Word Finder - shares

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A portion of something, especially a portion given or allotted to someone.

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A financial instrument that shows that one owns a part of a company that provides the benefit of limited liability.

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A configuration enabling a resource to be shared over a network.

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Upload media from the browser or directly to the file share.

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The action of sharing something with other people via social media.

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The sharebone or pubis.

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To give part of what one has to somebody else to use or consume.

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To have or use in common.

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to share a shelter with another;  They share a language.

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To divide and distribute.

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To tell to another.

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He shared his story with the press.

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The cutting blade of an agricultural machine like a plough, a cultivator or a seeding-machine.

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To cut; to shear; to cleave; to divide.

We were each given shares of stock, fully paid for, that would provide substantial dividends for future years.

She certainly shares our opinion that the current day Dawkins are a sorry lot.

It shares with the emperor the legislative power, including the discussion and sanctioning of the budget.

She became the beneficial owner of all the shares in the Talyllyn Railroad Company.

The respective shares of the leading customs in the tfade of the country is approximately shown in the following table, which gives the value of their exports and imports (general trade) in 1905 in millions sterling.

To,the above taxes must be added the tax on Stock Exchange transactions and the tax of 4% on dividends from stocks and shares (other than state loans).

The state owned, in 1909, 30,002 shares of stock in the North Carolina Railroad Company,' with a market value (1907) of $5,580,372 (the stock being quoted at 186), and an annual income of $210,014 and 12,666 shares of stock in the Atlantic & North Carolina Railroad Company, from which the annual income is $31,665.

By agreement with the Ministry of the Interior, as soon as the reserve exceeded by io% the working capital (which was partly in shares, partly in bank advances) the company was to sell food under cost price; and this actually happened.

Vodafone will likely maintain a very small percentage of preferred shares after the hand off.

The Bank of the Republic was established in 1896 with a nominal capital of $12,000,000, and in 1899 it received the right to issue further shares amounting to $5,000,000.

The Egyptian government subscribed for eighty millions' worth of shares.

Through confiscation of money, and deposits in banks removed to Russia, cancellation of shares, destruction of private and public bonds, and loss of interest, a loss of 379,- 000,000 gold rubles was caused by Russia, and 6,000,000 marks by Germany.

He shares with Daru the honour of being the hardest worker and most devoted supporter in Napoleon's service; but it has generally been considered that he carried devotion to the length of servility, and thus often compromised the real interests of France.

And, their own predominance being assured by their numerical strength and influence, they accorded equal shares of power to the other monti.

The king is the head of the executive, the supreme commander of the armed forces of the nation, and shares the legislative power with the parliament.

In this respect the greatest efforts have naturally been made by Hamburg; but Magdeburg, Dresden, Meissen, Riesa, Tetschen, Aussig and other places have all done their relative shares, Magdeburg, for instance, providing a commercial harbour and a winter harbour.

Here at least the medieval system, in spite of any anomalies with respect to modern conditions, has resisted reform, and no other municipal body shares the traditions and peculiar dignity of the City Corporation.

The shares, when made of the same material, required constant sharpening; this necessity was removed by the device, patented by Robert Ransome in 1803, of chilling and so hardening the under-surface of the share; the upper surface, which is soft, then wears away more quickly than the chilled part, whereby a sharp edge is always assured.

The drug is largely employed in cases of Bright's disease and dropsy from any cause, being especially useful when the liver shares in the general venous congestion.

In his new position he was allowed, probably from regard to Aquitanian susceptibilities, to govern with an independence which was studiously denied to his brothers in their shares of the Angevin inheritance.

During such periods of excitement it is even able, by the pressure of the muscles on the poison-duct, to eject the fluid to some distance; hence it shares with the cobra a third Dutch name, that of "spuw slang" (spitting snake).

The residency shares with that of Ternate the administration of the Moluccas, the previous government of which was abolished in 1867.

By 1892 the leading mines had proved their dividend-earning capacity, and in 1895 there was a great "boom" in the shares of the mining companies.

