sharing

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈʃɛə.ɹɪŋ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈʃɛɚ.ɪŋ/

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• Hyphenation: shar‧ing
• Rhymes: -ɛəɹɪŋ

Noun

sharing (plural sharings)

1. Something shared; a point in common.
   • 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.

2. The act by which something is shared.
   • 1983 February 5, Rhonda Copelon, quotee, “Roe v. Wade: The Challenge of the Next Decade”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 28, page 5:

     Roe v. Wade was preceded by all those moments that make a movement: tentative and explosive sharings in kitchens and CR groups; times of great courage and stillness, […]

Hyponyms

• behind-the-scenes data sharing
• CPU sharing
• data sharing
• file sharing
• power sharing

Derived terms

• call by sharing
• false sharing
• gain-sharing
• job-sharing
• needle sharing
• photo-sharing
• power-sharing
• powersharing
• profit sharing
• revenue sharing grant
• secret sharing
• sharing economy
• sharing is caring
• social sharing
• think-pair-sharing
• time-sharing

Translations

a common point

Arabic: إِقْتِسَام (ʔiqtisām), مُقَاسَمَة f (muqāsama) Bulgarian: подялба (bg) f (podjalba) Catalan: repartiment (ca) m French: partage (fr) m German: Aufteilung (de) f, Teilung (de) f Greek: μερισμός (el) m (merismós) Russian: раздел (ru) m (razdel), разделение (ru) m (razdelenije) Turkish: bölüşme (tr)

action of the verb to share

Catalan: compartició (ca) f French: répartition (fr) f Italian: condivisione (it) f Portuguese: compartilhamento (pt) m

Verb

sharing

1. present participle and gerund of share

Anagrams

• Harings, garnish, rashing