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BETWEE'N, prep.

1. In the intermediate space, without regard to distance; as, New York is between Boston and Philadelphia; the Delaware river runs between Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

2. From one another; passing from one to another, noting exchange of actions or intercourse; as, things go well between the parties.

3. Belonging to two or more, in common or partnership; as, two friends have but one soul between them; twenty proprietors own a tract of land between them. We observe that between is not restricted to two.

4. Having mutual relation to two or more; as, discords exist between the families.

5. Noting difference, or discrimination of one from another; as, to distinguish between right and wrong.



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BETWEE'N, prep.

1. In the intermediate space, without regard to distance; as, New York is between Boston and Philadelphia; the Delaware river runs between Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

2. From one another; passing from one to another, noting exchange of actions or intercourse; as, things go well between the parties.

3. Belonging to two or more, in common or partnership; as, two friends have but one soul between them; twenty proprietors own a tract of land between them. We observe that between is not restricted to two.

4. Having mutual relation to two or more; as, discords exist between the families.

5. Noting difference, or discrimination of one from another; as, to distinguish between right and wrong.

BE-TWEEN, prep. [Sax. betweonan, betwynan; of be and twain, two, Sax. tweg, twegen. The Saxons used, in the same sense, betuh, and betweoh, betwo, See Twain, Twin.]

  1. In the intermediate space, without regard to distance; as, New York is between Boston and Philadelphia; the Delaware river runs between Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
  2. From one to another; passing from one to another, noting exchange of actions or intercourse; as, things go well between the parties.
  3. Belonging to two or more, in common, or partnership; as, two friends have but one soul between them; twenty proprietors own a tract of land between them. We observe that between is not restricted to two.
  4. Having mutual relation to two or more; as, discords exist between the families.
  5. Noting difference, or discrimination of one from another; as, to distinguish between right and wrong.

Be*tween"
  1. In the space which separates; betwixt; as, New York is between Boston and Philadelphia.
  2. Intermediate time or space; interval.

    [Poetic *** R.] Shak.
  3. 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.

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

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

  5. 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.

  6. 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.
  7. 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. 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.

    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.

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Between

BETWEE'N, preposition

1. In the intermediate space, without regard to distance; as, New York is between Boston and Philadelphia; the Delaware river runs between Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

2. From one another; passing from one to another, noting exchange of actions or intercourse; as, things go well between the parties.

3. Belonging to two or more, in common or partnership; as, two friends have but one soul between them; twenty proprietors own a tract of land between them. We observe that between is not restricted to two.

4. Having mutual relation to two or more; as, discords exist between the families.

5. Noting difference, or discrimination of one from another; as, to distinguish between right and wrong.

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importance

IMPORT'ANCE, n.

1. Weight; consequence; a bearing on some interest; that quality of any thing by which it may affect a measure, interest or result. The education of youth is of great importance to a free government. A religious education is of infinite importance to every human being.

2. Weight or consequence in the scale of being.

Thy own importance know.

Nor bound thy narrow views to things below.

3. Weight or consequence in self-estimation.

He believes himself a man of importance.

4. Thing implied; matter; subject; importunity. [In these senses, obsolete.]

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