Share vs Pear - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between share and pear

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 pear is an edible fruit produced by the pear tree, similar to an apple but elongated towards the stem.

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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pear

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Noun

(en noun)

An edible fruit produced by the pear tree, similar to an apple but elongated towards the stem.

(also'' pear tree ) A type of fruit tree (''Pyrus communis ).

The wood of the pear tree.

Choke pear (a torture device).

Derived terms

* alligator pear * anchovy-pear * apple-pear * apples and pears * Asian pear * avocado pear * balsam pear * butter-pear * cactus pear * Callery pear * Chinese pear, Chinese white pear * choke-pear * European pear * garlic pear * grape pear * greening-pear * hard pear * Japanese pear * Korean pear * Le Conte pear * Malvern pear * Moorcroft pear * Nashi pear * pear-apple * pear blight * pear drop * pear-encrinite * pear-gauge * pear-haw * pear leaf blister mite * pear leaf blister moth * pear leaf-curling midge, pear leaf midge * pear-louse * pear midge * pearmonger * pear orchard * pear oyster scale * pear-plum * pear psylla * pear-quince * pear-shaped * pear-shell * pear-slug * pear-sucker * pear-thorn * pear thrips * pear tree * pear-wise * pear-withe * pear-wood * peary * perry * prickly pear * sand Pear * snow pear * sugar-pear * snowy pear * Stinking Bishop pear * strawberry pear * Taiwan pear * vegetable pear * vine-pear * wax pear * willowleaf pear, willow-leafed pear * wooden pear * Ya Pear

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