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Share

noun

1.

Assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group. Synonyms: part, percentage, portion.

2.

Any of the equal portions into which the capital stock of a corporation is divided and ownership of which is evidenced by a stock certificate.

3.

The allotment of some amount by dividing something. Synonyms: parcel, portion.

4.

The part played by a person in bringing about a result. Synonyms: contribution, part. "They all did their share of the work"

5.

A sharp steel wedge that cuts loose the top layer of soil. Synonyms: ploughshare, plowshare.

verb

(past & past part. shared; pres. part. sharing)

1.

Have in common. "The two countries share a long border"

2.

Use jointly or in common.

3.

Have, give, or receive a share of. Synonyms: partake, partake in.

4.

Give out as one's portion or share. Synonyms: apportion, deal, divvy up, portion out.

5.

Communicate.

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"Share" Quotes from Famous Books

... add that the poor old cat which we had brought home had always a liberal share of our good things; and so well was it looked after, especially by Peterkin, that it recovered much of its former strength, and seemed to improve in sight as well ...

— The Coral Island • R.M. Ballantyne

... British possession on the model of India or Ceylon, but rather in that of an enlarged cosmopolitanism, which, whilst discarding all the obstructive fetters of the cumbersome old international system, will tend to amalgamate all the inhabitants of the Nile Valley and enable them all alike to share in the government of their native ...

— Political and Literary essays, 1908-1913 • Evelyn Baring

... same cause in riper years. They are more disinterested and sincere. They come with the spring of life, root deep into the heart, and cling with irradicable tenacity through life. We find in mature life dear friends, friends who will share the all they have with you, who will for you hazard even life, and you love them—but not as you love the boys who were at school with you, who ran with you wild through the woods, when you hunted the squirrel and trapped the quail. When fortuitous time forces your separation, and long intervening ...

— The Memories of Fifty Years • William H. Sparks

... abundant crops; and since they completely enclose the polar area they are necessarily served first. The great emissaries for carrying off the surplus of their aqueous riches, would then appear to be superfluous constructions, nor is it likely that the share in those riches due to the canals and oases, intricately dividing up the wide, dry, continental plains, ...

— Is Mars Habitable? • Alfred Russel Wallace

... but there is just so much that I can stand—and you have passed the limit. There is hardly a man in this class who hasn't written at least one theme on the glory that is Sanford. As you know, I am a Sanford man myself, and I have my share of affection for the college, but you have reached an ecstasy of chauvinism that makes Chauvin's affection for Napoleon seem ...

— The Plastic Age • Percy Marks

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