Share vs Length - What's the difference?
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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.
The sharebone or pubis.
To give part of what one has to somebody else to use or consume.
To have or use in common.
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*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:while avarice and rapine share the land
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*: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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, title= (lb) To cut; to shear; to cleave; to divide.
*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
*:The shared visage hangs on equal sides.
(agriculture) The cutting blade of an agricultural machine like a plough, a cultivator or a seeding-machine.
The distance measured along the longest dimension of an object.
duration
* Robert Frost
(horse racing) The length of a horse, used to indicate the distance between horses at the end of a race.
(mathematics) Distance between the two ends of a line segment.
(cricket) The distance down the pitch that the ball bounces on its way to the batsman.
(figuratively) Total extent.
Part of something that is long; a physical piece of something.
(obsolete) To lengthen.
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Share is a related term of length.
As nouns the difference between share and length
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 length is the distance measured along the longest dimension of an object.As verbs the difference between share and length
is that share is to give part of what one has to somebody else to use or consume while length is (obsolete) to lengthen.share
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) schare, schere, from (etyl) . Compare (l), (l).Noun
(en noun)- Upload media from the browser or directly to the file share .
- (Holland)
Derived terms
* lion's share * share and share alikeVerb
The tao of tech, passage=The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about […], or offering services that let you
Derived terms
* sharecropping * shareware * sharing economyEtymology 2
From (etyl) share, schare, shaar, from (etyl) scear, . More at (l).Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* ploughshare * plowshareStatistics
*length
English
Noun
(en noun)- Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length .
- the length of a book
- a length of rope
Derived terms
* arm's length * at length * cable length * feature-length * floor-length * focal length * full-length * good length * go to great lengths * half-length * knee-length * lengthen * lengthful * length overall * lengthways * lengthwise * lengthy * line and length * null patch length * overlength * path length * screening length * short of a length * wavelength * zero-length launchingVerb
(en verb)- Pack night, peep day; good day, of night now borrow: / Short night, to-night, and length thyself to-morrow.