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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
between
adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a correlation exists between sth and sth
▪ A strong correlation exists between social class and exam success.
amalgamation between
▪ an amalgamation between two companies
between...two extremes
▪ In fact, the truth lies between the two extremes.
blur the distinction between sth and sth (=make it less clear)
▪ Both sides in the war had been blurring the distinction between military and civilian targets.
bridge the gap between
▪ Alvin managed to bridge the gap between ballet and modern dance.
intermarriage between
intermarriage between ethnic groups
measure the distance between things
▪ Now we are able to measure the distances between the planets.
put some distance between yourself and sb/sth (=go quite a long way from them)
▪ He wanted to put some distance between himself and his pursuers.
sever ties/relations/connections/links etc (with/between sb)
▪ The two countries severed diplomatic relations.
▪ She had severed all contact with her ex-husband.
there is a similarity between things
▪ There are lots of similarities between the two bikes.
unbridgeable gulf/gap/chasm etc (between sb/sth and sb/sth)
▪ the unbridgeable gulf between the rich and the poor
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
distinguish
▪ More and more consultants were distinguishing between performance-only versus performance-and-change assignments.
▪ You had to go by their strut to distinguish between who should be approached and who avoided.
▪ Toward the end of Period 1, an infant begins to distinguish between objects, a behavior not present at birth.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(put) daylight between yourself and sb
a fine line between sth and sth
▪ It's a fine line between guilt and shame.
▪ There's a fine line between clever and stupid and Warrant are nowhere near it.
a happy medium (between sth and sth)
anywhere between one and ten/anywhere from one to ten etc
be (stuck) between a rock and a hard place
be few and far between
▪ Good jobs are few and far between these days.
▪ The schools are crowded, and good teachers are few and far between.
▪ Toys were few and far between, but the children invented games and played together.
▪ But for all this effort, meaningful accomplishments are few and far between.
▪ Deaf postgraduates, who are few and far between, have little chance of taking a higher degree.
▪ Facilities like the recently opened Russell Cairns Unit in Oxford are few and far between.
▪ Opportunities for young parents to socialize with each other are few and far between these days.
▪ Rough edges are few and far between.
▪ Sanatorium beds were few and far between, and often had to be obtained through influence.
▪ Shop said that all its stores were open but that customers were few and far between.
▪ The instances of this happening are few and far between.
between Scylla and Charybdis
between the devil and the deep blue sea
between you, me, and the gatepost
betwixt and between
▪ Although the process has not turned them into ordinary men they have, in some degree, become betwixt and between.
▪ Both are figures caught betwixt and between, either compromised or radicalized by virtue of being women within a culture.
▪ They reported feelings of marginality, of being betwixt and between.
draw a line (between sth)
▪ Accordingly, the law seems to draw a line between lack of consent and lack of authorisation.
▪ However, there was no facility to simply draw a line and let the computer work out the curves.
▪ The Office of Government Commerce was set up last April to draw a line under this relatively poor performance.
▪ They draw a line that the public, according tothe polls, rejects.
▪ Ventura has effectively drawn a line against his own involvement in the 2000 race.
▪ What you needed for her to do was to draw a line for you.
▪ With a fork draw lines over the warm chocolate to resemble bark.
drive a wedge between sb
▪ Romley's lawsuit drove the wedge even farther between the two former friends.
▪ The war had driven a wedge between the President and his liberal supporters.
▪ Instead of driving a wedge between lovers, a child can expand and deepen that love.
▪ It will potentially drive a wedge between the Catholic H.E.
▪ She'd driven a wedge between herself and Guy.
▪ Such opposition to bureaucratic intrusion drove a wedge between many working-class people and the Fabian socialists.
▪ The deal drove a wedge between the president and fellow Republicans going into the 1992 elections.
▪ The lawsuit also helped drive a wedge between Arpaio and Romley.
▪ The men of violence want to drive a wedge between the forces of law and order and the people they protect.
▪ The papal reform tended to drive a wedge between the educated, celibate higher clergy, and the rank and file.
drive a wedge between sb
▪ Instead of driving a wedge between lovers, a child can expand and deepen that love.
▪ It will potentially drive a wedge between the Catholic H.E.
▪ She'd driven a wedge between herself and Guy.
▪ Such opposition to bureaucratic intrusion drove a wedge between many working-class people and the Fabian socialists.
▪ The deal drove a wedge between the president and fellow Republicans going into the 1992 elections.
