单词 | sharer |
释义 | sharern. 1. a. A person who shares something. Frequently followed by of or in, introducing a prepositional phrase indicating that which is shared. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > sharing > [noun] > a sharer partnerc1300 parcenera1325 partaker?a1425 parcenela1450 partman1468 party-taker?c1475 partsman1483 snapperc1555 partakener1565 sharer1580 co-sharer1596 sharesman1635 comportioner1706 1580 T. Churchyard Warning for Wise sig. C.vv Wee may be pertakers of thy heuenly felicitie and felow sharers with thy Saints and martirs to glorify thy name. 1609 S. Daniel Civile Wares (rev. ed.) iv. iv. 88 Most it seem'd the French King to import; As sharer in his daughters iniurie. 1622 S. Rowlands Good Newes & Bad Newes 13 That had beene sharers long and many a day Of what they got vpon the common way. 1643 Ld. Falkland Let. 15 Apr. in Charles I Wks. (1662) II. 282 Those dangerous Distractions which the interest of any Sharers with Him would have infallibly produced. 1782 J. Brown Compend. View Nat. & Revealed Relig. iv. ii. 356 Till Jesus have..made me an effectual sharer in the virtue of his intercession. 1821 W. Scott Kenilworth III. x. 180 I have made her sharer of my bed and of my fortunes. 1869 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (1876) III. xi. 7 Already a sharer in some sort in the honours of royalty. 1885 Manch. Examiner 30 Dec. 5/3 To make them sharers with ourselves in all the reforms which are necessary to good government. 1953 D. Whipple Someone at Distance (1999) xvii. 211 A loved husband is the companion of companions, the supreme sharer. 2001 Financial Times 27 Jan. (Personal Finance Q. Review) 24/6 Mr Gould believes his clients, who typically buy two-storey houses and let them to three or four sharers, are unlikely to be affected by the new legislation. b. As the second element in compounds where the first element denotes what is shared.Compounds of this type can also refer to devices designed to share something, e.g. file sharer n., time-sharer n.See also flat-sharer n., house-sharer n., job-sharer n., profit sharer n. ΚΠ a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) ii. vii. 65 These three World-sharers, these Competitors Are in thy vessell. 1776 St. James's Chron. 23–5 July Such are some of the blessed Effects of having Contractors, their Partners, and Profit-Sharers in the House of Commons! 1850 T. A. Buckley tr. Euripides Electra in Tragedies (1865) II. 270 Ye must be as my hearth-sharers in the feast. 1930 Ann. Amer. Acad. Polit. & Social Sci. 150 238/2 The growing of cereals was largely left to renters, subrenters, and crop-sharers. 1991 R. W. B. Lewis Jameses 671 This work began in fact as a collaborative venture with my former student, colleague, and office-sharer. 2005 Express & Echo (Exeter) (Nexis) 23 May 22 The virus is transmitted by infected body fluids, and needle sharers are at particular risk. 2. a. Theatre. Each of those members of a company of actors who paid the expenses, received the profits, and hired the other members of the company. Now historical. N.E.D. (1913) included an apparently earlier example, cited from a document printed in John Collier's New Facts Life Shakespeare (1835); scholars now consider this document to be one of a number of forgeries by Collier. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > actor > [noun] > company of actors > sharer in company sharer1602 1602 B. Jonson Poetaster iv. iv. sig. G4v Hist[rio]... They directed a Letter to mee, and my fellow Sharers. Lupus. Speake lower; you are not now i' your Theater, Stager. View more context for this quotation 1610 Histrio-mastix v. G 1 Soul[diers]. Come on Players, now we are the Sharers And you the hired men. c1613 Articles of Agreement in P. Henslowe Henslowe Papers (1907) 23 Ffower or ffive Sharers of the saide Company. 1704 Royal Order 17 Jan. in London Gaz. No. 3985/1 The Managers, Sharers and Actors of the said Companies. 1845 Edinb. Rev. Apr. 349 They were leading performers and sharers in the company of the King's Players. 1929 Mod. Lang. Rev. 24 131 As a sharer he figures in a variety of documents relating to the company. 2012 M. Aaron in A. F. Kinney Oxf. Handbk. Shakespeare xxiii. 422 The sharers in the Chamberlain's and the King's Men were drawn from the principal actors. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > [noun] > holder of stocks or shares sharer1667 actionist1720 actionary1728 stockholder1753 shareholder1755 actioner1825 holder1848 sokaiya1971 1667 A. Cowley in K. Philips Poems (new ed.) sig. f2v The trade of Glory managed by the pen..Does bring in but small profit to us men; 'Tis by the number of the sharers drown'd. 1715 London Gaz. No. 5348/9 They hereby require, That all the Sharers do pay..two Guineas per Share. 1740 W. Douglass Disc. Currencies Brit. Plantations in Amer. 12 They who take up this Loan Money are called Sharers. 1813 H. Smith & J. Smith Horace in London i. xxxv. 102 But fire, alas! to smoak will turn, And sharers, though no houses burn, Are sure to burn their fingers. 3. A person who is given to sharing or divulging personal information. ΚΠ 1999 Girls' Life Feb. 86/1 Pat: Do you think guys are good at sharing their feelings? Carl: We all stink at it. Except for Zac—he's a sharer. 2003 J. Heller Lucky Stars (2004) 231 He tells me everything, because he's a sharer. 2016 P. Ryan Dream Life of Astronauts (2017) 162 I know more about her than I do about anyone down here—she's a sharer. 2018 @rheumarhyme 8 Oct. in twitter.com (accessed 10 Nov. 2021) Not everyone is a sharer. I'm very shy myself! Phrases† to go sharers (also occasionally to run sharers): to share or contribute towards something with another person; to share or participate together in an activity, enterprise, condition, etc.; = to go shares at share n.2 Phrases 4b. Typically followed by a prepositional phrase introduced by in or with. Cf. to run shares at share n.2 Phrases 4a. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1644 D. Whitby Vindic. Forme of Common Prayers in Vindic. True Protestant 32 Next follow the Collects for the King and Day, which must goe sharers with the former Collects both for displeasure and acceptance. 1647 J. Mayne Serm. against False Prophets 5 Some false Prophets there were, who, to goe sharers in that gaine, by the Holinesse of their Function, did disguise and dawbe them. a1705 G. Andrews Serm. Epist. Paul to Hebrews (1711) 137 He hath sole Title to us, none run Sharers with him. 1733 Oxf. Act ii. 19 If we can write an Answer, I fancy we shall get something by it, and so, Sir, we will go Sharers. 1815 Agric. Mag. Nov. 322 [It] will prove an important acquisition upon a large farm, and the smaller farmers may go sharers in one. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2022). < n.1580 |
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