Share vs Assignment - What's the difference?

Share is a related term of assignment.

In computing|lang=en terms the difference between share and assignment

is that share is (computing) a configuration enabling a resource to be shared over a network while assignment is (computing) an operation that assigns a value to a variable.

As nouns the difference between share and assignment

is that share is a portion of something, especially a portion given or allotted to someone or share can be (agriculture) the cutting blade of an agricultural machine like a plough, a cultivator or a seeding-machine while assignment is the act of assigning; the allocation of a job or a set of tasks.

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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assignment

English

(wikipedia assignment)

Noun

(en noun)

The act of assigning; the allocation of a job or a set of tasks.

This flow chart represents the assignment of tasks in our committee.

The categorization of something as belonging to a specific category.

We should not condone the assignment of asylum seekers to that of people smugglers.

An assigned task.

The assignment the department gave him proved to be quite challenging.

A position to which someone is assigned.

Unbeknownst to Mr Smith, his new assignment was in fact a demotion.

(education) A task given to students, such as homework or coursework.

Mrs Smith gave out our assignments , and said we had to finish them by Monday.

(legal) A transfer of something from one person to another, especially property, or a claim or right.

The assignment of the lease has not been finalised yet.

(legal) A document that effects this transfer.

Once you receive the assignment in the post, be sure to sign it and send it back as soon as possible.

(computing) An operation that assigns a value to a variable.