share

Each of the robbers took a share of the loot.

The TV programme was cancelled because it only gained a 10% share of that night's viewing audience.

SWR has more than its fair share of major national events. As well as the [Queen's] funeral and the coronation in the past 12 months, annual events include racing at Ascot, grand slam tennis at Wimbledon, and rugby internationals at Twickenham.

2023 July 26, Paul Clifton, “A (safe and secure) Day at the Races...”, in RAIL, number 988, page 35:

A portion of something, especially a portion given or allotted to someone.

financial instrument
financial instrument

(finance) A financial instrument that shows that one owns a part of a company that provides the benefit of limited liability.

Upload media from the browser or directly to the file share.

(computing) A configuration enabling a resource to be shared over a network.

Social media is supervisual, and there's nothing more shareable than images, so this is a way to increase shares and likes and follows.

2016, Brooke Warner, Green-Light Your Book:

(social media) The action of sharing something with other people via social media.

[…] [H]ee stabbed him beneth in the very share neere unto his privie parts. [Dom.17]

1606, Suetonius, translated by Philemon Holland, De Vita Cæsarum:

→ Thai: แชร์ (chɛɛ)

Freigabe

computing: configuration enabling sharing of resources

From Middle English schare, schere, from Old English sċearu (“a cutting, shaving, a shearing, tonsure, part, division, share”), from Proto-West Germanic *skaru, from Proto-Germanic *skarō (“a division, detachment”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut, 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. Doublet of eschel.


share

To give part of what one has to somebody else to use or consume.

to share a shelter with another

They share a language.

While Avarice and Rapine ſhare the Land.

a. 1675, John Milton, On the Lord General Fairfax at the Siege of Colchester; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, […], volume II, Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, →OCLC, page 24:

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.

1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter I, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], [1933], →OCLC, page 0056:

The Kleine Scheidegg is quite a colony, with its railway station, shared by the Wengernalp and Jungfrau Railways, its commodious station buffet and two large hotels.

1960 December, Voyageur, “The Mountain Railways of the Bernese Oberland”, in Trains Illustrated, page 752:

[S]uppose I ſhare my Fortune equally between my own Children, and a Stranger whom I take into my Protection; will that be a Method to unite them?

1708 December 15 (Gregorian calendar; date written), [Jonathan Swift], A Letter from a Member of the House of Commons in Ireland to a Member of the House of Commons in England, Concerning the Sacramental Test, London: […] John Morphew […], published 1709, →OCLC, page 21:

He shared his story with the press.

The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about […] offering services that let you[…]“share the things you love with the world” and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention.

2013 May 10, Oliver Burkeman, “The tao of tech”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 27:

(computing, Internet) To allow public or private sharing of computer data or space in a network

en-verb

share (third-person singular simple present shares, present participle sharing, simple past and past participle shared)

shares (present singular third-person)
sharing (participle present)
shared (participle past)
shared (past)

teilen

(computing, Internet) to allow public or private sharing of computer data or space in a network


share

The golden harvest, of a mellow brown,
 Upturn'd so lately by the fearful share.

1785, William Cowper, The Task, Book IV:

(agriculture) The cutting blade of an agricultural machine like a plough, a cultivator or a seeding-machine.

From Middle English share, schare, shaar, from Old English sċear, sċær (“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.


share

The shar'd visage hangs on equal sides.

1697, Virgil, translated by John Dryden, The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:

(transitive, obsolete) To cut; to shear; to cleave; to divide.