▪ The lawsuit also helped drive a wedge between Arpaio and Romley.
▪ The men of violence want to drive a wedge between the forces of law and order and the people they protect.
▪ The papal reform tended to drive a wedge between the educated, celibate higher clergy, and the rank and file.
fall between two stools
▪ Overall, the study seems to fall between two stools.
▪ That was a bad time for her because she fell between two stools in a way.
get the bit between your teeth
poised between sth and sth
▪ Ahead of it the Wyrmberg turned from a distant toy to several billion tons of rock poised between heaven and earth.
▪ Like families gathered at Christmas, social animals are poised between cooperation and conflict.
read between the lines
Reading between the lines, I don't think they want to train people who might soon leave the company.
▪ Perseverance is required to understand the story and you have to read between the lines to find the book's full meaning.
▪ While Anderson did not say directly that changes needed to be made, it was easy to read between the lines.
▪ Although the financial side is far from the whole story, you can usually read between the lines very clearly.
▪ Frequently it is necessary to read between the lines.
▪ Harriet, reading between the lines, knew exactly what her daughter meant.
▪ Jody goes over the two faxes again, this time slowly, trying to read between the lines.
▪ Perseverance is required to understand the story and one had to read between the lines to find the book's full meaning.
▪ Simon presents his story in a typically heroic manner, so I have to read between the lines.
▪ So beware: if we were able to read between the lines that easily, so too can your family and friends!
▪ You will use your powers of anticipation and imagination to read between the lines, to understand message and meaning.
somewhere around/between etc
▪ All the heavy materials came from junk spinning somewhere around in the solar system.
▪ By dimensions and purpose, the 1997 Ford Expedition falls somewhere between affordable housing and the next Trailways bus to Yuma.
▪ Possibly somewhere between 1901 and the present, Bobsworth had been caught with his hand in the cash box.
▪ Problems lie somewhere between puzzles and policy issues.
▪ The ideal size, in peace, is probably somewhere between 12 and 16.
▪ The resulting book falls somewhere between the teen diary / confessional genre and the academic feminist treatise.
▪ There was no definite sound, but he knew that Mabel would be somewhere around.
▪ Your house current is somewhere around 110 volts, which is enough to fry everything inside your machine.
strike a balance (between sth)
▪ Eastin is trying to strike a balance between family life and her work.
▪ Accounts receivable management requires striking a balance between the cost of extending credit and the benefit received from extending credit.
▪ Effective organizations will strike a balance that allows them not only to accept uncertainty but to take advantage of it.
▪ He decided to strike a balance.
▪ How they strike a balance between the two is at the heart of corporate strategy.
▪ In the staffroom, they talk of trying to strike a balance between children seeing teachers as friends, and being over-familiar.
▪ No one can insure against all eventualities and so you strike a balance between the re- and pro- active aspects of your work.
▪ The courts have to try to strike a balance between the two.
▪ The problem of the Volunteer is to strike a balance.
the/a mean between sth and sth
▪ It's a case of finding the mean between firmness and compassion.
▪ A Nothing in comparison with the Infinite, an All in comparison with the Nothing, a mean between nothing and everything.
there is little/nothing to choose between sth
▪ Both make-ups can be available at the same time and, so far as value goes, there is nothing to choose between them.
▪ But there is little to choose between the two in terms of overall performance.
there is no love lost between sb and sb
▪ There's no love lost between Bart and Stephen.
with your tail between your legs
▪ And that is when the toughest Bruin team in years sent the Huskies home with their tails between their legs.
▪ He knows he can not come back with his tail between his legs.
▪ I would go out of the Chamber with my tail between my legs.
▪ Pottz wiped out three waves in a row and crept back in with his tail between his legs.
▪ They got scared and ran away with their tail between their legs.
yawning gap/gulf/chasm (between sth)
▪ A yawning gap was forecast between anticipated social expenditures and resources.
▪ In publishing the Hepplewhite Guide the Taylors were filling a yawning gap.
▪ Passion 57% A yawning chasm opens up after these four attributes.
▪ The yawning gap between the two was deeply worrying.
▪ There are yawning gulfs stretching down into the abyss which have often swallowed up cities that have fallen into them.
▪ There is and always has been a yawning gap at the budget end of the amplifier market.
▪ There was nothing there but a terrible, yawning gap.
▪ To a yawning gap in how I see the world and how the world sees me.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ two yards with a fence between
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Between

