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As nouns the difference between share and divine

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 divine is one skilled in divinity; a theologian.

As verbs the difference between share and divine

is that share is to give part of what one has to somebody else to use or consume while divine is to foretell (something), especially by the use of divination.

As an adjective divine is

of or pertaining to a god.

share

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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    divine

    English

    (wikipedia divine)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) divin, from (etyl) .

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • of or pertaining to a god
  • eternal, holy, or otherwise godlike.
  • of superhuman or surpassing excellence
  • beautiful, heavenly
  • (obsolete) foreboding; prescient
  • * Milton
  • Yet oft his heart, divine of something ill, / Misgave him.
  • Relating to divinity or theology.
  • * South
  • church history and other divine learning
    Synonyms
    * (of or pertaining to a god) deific, godlike, godly * (sense) hallowed, holy, sacred * (of superhuman or surpassing excellence) supreme, ultimate * (sense) beautiful, delightful, exquisite, heavenly, lovely, magnificent, marvellous/marvelous, splendid, wonderful
    Antonyms
    * (of or pertaining to a god) undivine, ungodly * (sense) godless, secular, ungodly * (of superhuman or surpassing excellence) humdrum, mediocre, ordinary * (sense) horrible, horrid, nasty, unpleasant
    Derived terms
    * all-divine * argument from divine hiddenness * Book of Divine Worship * * * countenance divine * * divine afflatus * * divine command theory * divine countenance * divine fallacy * divine grace * divine guidance * divine healing * divine inspiration * divine intervention * divine judgement, divine judgment * divine kings * divine kingship * divine lady * divine language * divine law * * Divine Liturgy * divinely * Divine Mercy Sunday * divine messenger * Divine Mind * Divine Mother * divine move * Divine Mystery * divineness * Divine Office, divine office * divine polity * The Divine Praises * divine proportion * Divine Providence * divine ratio * divine retribution * divine revelation * divine right * divine rule * divine section * divine service * divine simplicity * divine spark * divinesse * * divine will healing * * Feast of the Divine Mercy * * indivine * Mother Divine * Revelation of Saint John the Divine * semi-divine, semidivine * * subdivine * * undivine * undivinelike

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One skilled in divinity; a theologian.
  • * Denham
  • Poets were the first divines .
  • A minister of the gospel; a priest; a clergyman.
  • * J. Woodbridge
  • The first divines of New England were surpassed by none in extensive erudition.
  • God or a god, particularly in its aspect as a transcendental concept
  • Synonyms
    * (sense) clergyman, cleric, man of the cloth, theologian * (a deity) deity, god, God, Allah (Muslim)
    Derived terms
    * archdivine * school-divine

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) deviner, from (etyl) divino.

    Verb

    (divin)
  • to foretell (something), especially by the use of divination
  • * Bancroft
  • a sagacity which divined the evil designs
  • * Shakespeare
  • Darest thou divine his downfall?
  • to guess (something)
  • * 1874 ,
  • no secret can be told
    To any who divined it not before
  • * 1919 ,
  • If in the loneliness of his studio he wrestled desperately with the Angel of the Lord he never allowed a soul to divine his anguish.
  • * 2005 , .
  • I suppose that we truly are divining that what is is some third thing when we say that change and stability are.
  • to search for (underground objects or water) using a divining rod
  • To render divine; to deify.
  • * Spenser
  • Living on earth like angel new divined .
    Derived terms
    (derived terms) * divinable * divined * divinement * diviner * divineress * divining * divinise, divinize * divinister

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