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Between   /bɪtwˈin/  /bitwˈin/   Listen
preposition
Between  prep.  
1.
In the space which separates; betwixt; as, New York is between Boston and Philadelphia.
2.
Used in expressing motion from one body or place to another; from one to another of two. "If things should go so between them."
3.
Belonging in common to two; shared by both. "Castor and Pollux with only one soul between them."
4.
Belonging to, or participated in by, two, and involving reciprocal action or affecting their mutual relation; as, opposition between science and religion. "An intestine struggle, open or secret, between authority and liberty."
5.
With relation to two, as involved in an act or attribute of which another is the agent or subject; as, to judge between or to choose between courses; to distinguish between you and me; to mediate between nations.
6.
In intermediate relation to, in respect to time, quantity, or degree; as, between nine and ten o'clock.
Between decks, the space, or in the space, between the decks of a vessel.
Between ourselves, Between you and me, Between themselves, in confidence; with the understanding that the matter is not to be communicated to others.
Synonyms: Between, Among. Between etymologically indicates only two; as, a quarrel between two men or two nations; to be between two fires, etc. It is however extended to more than two in expressing a certain relation. "I... hope that between public business, improving studies, and domestic pleasures, neither melancholy nor caprice will find any place for entrance." Among implies a mass or collection of things or persons, and always supposes more than two; as, the prize money was equally divided among the ship's crew.


noun
Between  n.  Intermediate time or space; interval. (Poetic & R.)





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"Between" Quotes from Famous Books



... PATOU'S last words, sticking his head between the bars of his cage.] Still harping on the dachshund, is he? What's the odds, old chappie? You were the goat!—How ...
— Chantecler - Play in Four Acts • Edmond Rostand
... seemed interminable, and meanwhile the riflemen within the stockade and the carbineers without exchanged several volleys, and in between there was an indecisive pattering of independent rifles, and Jim saw the vague figures of his comrades falling in the gloom, falling falteringly, without apparent motive. He could not connect the discharge of the guns with the dropping ...
— In the Roaring Fifties • Edward Dyson
... no scenes; even Trixie, who felt it most, was calm, for, after all, Mark would not be so very far away, he had said she might come and see him sometimes; the other two were civil, and cold, there being that curious latent antipathy between them and him which sometimes exists ...
— The Giant's Robe • F. Anstey
... to talk of it whimsically as a kind of tomb, where you went, as the Eastern people did in the stories, to think of your unsuccessful loves and dead relations. "There is a dreary classicality at that establishment calculated to freeze the marrow. Between ourselves, even one's best friends there are at times very aggravating. One tires of seeing a man, through any number of acts, remembering everything by patting his forehead with the flat of his hand, jerking out sentences by shaking himself, ...
— The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete • John Forster
... nodded. He had never spoken of the bitterness of that, even to his mother. And here was the difference between the Saxon and ...
— The Crossing • Winston Churchill


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