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  1. preposition In or through the position or interval separating: between the trees; between 11 o'clock and 12 o'clock.
  2. preposition Intermediate to, as in quantity, amount, or degree: It costs between 15 and 20 dollars.
  3. preposition Usage Problem Connecting spatially: a railroad between the two cities.
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  • Now I recalled things—little things, but significant all the same: the exchanges in French between Connors and Lash, the guarded looks. —  Marcia Muller - [16] A Wild and Lonely Place
  • N.'s judicious remarks, and by this means, from living in the same house with him, I preceded the public in inspecting some of her productions; particularly her MS. Poem on the “Slave Trade,” and her “Bas Bleu.” When a boy, many an evening do I recollect to have listened in wonderment to colloquisms and disputations carried on in Latin between Mr. Newton and John Henderson. —  Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey
  • Books published in English between January 1 and October 15, 2008, are eligible. —  MotherReader
  • Hopefully though, Washington's rising Russia hands will know the difference between the Russian word for "reset" and "overload" —  Russia Blog
  • A couple of days ago, on Passover, I got to wondering if there was a connection between the Hebrew word "Pesach," meaning Passover, and the word "Paschal" referring to Easter in Church Latin and various Romance languages. —  Science Made Cool
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  1. Middle English bitwene, from Old English betwēonum; see dwo- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from (1) Middle English betwene, bitwenen, etc., from Anglo-Saxon betweónum, betwy¯num, betwīnun, betweónan, betwīnan, bitweónum, etc. (orig. separate, as in be sǣm tweónum, between the seas, literally ‘by seas twain’), from be, preposition, by, + tweónum, dative plural of *tweón; (2) Middle English betwen, betwene, bitwene, etc. (mixed with preceding), from Anglo-Saxon (Old Northumbrian) betweón, betwēn, bitwēn, etc., from be, preposition, by, + tweón, accusative of *tweón, plural *twēne (= Old Saxon OFries. twēne = Old High German Middle High German zwēne, German zween), two, twain, orig. distributive (= Gothic (Moesogothic) tweihnai = Latin bīni, Old Latin *duīni), two each, from twā (twi-), two: see two, and cf. twin, twain. The forms of between have always interchanged with those of betwixt (which see).
  2. from between, prep.
 

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