Sharing

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Share \Share\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Shared}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Sharing}.]
     1. To part among two or more; to distribute in portions; to
        divide.
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              Suppose I share my fortune equally between my
              children and a stranger.              --Swift.
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     2. To partake of, use, or experience, with others; to have a
        portion of; to take and possess in common; as, to share a
        shelter with another.
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              While avarice and rapine share the land. --Milton.
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     3. To cut; to shear; to cleave; to divide. [Obs.]
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              The shared visage hangs on equal sides. --Dryden.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  sharing
       adj 1: sharing equally with another or others
       2: unselfishly willing to share with others; "a warm and
          sharing friend"
       n 1: having in common; "the sharing of electrons creates
            molecules"
       2: using or enjoying something jointly with others
       3: sharing thoughts and feelings [syn: {communion}]
       4: a distribution in shares [syn: {share-out}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  128 Moby Thesaurus words for "sharing":
     accessory, accord, accordance, affiliation, affinity, agape,
     agreement, amity, announcement, apportionment, association,
     bonds of harmony, brotherly love, budgeting, caring, caritas,
     cement of friendship, charity, chord, cochairmanship, communion,
     community, community of interests, companionship, company,
     compatibility, complicity, concern, concord, concordance,
     condominium, congeniality, consociation, contribution, conveyance,
     cooperation, copartnership, copartnery, correspondence, cotenancy,
     cutting, cutting the pie, disclosure, dividing, division, divvy,
     echo, empathy, engaged, engagement, esprit, esprit de corps,
     feeling of identity, fellow feeling, fellowship, fraternity,
     fraternization, frictionlessness, giving, good vibes,
     good vibrations, happy family, harmony, having a part,
     identification, identity, impartation, imparting, impartment,
     implicated, involved, involvement, joint chairmanship,
     joint control, joint ownership, joint tenancy, kinship,
     like-mindedness, love, membership, mutuality, notification,
     oneness, parceling, partaking, participant, participating,
     participation, participative, participatory, partition,
     partitioning, partnership, pathos, peace, portioning, publication,
     rapport, rapprochement, rationing, reciprocity, relating,
     repartition, response, responsiveness, sharing out, slicing,
     society, solidarity, splitting, suffrage, sympathetic chord,
     sympathetic response, sympathy, symphony, team spirit, telling,
     transfer, transference, transmission, transmittal, understanding,
     union, unison, unity, vibes, vibrations, voting