in part; partially.
- c. 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 2, Act II, Scene 1,[10]
- Thou didst swear to me upon a parcel-gilt goblet […]
- 1826, Walter Scott, Woodstock, or The Cavalier, Chapter 4,[11]
- […] as the worthy dame was parcel blind and more than parcel deaf, knowledge was excluded by two principal entrances […]
- 1864, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “Aylmer’s Field” in Enoch Arden, etc., London: Edward Moxon, p. 59,[12]
- here was one [a hut] that, summer-blanch’d,
- Was parcel-bearded with the traveller’s-joy
- In Autumn, parcel ivy-clad;
- c. 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 2, Act II, Scene 1,[10]
Further reading
- parcel in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- parcel in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Anagrams
- Placer, carpel, craple, placer
Danish
Etymology
Borrowed from French parcelle (“parcel”), from Latin particula (“particle”), diminutive of pars (“part”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [p???s?l?]
Noun
parcel c (singular definite parcellen, plural indefinite parceller)
- parcel, lot (subdivided piece of land registred independently in official records)
- (informal) detached house
- Synonym: parcelhus
Inflection
Portuguese
Noun
parcel m (plural parcéis)
- a shoal, a sandbank
- Synonyms: vau, vado, baixo, baixio, esparcel, restinga, sirte
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