Sharing
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
sharing
adj 1: unselfishly willing to share with others; "a warm and
sharing friend"
n 1: using or enjoying something jointly with others
2: having in common; "the sharing of electrons creates
molecules"
3: sharing thoughts and feelings [syn: {communion}, {sharing}]
4: a distribution in shares [syn: {sharing}, {share-out}]
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Share \Share\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Shared}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Sharing}.]
1. To part among two or more; to distribute in portions; to
divide.
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Suppose I share my fortune equally between my
children and a stranger. --Swift.
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2. To partake of, use, or experience, with others; to have a
portion of; to take and possess in common; as, to share a
shelter with another.
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While avarice and rapine share the land. --Milton.
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3. To cut; to shear; to cleave; to divide. [Obs.]
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The shared visage hangs on equal sides. --Dryden.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
128 Moby Thesaurus words for "sharing":
accessory, accord, accordance, affiliation, affinity, agape,
agreement, amity, announcement, apportionment, association,
bonds of harmony, brotherly love, budgeting, caring, caritas,
cement of friendship, charity, chord, cochairmanship, communion,
community, community of interests, companionship, company,
compatibility, complicity, concern, concord, concordance,
condominium, congeniality, consociation, contribution, conveyance,
cooperation, copartnership, copartnery, correspondence, cotenancy,
cutting, cutting the pie, disclosure, dividing, division, divvy,
echo, empathy, engaged, engagement, esprit, esprit de corps,
feeling of identity, fellow feeling, fellowship, fraternity,
fraternization, frictionlessness, giving, good vibes,
good vibrations, happy family, harmony, having a part,
identification, identity, impartation, imparting, impartment,
implicated, involved, involvement, joint chairmanship,
joint control, joint ownership, joint tenancy, kinship,
like-mindedness, love, membership, mutuality, notification,
oneness, parceling, partaking, participant, participating,
participation, participative, participatory, partition,
partitioning, partnership, pathos, peace, portioning, publication,
rapport, rapprochement, rationing, reciprocity, relating,
repartition, response, responsiveness, sharing out, slicing,
society, solidarity, splitting, suffrage, sympathetic chord,
sympathetic response, sympathy, symphony, team spirit, telling,
transfer, transference, transmission, transmittal, understanding,
union, unison, unity, vibes, vibrations, voting
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