Between \Be*tween"\, n. Intermediate time or space; interval. [Poetic & R.]
--Shak.

Between

Between \Be*tween"\, prep. [OE. bytwene, bitweonen, AS. betwe['o]nan, betwe['o]num; prefix be- by + a form fr. AS. tw[=a] two, akin to Goth. tweihnai two apiece. See Twain, and cf. Atween, Betwixt.]

  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.
    --Bacon.

  3. Belonging in common to two; shared by both.

    Castor and Pollux with only one soul between them.
    --Locke.

  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.
    --Hume.

  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.

    Syn: Between, Among.

    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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
between

Old English betweonum "between, among, by turns," Mercian betwinum, from bi- "by" (see be-) + tweonum dative plural of *tweon "two each" (compare Gothic tweih-nai "two each"). Between a rock and a hard place is from 1940s, originally cowboy slang. Between-whiles is from 1670s.

Wiktionary
between

n. A kind of needle, shorter than a sharp, with a small rounded eye, used for making fine stitches on heavy fabrics. prep. In the position or interval that separates (two things), or intermediate in quantity or degree. (See the Usage notes below.)

WordNet
between
  1. adv. in the interval; "dancing all the dances with little rest between" [syn: betwixt]

  2. in between; "two houses with a tree between" [syn: 'tween]

Gazetteer
Between, GA -- U.S. town in Georgia
Population (2000): 148
Housing Units (2000): 63
Land area (2000): 0.868533 sq. miles (2.249491 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.868533 sq. miles (2.249491 sq. km)
FIPS code: 07640
Located within: Georgia (GA), FIPS 13
Location: 33.813956 N, 83.809170 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
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Wikipedia
Between

Between may refer to:

Between (TV series)

Between is a Canadian science fiction drama television series which debuted on May 21, 2015, on City. Created by Michael McGowan, the series stars Jennette McCurdy as Wiley Day, a pregnant teenage daughter of a minister living in the small town of Pretty Lake, which is coping with a mysterious disease that has killed everybody over age 21.

The series is a co-production with Netflix, which distributes the series outside of Canada as a Netflix original series. The series was renewed for a second season on July 8, 2015, which premiered on June 30, 2016.

Between (fictional place)

Between in Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern series is a dimension through which dragons, watch-whers and fire lizards travel during the process of teleportation, referred to as "going between". If the dragon does not have a clear picture of its destination in mind, it is possible for the dragon and its passengers to become permanently lost in this dimension. Deliberately going between without a destination in mind is how dragons commit suicide, usually occurring when the rider that they are soul-bonded to dies of illness or injury, or if the dragon itself is mortally injured. Many characters, fire lizards, and dragons have been lost between (i.e. " Moreta's Ride"). In Todd McCaffrey's Dragonsblood, several make it out of between after they are lost.

Between is universally described as a place of nothingness. Usually, for a dragon to teleport using its rider's directions, they stay in between for the time that it takes to cough three times. Fire lizards take eight seconds to teleport anywhere on the planet. Between frequently causes cystitis and child-bearing problems in female dragonriders. Going between without proper coordinates is a frequent cause of death for inexperienced weyrlings. Dragons generally excrete in between, except young dragons.