The boundarystones between properties (termini) were also the objects of cult at the annual festival of the Terminalia, and the "god Terminus," the symbolic boundary-stone, shares with Jupiter the great temple on the Capitol.

The literary and historical criticism of EzraNehemiah is closely bound up with that of Chronicles, whose characteristic features it shares.

Revenues for state purposes are derived from special taxes collected from the liquor traffic, corporations, transfers of decedents' estates, transfers of shares of stock, recording tax on mortgages, sales of products of state institutions, fees of public officers including fines and penalties, interest on deposits of state funds, refunds from department examinations and revenue from investments of trust funds, the most important of which are the common school fund and the United States deposit fund.

By the 1st of January 1849 he had reduced his interest to 312 shares out of loo; by July 2nd, 1860, to 15 shares; in 1868 he owned only 9; and in 1872, only 6.

Mosul shares the severe alternations of temperature experienced by upper Mesopotamia.

Of the rest, whose personalities are less known to us, Papias shares Polycarp's qualities and their limitations, the anonymous homilist and Hermas are marked by intense moral earnestness, while the writer to Diognetus joins to this a profound religious insight.

When taken by the mouth, cod-liver oil shares with other liver-oils the property of ready absorption.

In these editions, partly texts, partly translations, it is impossible to determine the respective shares of Erasmus and his many helpers.

A constitutional provision makes each stockholder in a state bank liable to the amount of his share or shares for all the bank's debts and liabilities.

In spite of his radical opinions he made a furious attack on the admiralty for the new prize money regulations which diminished the shares of the captains to the advantage of the men.

The older part of the urban district is included in the parliamentary borough of Merthyr Tydfil, and also shares with Merthyr and Aberdare the services of a stipendiary magistrate.

Even in the spiritual labours which the Society shares with the other orders, its own ways of dealing with persons and things result from the system of training which succeeds in forming men to a type that is considered desirable.

This peculiarity the Basilidian system shares with that of Satornil of Antioch, which has only come down to us in a very fragmentary state, and in other respects recalls in many ways the popular Gnosticism.

It is true that the translation is more careful and correct than some of the renderings noticed above, but on the other hand it shares all their faults.

There is a governor's council of five members, one from each councillor district, which has advisory duties and shares with the governor most of his powers.

The latter, often also called Ox-bird, Plover's Page, Purre and Stint, - names which it shares with some other species, - not only breeds commonly on many of the elevated moors of Britain, but in autumn resorts in countless flocks to the shores.

It shares the old Schwarzburg lands with Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt.

Thus did mankind come into existence, its various members possessing very different shares of light, but the men having uniformly a larger measure of it than the women.

The shares of different nationalities in the aggregate mass of foreigners have varied greatly.

In the production of pig iron, the share of the United States seems to have been in 1850 about one-eighth and that of Great Britain onehalf of the worlds product; while in 1903 the respective shares were 38.8 and 19.3%; and Germanys also slightly exceeded the British output.

After Europe the largest shares of exports are taken by North America, Asia and Oceania, South America and Africa in order.

Rice, which shares with millet the distinction of being the principal food-stuff of the greatest number of human beings, is not grown nearly as widely as is wheat, the staple food of the white races.

In disposing of some of the stock of this company, Ames in1867-1871sold a number of shares to members of Congress at a price much below what these shares eventually proved to be worth.

As Whip the Master of Elibank earned high praise for his energy and tact; but he was somewhat unfortunately mixed up with the " Marconi Scandal " in connexion with Mr. Lloyd George and Sir Rufus Isaacs, as having invested part of the Liberal Party funds in American Marconi shares in which he, with them, was speculating - a transaction hotly debated in Parliament in 1913.

In 1798 its name was changed to Washington Academy, in recognition of a gift from George Washington of some shares of canal stock, which he refused to receive from the Virginia legislature.

A considerable business is done on the exchange, chiefly in local industrial shares, and the financial institutions number some fifty banks, among them branches of the Reichs Bank and of the Deutsche Bank.

His third position is his actualistic theory of soul, which he shares with Fichte, Hegel, Fechner and Paulsen.