in-between

[in-bi-tween]

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noun

a person or thing that is between two extremes, two contrasting conditions, etc..
yeses, noes, and in-betweens; a tournament for professional, amateur, and in-between.
a person who handles the intermediary steps, as in a manufacturing or sales process.

adjective

being between one thing, condition, etc., and another.
a coat for in-between weather.

in-between

adjective

intermediate
he's at the in-between stage, neither a child nor an adult

noun

an intermediate person or thing

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Other Word Forms

in-betweenness noun

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Word History and Origins

Origin of in-between¹

First recorded in 1805–15

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Idioms and Phrases

In an intermediate situation, as in My roommates disagreed and I was caught in between. [Late 1500s]

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Example Sentences

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Before then, in Rome these in-between days have taken on a flavour of their own.

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I always come up with the first and the last scene in a movie but not what's in-between.

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In the scene, Cooper — trapped in an in-between space known as the Black Lodge for 25 years — talks to a long dead Palmer, questioning if it's really her.

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"Although I loved the matches, it was more about the moments in-between and the characters" she says.

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It's true that his film work offers up both sides - the joy and the pain of life, the extremes of being human and everything in-between.

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inbeing in-betweener

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