2. Used in expressing motion from one body or place to another; from one to another of two. [1913 Webster]
If things should go so between them. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
3. Belonging in common to two; shared by both. [1913 Webster]
Castor and Pollux with only one soul between them. --Locke. [1913 Webster]
4. Belonging to, or participated in by, two, and involving reciprocal action or affecting their mutual relation; as, opposition between science and religion. [1913 Webster]
An intestine struggle, open or secret, between authority and liberty. --Hume. [1913 Webster]
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. [1913 Webster]
6. In intermediate relation to, in respect to time, quantity, or degree; as, between nine and ten o clock. [1913 Webster]
{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. [1913 Webster]
Usage: 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. --Johnson. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster]
Between Be*tween", n. Intermediate time or space; interval. [Poetic & R.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]
to spanish
between [bitwi?n] entre
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to french
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to deutch
between [bitwi?n] dazwischen, unter, zwischen
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between you and me [bitwi?njauændm]
unter uns gesagt
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between you and me and the gatepost
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unter vier Augen
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to latin
between [bitwi?n] inter
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