Share vs Security - What's the difference?

In finance terms the difference between share and security

is that share is a financial instrument that shows that one owns a part of a company that provides the benefit of limited liability while security is property etc. temporarily relinquished to guarantee repayment of a loan.

In obsolete terms the difference between share and security

is that share is to cut; to shear; to cleave; to divide while security is carelessness; negligence.

As nouns the difference between share and security

is that share is a portion of something, especially a portion given or allotted to someone while security is the condition of not being threatened, especially physically, psychologically, emotionally, or financially.

As a verb share

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

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) schare, schere, from (etyl) . Compare (l), (l).

Noun

(en noun)

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

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

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

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

The sharebone or pubis.

(Holland)

Derived terms

* lion's share * share and share alike

Verb

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

To have or use in common.

*(John Milton) (1608-1674)

*:while avarice and rapine share the land

*: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.

To divide and distribute.

*(Jonathan Swift) (1667–1745)

*:Suppose I share my fortune equally between my children and a stranger.

To tell to another.

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(lb) To cut; to shear; to cleave; to divide.

*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)

*:The shared visage hangs on equal sides.

Derived terms

* sharecropping * shareware * sharing economy

Etymology 2

From (etyl) share, schare, shaar, from (etyl) scear, . More at (l).

Noun

(en noun)

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

Derived terms

* ploughshare * plowshare

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security

English

(wikipedia security)

Alternative forms

* secuerity (mostly obsolete)

Noun

(uncountable) The condition of not being threatened, especially physically, psychologically, emotionally, or financially.

* Shakespeare

Give up yourself merely to chance and hazard, / From firm security .

* Jonathan Swift

Some alleged that we should have no security for our trade.

(countable) Something that secures.

An organization or department responsible for providing security by enforcing laws, rules, and regulations as well as maintaining order.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2012-12-14, author=Simon Jenkins, authorlink=Simon Jenkins

, volume=188, issue=2, page=23, date=2012-12-21, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= We mustn't overreact to North Korea boys' toys , passage=The threat of terrorism to the British lies in the overreaction to it of British governments. Each one in turn clicks up the ratchet of surveillance, intrusion and security . Each one diminishes liberty.}}

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=52, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= The new masters and commanders , passage=From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. Those entering it are greeted by wire fences, walls dating back to colonial times and security posts. For mariners leaving the port after lonely nights on the high seas, the delights of the B52 Night Club and Stallion Pub lie a stumble away.}}

(legal) Something that secures the fulfillment of an obligation or law.

(legal) Freedom from apprehension.

(finance) Proof of ownership of stocks, bonds or other investment instruments.

(finance) Property etc. temporarily relinquished to guarantee repayment of a loan.

A guarantee.

* Macaulay

Those who lent him money lent it on no security but his bare word.

(obsolete) Carelessness; negligence.

* Shakespeare

He means, my lord, that we are too remiss, / Whilst Bolingbroke, through our security , / Grows strong and great in substance and in power.

Synonyms

* (condition of not being threatened) safety * (something that secures) protection * (something that secures the fulfillment of an obligation) guarantee, surety * See also

Antonyms

* insecurity (condition of being threatened )

Derived terms

* asset-backed security * computer security * information security * security blanket * Security Council * security by design * security hole * security procedure * security theater * security through obscurity * social security