Sheer vs Share - What's the difference?
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(textiles) Very thin or transparent.
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(obsolete) Pure; unmixed.
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Being only what it seems to be; mere.
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Very steep; almost vertical or perpendicular.
Used to emphasize the amount or degree of something.
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(nautical) The curve of the main deck or gunwale from bow to stern.
(nautical) An abrupt swerve from the course of a ship.
(chiefly, nautical) To swerve from a course.
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(obsolete) To shear.
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.
As nouns the difference between sheer and share
is that sheer is (nautical) the curve of the main deck or gunwale from bow to stern while 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.As verbs the difference between sheer and share
is that sheer is (chiefly|nautical) to swerve from a course while share is to give part of what one has to somebody else to use or consume.As an adjective sheer
is (textiles) very thin or transparent.As an adverb sheer
is (archaic) clean; quite; at once.sheer
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), (m), (m), from (etyl) .Adjective
(en-adj)- sheer ale
- Thou sheer , immaculate, and silver fountain.
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- Cycling's complex etiquette contains an unwritten rule that riders in contention for a race win should not be penalised for sheer misfortune.
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- Perhaps as startling as the sheer toll was the devastation to some of the state’s well-known locales. Boardwalks along the beach in Seaside Heights, Belmar and other towns on the Jersey Shore were blown away. Amusement parks, arcades and restaurants all but vanished. Bridges to barrier islands buckled, preventing residents from even inspecting the damage to their property.
Synonyms
* (very thin or transparent) diaphanous, see-through, thin * downright, mere, pure, undiluted, unmitigated * (straight up and down) perpendicular, steep, verticalEtymology 2
; see also (m).Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)- A horse sheers at a bicycle.
- I sheered her well inshore—the water being deepest near the bank, as the sounding–pole informed me.
- (Dryden)
Anagrams
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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
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