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/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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Etymology of 'Between'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Between" Quotes from Famous Books

... "Book of Wisdom." The priests of Egypt took the greatest trouble to compose Books of the Dead and Guides to the Other World in order to help the souls of the dead to traverse in safety the region that lay between this world and the next, or Dead Land, and the high officials who flourished under the Pharaohs of the early dynasties drew up works, the object of which was to enable the living man to conduct himself in such a way as to satisfy his social superiors, to please his equals, and to content ...

— The Literature of the Ancient Egyptians • E. A. Wallis Budge

... Mr Meldrum, the passenger, who was a delighted observer of the good feeling existing between the captain and second in command of the vessel in which, like Caesar, he had "embarked himself and all his fortunes," and was now journeying across the surface of the deep—a good feeling that was fairly indicative of everything going well on the voyage—he ...

— The Wreck of the Nancy Bell - Cast Away on Kerguelen Land • J. C. Hutcheson

... she found that her canoe, urged on by the current, had floated into a large cave, and was firmly wedged in between two rocks; and her little boy, with his bow and arrow in his hand, was quietly sleeping by her side. Dislodging the canoe, she plied the oars, and ...

— Sanders' Union Fourth Reader • Charles W. Sanders

... the animals, leads to a fight, was rapidly nailing boards over the ventilating spaces above the cages. Madam Morelli, whip and training rod in hand, hurried from her dressing room to the runway, and every keeper and trainer seemed to be loitering in the space between the ...

— Side Show Studies • Francis Metcalfe

... Hence Augustine says (De Trin. ix, 6): "We gaze on the inviolable truth whence we can as perfectly as possible define, not what each man's mind is, but what it ought to be in the light of the eternal types." There is, however, a difference between these two kinds of knowledge, and it consists in this, that the mere presence of the mind suffices for the first; the mind itself being the principle of action whereby it perceives itself, and hence it is said to know itself by its own presence. But as regards the second ...

— Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) - From the Complete American Edition • Thomas Aquinas

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