Between

Definition

between /bÇ'twi:/ prep ၁။ (က) (ႏွစ္ခု၊ ႏွစ္ေယာက္ စသည္) အၾကား၌။ Q comes between P and R in the English alphabet. ❍ Peter sat between Mary and Jane. ❍ Switzerland lies between France, Germany, Austria and Italy. ❍ The spoon fell between the cooker and the cupboard. ❍ I lost my keys somewhere between the car and the house. ❍ ( fig ) My job is somewhere between a typist and a personal assistant. (ခ) (အခ်ိန္ကာလ) အတြင္း၌၊ အၾကား၌။ It's cheaper between 6 pm and 8 am. ❍ I'm usually free between Tuesday and Thursday. ❍ Children must attend school between 5 and 16. ❍ Many changes took place between the two world wars. ၂။ (ပမာဏ၊ အေလးခ်ိန္၊ ခရီးတာစသည္ တစ္ခုႏွင့္တစ္ခု) အတြင္း ၌၊ အၾကား၌။ cost between one and two pounds ❍ weigh between nine and ten kilos ❍ I'd estimate that London is between fifty and sixty miles from Oxford. ❍ The temperature remained between 25½ C and 30½ C all week. ၃။ (ႏွစ္ေနရာ) အၾကား၌။ build a wall between my garden and my neighbour's ❍ draw a line between sections A and B ❍ the border between Sweden and Norway. ၄။ (ေနရာ) … မွ … သို႔။ fly between Rome and Paris twice daily ❍ sail between Dover and Calais ❍ a good road between Tokyo and Kyoto. ၅။ (တစ္ခုႏွင့္ တစ္ခု၊ တစ္ဦးႏွင့္တစ္ဦး စသည္) ၾကား။ a clear difference/distinction/contrast between two things ❍ an obvious link between unemployment and the crime rate ❍ the bond between a boy and his dog ❍ They have settled the dispute between them. ❍ the affection/friendship/love between people. ၆။ (က) ႏွစ္ဦးတည္း။ ႏွစ္ဦးသား။ We drank a bottle of wine between us. ❍ This is just between you and me/between ourselves (ie It is a secret). ❍ They carried only one rucksack between them. ❍ negotiations between management and unions. (ခ) မွ်၍။ ေပါင္း၍။ They wrote the book between them. ❍ Between them they raised £500. ❍ We can afford to buy a house between us. ❍ AMONG adv (also in between ) (က) (ႏွစ္ခု၊ ႏွစ္ေယာက္ စသည္) အၾကား။ You'd have a good view of the sea from here except for the hotels in between. (ခ) (ျဖစ္ရပ္ကာလႏွစ္ခု) အၾကား။ We have two lessons this morning, but there's some free time in between.

Examples

1. Hold the needle between your finger and thumb.
2. Gatwick is about halfway between London and Brighton.
3. [in between] : Charlotte sat in between her two sons at the reception.
4. Put the two smaller vases on the ends and the big one in between.
5. Trains running between Liverpool and Manchester were delayed.
6. The office will be closed between Christmas and New Year.
7. The show opens next Monday. Between now and then we’ll be rehearsing every day.
8. [in between] : Try to avoid snacks in between meals.
9. I have two classes this morning
10. with a short break in between.
11. Choose a number between 1 and 10.
12. Children between the ages of 4 and 13
13. [in between] : Fifteen is too few
14. but 30 is probably too many – somewhere in between would be about right.
15. A conversation between the Prime Minister and the President
16. The match between England and Germany will be worth watching.
17. There has been a steady improvement in relations between China and the rest of the world.
18. Scientists believe there is a link between diet and certain types of cancer.
19. Does a five-year-old know the difference between right and wrong?
20. There are obvious parallels between computer systems and the working of the human brain.
21. The gap between rich and poor
22. We agreed to split the profits between us on a fifty-fifty basis.
23. The head teacher has to divide up her time between administration and classroom teaching.
24. Between us
25. we managed to collect over £2
26. 000.
27. They’re both beautiful designs – it’s hard to choose between them.
28. Third year students have a choice between philosophy
29. sociology
30. and economics.