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单词 in-between
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Definition of in-between in English:

in-between

adjectiveɪnbɪˈtwiːnˌɪnbəˈˌtwin
informal
  • Situated somewhere between two extremes or categories; intermediate.

    I am not unconscious, but in some in-between state
    Example sentencesExamples
    • I think most of my problem is that I want to skip these in-between chapters and get to the stuff that I'm most looking forward to writing!
    • I have an odd in-between situation where I work as an AmeriCorps volunteer.
    • The stories that emerge are the different trains of thought your mind goes through as you're in that slightly in-between state of being awake and trying to get to sleep.
    • It is this in-between place of carelessness and thoughtlessness that disturbs.
    • It's this in-between state of being neither child nor adolescent, or trying to be both at the same time.
    • This paper argues for the prevalence of in-between states of believing and asserts the need for an account of belief that allows us intelligibly to talk about in-between believing.
    • You could see what he meant: Flintoff's chin and cheeks were stuck in that in-between stage that might be a look, but could equally well be neglect.
    • If I refuse to choose sides, am I just marking time in some make-believe in-between space?
    • During all this while, he continued to hunt and trap in-between jobs.
    • In a quantum system, two opposite magnetic spins can be superposed upon each other, resulting in a third, in-between state.
    Synonyms
    average, standard, normal, middle-of-the-road, medium
nounɪnbɪˈtwiːnˌɪnbəˈˌtwin
informal
  • An intermediate thing.

    successes, failures and in-betweens
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Lots of things can happen in the in-between that may be surprising.
    • Iwan referred to the deity as beyond male or female, but understood the drives of both, as well as any conceivable in-betweens or genderless beings.
    • Effectively, what both novels are really about is the cultural threat of miscegenation as the in-between.
    • Neither a hotel nor private villa, it's a glorious in-between.
    • Life is not about endings, but middles, the in-between.
    • Unbending he deflects rage, loves her extremes, highs, lows, and in-betweens.
    • With muscles, the real stress of a lift is the in-between, basically about halfway up during a biceps movement.
    • Bad runs have been really bad runs and good ones have been really good - no in-betweens.
    • The more Zeigler immersed himself in the sources, the more he came to realise that everything was true - the extremes and all the in-betweens.
    • The point was not to erect binaries or hierarchies but to appreciate difference, to focus on multiplicities and in-betweens.
    • I like an in-between that is flavorful, but not quite as dark as Guinness.
    • You are for a yes vote or you are for a no, and there cannot be a grey area nor an in-between.
    • It's a tough fusion of comedy's casual vibe and the more traditional elements of theatre - but Muse says that, like Bitty, she's at her best in those awkward in-betweens.
    • He ranged from sharp and witty to serious and in control, plus all the in-betweens.
    • It works because it allows for all the ups, downs, and in-betweens that you're going to have in a season.
    • I love his wrongs, his rights, and his in-betweens.
    • From here, players can use the analog stick to aim the weapon low, middle, or high - but again, no in-betweens, which is disappointing.
    • Then came the in-betweens, made up of drivers over 25, whose hotly-contested race at times looked more like a demolition derby.
    • But it has been a campaign of highs, lows and in-betweens - often in the course of games, never mind across them - and opening up a ten-point gap in the SPL and reaching the CIS Cup final means there has been plenty to be pleased about.
    • It is the in-between which legitimates the one and the other, both of which are irreversibly atheological.

Derivatives

  • in-betweener

  • noun
    informal
    • Those in-betweeners are what outfielders face all the time.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Scheeringa is particularly concerned about the in-betweeners in the 7-to 11-year-old age group, whose ability to convey PTSD symptoms may not be much more developed than the youngest children.
      • But we don't as a whole quite know what to do with those inconvenient, rebellious in-betweeners known as teenagers.
      • A clean-up artist is one who applies the final look to the film, and an in-betweener is an artist who is given the start and the ending of a movement and is tasked to draw the sequence in between.
      • The transitional generations - the in-betweeners with five toes in the old world, five in the new - never see things clearly.
 
 

Definition of in-between in US English:

in-between

adjectiveˌɪnbəˈˌtwinˌinbəˈˌtwēn
informal
  • Situated somewhere between two extremes or recognized categories; intermediate.

    I am not unconscious, but in some in-between state
    Example sentencesExamples
    • You could see what he meant: Flintoff's chin and cheeks were stuck in that in-between stage that might be a look, but could equally well be neglect.
    • The stories that emerge are the different trains of thought your mind goes through as you're in that slightly in-between state of being awake and trying to get to sleep.
    • I have an odd in-between situation where I work as an AmeriCorps volunteer.
    • It is this in-between place of carelessness and thoughtlessness that disturbs.
    • I think most of my problem is that I want to skip these in-between chapters and get to the stuff that I'm most looking forward to writing!
    • If I refuse to choose sides, am I just marking time in some make-believe in-between space?
    • During all this while, he continued to hunt and trap in-between jobs.
    • It's this in-between state of being neither child nor adolescent, or trying to be both at the same time.
    • In a quantum system, two opposite magnetic spins can be superposed upon each other, resulting in a third, in-between state.
    • This paper argues for the prevalence of in-between states of believing and asserts the need for an account of belief that allows us intelligibly to talk about in-between believing.
    Synonyms
    average, standard, normal, middle-of-the-road, medium
nounˌɪnbəˈˌtwinˌinbəˈˌtwēn
informal
  • An intermediate thing.

    successes, failures and in-betweens
    Example sentencesExamples
    • With muscles, the real stress of a lift is the in-between, basically about halfway up during a biceps movement.
    • But it has been a campaign of highs, lows and in-betweens - often in the course of games, never mind across them - and opening up a ten-point gap in the SPL and reaching the CIS Cup final means there has been plenty to be pleased about.
    • It is the in-between which legitimates the one and the other, both of which are irreversibly atheological.
    • Then came the in-betweens, made up of drivers over 25, whose hotly-contested race at times looked more like a demolition derby.
    • He ranged from sharp and witty to serious and in control, plus all the in-betweens.
    • You are for a yes vote or you are for a no, and there cannot be a grey area nor an in-between.
    • From here, players can use the analog stick to aim the weapon low, middle, or high - but again, no in-betweens, which is disappointing.
    • Lots of things can happen in the in-between that may be surprising.
    • I love his wrongs, his rights, and his in-betweens.
    • The more Zeigler immersed himself in the sources, the more he came to realise that everything was true - the extremes and all the in-betweens.
    • Bad runs have been really bad runs and good ones have been really good - no in-betweens.
    • Unbending he deflects rage, loves her extremes, highs, lows, and in-betweens.
    • Effectively, what both novels are really about is the cultural threat of miscegenation as the in-between.
    • It works because it allows for all the ups, downs, and in-betweens that you're going to have in a season.
    • Iwan referred to the deity as beyond male or female, but understood the drives of both, as well as any conceivable in-betweens or genderless beings.
    • The point was not to erect binaries or hierarchies but to appreciate difference, to focus on multiplicities and in-betweens.
    • It's a tough fusion of comedy's casual vibe and the more traditional elements of theatre - but Muse says that, like Bitty, she's at her best in those awkward in-betweens.
    • Life is not about endings, but middles, the in-between.
    • I like an in-between that is flavorful, but not quite as dark as Guinness.
    • Neither a hotel nor private villa, it's a glorious in-between.
 
 
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