Between is characterized by extreme cold (far below zero yet not as cold as outer space) and induces near-total sensory deprivation in humans who travel through it on dragonback. There appears to be no breathable air between, and riders who make exceptionally long journeys suffer the effects of oxygen deprivation. In later books, an expedition on dragonback to the Red Star involved riders wearing spacesuits to alleviate this problem; dragons can hold their breath for much longer than humans without ill effects. Dragons and fire lizards deliberately go between to destroy any Thread which they come in contact with, as the extreme cold causes it to freeze almost instantly, whereupon it can be safely brushed off dragon or rider.

Dragons are also capable of travelling between times, but this can only be used when they have a point of reference for that time, such as star positions or a vivid memory. The White Dragon, Ruth, could travel between to any time without fail, including to the future. "Timing it" was known to many riders a long time ago, but, since Lessa and Ramoth brought the weyrs forward, it was kept a secret. Riders who "Time" to a very distant era without protective gear, or to a past location in close proximity of their past self can experience fatal fatigue and disorientation. Since its discovery, the knowledge of this ability has been restricted, and only Bronze dragons are permitted to make use of it under directions from the Weyrleaders. The ability was suppressed by the nature of the weyrling training in going between, as weyrlings were deliberately given reference points which would ensure they remained in their own time. It was only when Lessa jumped between on her own initiative when barely trained that she rediscovered the capability.

Usage examples of "between".

If it be possible to measure the interval between the philosophic writings of Cicero and the sacred legend of Theodoret, between the character of Cato and that of Simeon, we may appreciate the memorable revolution which was accomplished in the Roman empire within a period of five hundred years.

The difference between us is a difference of methods in accomplishing the same result.

It is true, the prices assigned by the assize of Richard were meant as a standard for the accompts of sheriffs and escheators and as considerable profits were allowed to these ministers, we may naturally suppose that the common value of cattle was somewhat higher: yet still, so great a difference between the prices of corn and cattle as that of four to one, compared to the present rates, affords important reflections concerning the very different state of industry and tillage in the two periods.

Should the Duke and Duchess have other intentions, but be ready to collaborate in the establishment of a good relationship between Germany and England, Germany is likewise prepared to co-operate with the Duke and to arrange the future of the Ducal couple in accordance with their wishes.

The difference between judicial enforcement and nonenforcement of the restrictive covenants is the difference to petitioners between being denied rights of property available to other members of the community and being accorded full enjoyment of those rights on an equal footing.

Most important, it required that a new equilibrium be established between the processes of capitalist accumulation and the structures of power.

Total longitude between Gibraltar and the Sea of Azov is accurate to half a degree, while across the map as a whole average errors of longitude are less than a degree.

But he is used to the forests and irregular hills north of Cyad itself-not the scattered farms and the grasslands of the east that are north of the Accursed Forest and the Great Canal that links the fertile lands between the rivers with Fyrad.

After his return to his ranch, a correspondence had been maintained between the two, Annixter taking the precaution to typewrite his letters, and never affixing his signature, in an excess of prudence.

If I had elsewhere witnessed the painful contrast between affluence and want, here I had found the true union of riches and poverty.

Yet you, a wretched sleeper, with only a thin plank of wood between you and the affray, hear nothing, absolutely nothing.

An affray was actually in progress between the Italian Ripaldi and the incriminated man Quadling, but the witness arrived as the last fatal blow was struck by the latter.

Before a knight could indulge in mortal affray he was obliged to obtain the consent of his sovereign, provided that peace ruled between his country and that of his antagonist, as was the case between Spain and Burgundy.

Culture had been on the far side of the galaxy from the Affront home planet, and contacts between the Culture and the Affront had been unusually sparse for a long time for a variety of frankly banal reasons.

The expression on his face was indescribable, wandering between amusement and affrontery, with a touch each of anger and exasperation.