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Meaning of 'between' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Between [ n.]
- Intermediate time or space; interval.
2 . Between [ prep.]
- In the space which separates; betwixt; as, New York is between Boston and Philadelphia.
- Used in expressing motion from one body or place to another; from one to another of two.
- Belonging in common to two; shared by both.
- Belonging to, or participated in by, two, and involving reciprocal action or affecting their mutual relation; as, opposition between science and religion.
- 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.
- In intermediate relation to, in respect to time, quantity, or degree; as, between nine and ten o'clock.

Meaning of 'between' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . between [ r]
Meaning (1):
- in the interval
Example in sentence:
  • dancing all the dances with little rest between
Meaning (2):
- in between
Example in sentence:
  • two houses with a tree between

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