sharing

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈʃɛə.ɹɪŋ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈʃɛɚ.ɪŋ/

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• Hyphenation: shar‧ing
• Rhymes: -ɛəɹɪŋ

Noun

sharing (plural sharings)

1. Something shared; a point in common.
   • 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.

2. The act by which something is shared.
   • 1983 February 5, Rhonda Copelon, quotee, “Roe v. Wade: The Challenge of the Next Decade”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 28, page 5:

     Roe v. Wade was preceded by all those moments that make a movement: tentative and explosive sharings in kitchens and CR groups; times of great courage and stillness, […]

Hyponyms

• behind-the-scenes data sharing
• CPU sharing
• data sharing
• file sharing
• power sharing

Derived terms

• call by sharing
• false sharing
• gain-sharing
• job-sharing
• needle sharing
• photo-sharing
• power-sharing
• powersharing
• profit sharing
• revenue sharing grant
• secret sharing
• sharing economy
• sharing is caring
• social sharing
• think-pair-sharing
• time-sharing

Translations

a common point

• Arabic: إِقْتِسَام (ʔiqtisām), مُقَاسَمَة f (muqāsama)
• Bulgarian: подялба (bg) f (podjalba)
• Catalan: repartiment (ca) m
• French: partage (fr) m
• German: Aufteilung (de) f, Teilung (de) f
• Greek: μερισμός (el) m (merismós)
• Russian: раздел (ru) m (razdel), разделение (ru) m (razdelenije)
• Turkish: bölüşme (tr)

action of the verb to share

• Portuguese: compartilhamento (pt) m

Verb

sharing

1. present participle and gerund of share

Anagrams

• Harings, garnish, rashing

Khasi

Etymology

From Proto-Khasian *cʰǝriŋ, from Proto-Austroasiatic *sliŋ ~ sliiŋ ~ sliəŋ ~ slaiŋ (“to be tilted, to squint”). Cognate with Bahnar həreːŋ (“to lean over”), as well as with Bahnar pliːŋ (“to squint”) and Khmer ស្រលៀង (srɑliəng, “cross-eyed”). Doublet of shyngkhliang.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃariŋ/

Noun

sharing f

1. slope, declivity

References

• Singh, U Nissor (1906) Khasi-English dictionary‎^[1], Shillong: Eastern Bengal and Assam Secretariat Press, page 191. Searchable online at SEAlang.net.