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Shared vs Sharing - What's the difference?

shared | sharing |

As verbs the difference between shared and sharing

is that shared is past tense of share while sharing is present participle of lang=en.

As an adjective shared

is used by multiple entities or for multiple purposes or in multiple ways.

As a noun sharing is

something shared.

shared

English

Adjective

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  • Used by multiple entities or for multiple purposes or in multiple ways.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=David Simpson
    • , volume=188, issue=26, page=36, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Fantasy of navigation , passage=It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: […];  […]; or perhaps to muse on the irrelevance of the borders that separate nation states and keep people from understanding their shared environment.}}

    Verb

    (head)
  • (share)

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    sharing

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Derived terms

    * sharing economy

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something shared.
  • * 1997 , Roger Blench, ?Matthew Spriggs, Archaeology and Language I
    • IE also has sharings with Nakh-Daghestanian, Semitic, and Sumerian. IE and Kartvelian, and no other languages, share numerals with Semitic.

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