SHARING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sharing mean? 

• SHARING (noun)
  The noun SHARING has 4 senses:

1. using or enjoying something jointly with others

2. having in common

3. sharing thoughts and feelings

4. a distribution in shares

  Familiarity information: SHARING used as a noun is uncommon.

• SHARING (adjective)
  The adjective SHARING has 1 sense:

1. unselfishly willing to share with others

  Familiarity information: SHARING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SHARING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Using or enjoying something jointly with others

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Hypernyms ("sharing" is a kind of...):

interdependence; interdependency; mutuality (a reciprocal relation between interdependent entities (objects or individuals or groups))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sharing"):

time sharing ((computer science) the use of a central computer by many users simultaneously)

Derivation:

share (use jointly or in common)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Having in common

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Context example:

the sharing of electrons creates molecules

Hypernyms ("sharing" is a kind of...):

interdependence; interdependency; mutuality (a reciprocal relation between interdependent entities (objects or individuals or groups))

Derivation:

share (have in common)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Sharing thoughts and feelings

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

communion; sharing

Hypernyms ("sharing" is a kind of...):

intercourse; social intercourse (communication between individuals)

Derivation:

share (communicate)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A distribution in shares

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

share-out; sharing

Hypernyms ("sharing" is a kind of...):

distribution (the act of distributing or spreading or apportioning)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sharing"):

generosity; unselfishness (acting generously)

gift; giving (the act of giving)

Derivation:

share (give out as one's portion or share)

• SHARING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Unselfishly willing to share with others

Context example:

a warm and sharing friend

Similar:

unselfish (disregarding your own advantages and welfare over those of others)

 Context examples 

A fibrosarcoma, occurring in infants and young children, sharing identical morphologic features with adult fibrosarcoma.

(Infantile Fibrosarcoma, NCI Thesaurus)

It may also spread by sharing drug needles or through contact with the blood of an infected person.

(HIV/AIDS, NIH)

Its primary purpose is to facilitate the sharing of data across different systems, particularly systems connected via the Internet.

(Extensible Markup Language, NCI Thesaurus)

Many countries and health organizations are working together and sharing information on these and other health issues.

(International Health, NIH)

But Peggotty, instead of sharing in those transports, tried to check them (though very kindly), and looked confused and out of sorts.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Yet scientists have been unable to determine whether this is due to the two conditions sharing common genetic factors or whether shared environmental factors provide the link.

(Inflammation links heart disease and depression, University of Cambridge)

A collection of things sharing a common attribute.

(Family Collection, NCI Thesaurus)

Although these intergalactic winds are thought to be very fast – maybe several hundred kilometers or miles per second – the vast distances involved means this atom sharing would've taken place over billions of years.

(Half Our Body's Atoms Could Have Come from Outside The Galaxy, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

There has been ten times more sharing between these butterfly species than occurred between Neanderthals and humans.

(Butterflies are genetically wired to choose a mate that looks just like them, University of Cambridge)

Since 2003, around 30 TNOs on highly elliptical orbits have been spotted: they stand out from the rest of the TNOs by sharing, on average, the same spatial orientation.

(Mystery orbits in outermost reaches of solar system not caused by ‘Planet Nine’, University of Cambridge)