different between share vs quantity

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.

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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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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

English

Etymology

From Middle English quantite, from Old French quantité, from Latin quantit?s (“quantity”), from quantus (“how much”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?kw?n.t?.ti/
• (General American) enPR: kw?n?(t)?t?, IPA^(key): /?kw?n(t)?ti/, [?k?w?n(?)??i], [?k?w?n(t?)?t?i]
  • Note: This is with a relaxed middle T, and is only used in colloquial contexts by many speakers.
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /?kw?nd?di/, /?kw?n???i/
• (obsolete) IPA^(key): /?kwæn.t?.ti/

Noun

quantity (countable and uncountable, plural quantities)

1. A fundamental, generic term used when referring to the measurement (count, amount) of a scalar, vector, number of items or to some other way of denominating the value of a collection or group of items.

2. An indefinite amount of something.

   Some soap making oils are best as base oils, used in a larger quantity in the soap, while other oils are best added in a small quantity.

3. A specific measured amount.

4. A considerable measure or amount.

5. (metrology) Property of a phenomenon, body, or substance, where the property has a magnitude that can be expressed as number and a reference.
6. (mathematics) Indicates that the entire preceding expression is henceforth considered a single object.
   • 2006, Jerome E. Kaufmann and Karen Schwitters, Elementary and Intermediate Algebra: A Combined Approach, p 89

     For problems 58-67, translate each word phrase into an algebraic expression. […] 65. x plus 9, the quantity squared

   • 2005, R. Mark Sirkin, Statistics For The Social Sciences, p137

     The second, ${\displaystyle (\sum x)^{2}}$, read "summation of x, quantity squared," tells us to first add up all the xs to get ${\displaystyle \sum x}$ and then square ${\displaystyle \sum x}$ to get ${\displaystyle (\sum x)^{2}}$.

   • 1985, Serge Lang, Math!: Encounters with High School Students, p54

     ANN. ${\displaystyle ra}$ quantity cubed.

     SERGE LANG. That's right, ${\displaystyle (ra)^{3}}$.

Usage notes

• In mathematics, used to unambiguously orate mathematical equations; it is extremely rare in print, since there is no need for it there.

Synonyms

• Qty

Derived terms

• unknown quantity

Related terms

Translations

See also

• measure
• unit

Further reading

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