different between sharing vs harmony

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /????.??/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /????.???/
• Hyphenation: shar?ing
• Rhymes: -?????

Noun

sharing (plural sharings)

1. Something shared.
   • 1997, Roger Blench, Matthew Spriggs, Archaeology and Language I

     IE also has sharings with Nakh-Daghestanian, Semitic, and Sumerian. IE and Kartvelian, and no other languages, share numerals with Semitic.

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Verb

sharing

1. present participle of share

Anagrams

• Harings, garnish, rashing

English

Etymology

First attested in 1602. From Middle English armonye, from Old French harmonie/armonie, from Latin harmonia, from Ancient Greek ??????? (harmonía, “joint, union, agreement, concord of sounds”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?h??m?ni/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?h??m?ni/
• Homophone: hominy (god-guard merger and weak vowel merger)

Noun

harmony (countable and uncountable, plural harmonies)

1. Agreement or accord.
   • December 4 2010, Evan Thomas, "Why It’s Time to Worry", in Newsweekk

     America's social harmony has depended at least to some degree on economic growth. It is easier to get along when everyone, more or less, is getting ahead.

2. A pleasing combination of elements, or arrangement of sounds.
3. (music) The academic study of chords.
4. (music) Two or more notes played simultaneously to produce a chord.
5. (music) The relationship between two distinct musical pitches (musical pitches being frequencies of vibration which produce audible sound) played simultaneously.
6. A literary work which brings together or arranges systematically parallel passages of historians respecting the same events, and shows their agreement or consistency.

   a harmony of the Gospels

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Further reading

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