between

between, among are comparable when they take as object two or more persons or things and indicate their relation (as in position, in a distribution, or in participation).

Between in its basic sense applies to only two objects

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between Scylla and Charybdis

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between two fires

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When this word is used of more than two objects, it brings them severally and individually into the relation expressed

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a treaty between three powers

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the three survivors had but one pair of shoes between them

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I hope that between public business, improving studies, and domestic pleasures, neither melancholy nor caprice will find any place for entrance— Johnson

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Among always implies more than two objects which it brings less definitely into the relation expressed

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among so many candidates one must find a good one

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among the survivors were two boys

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five barley loaves, and two small fishes: but what are they among so many?— Jn 6:9

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