Share vs Private - What's the difference?
share | private |
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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*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-21, author=(Oliver Burkeman)
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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.
Belonging to, concerning, or accessible only to an individual person or a specific group.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-14, author=(Jonathan Freedland)
, volume=189, issue=1, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= Not in governmental office or employment.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author=(Peter Wilby)
, volume=189, issue=6, page=30, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= Not publicly known; not open; secret.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=20 Protected from view or disturbance by others; secluded.
Intended only for the use of an individual, group, or organization.
Not accessible by the public.
Not traded by the public.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=70, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= Secretive; reserved.
(US, of a room in a medical facility) Not shared with another patient.
The lowest rank of the army.
A soldier of the rank of private.
(in plural privates) A euphemistic term for the genitals.
(obsolete) A secret message; a personal unofficial communication.
(obsolete) Personal interest; particular business.
* Ben Jonson
(obsolete) Privacy; retirement.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) One not invested with a public office.
* Shakespeare
A private lesson.
As nouns the difference between share and private
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 private is the lowest rank of the army.As a verb share
is to give part of what one has to somebody else to use or consume.As an adjective private is
belonging to, concerning, or accessible only to an individual person or a specific group.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
*private
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Obama's once hip brand is now tainted, passage=Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.}}
Finland spreads word on schools, passage=Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16.
citation, passage=The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen.
Engineers of a different kind, passage=Private -equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster.}}
Synonyms
* (done in the view of others ): secluded * (intended only for one's own use ): personal * (not accessible by the public ):Antonyms
* publicNoun
(en noun)- (Shakespeare)
- Nor must I be unmindful of my private .
- Go off; I discard you; let me enjoy my private .
- What have kings, that privates have not too?
- If you want to learn ballet, consider taking privates .