sharing

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

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• Hyphenation: shar‧ing
• Rhymes: -ɛəɹɪŋ

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, […]

sharing

1. present participle and gerund of share

• Harings, garnish, rashing

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.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ʃariŋ/

sharing f

1. slope, declivity

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