"между тем" meaning in Russian

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "ме́жду те́м",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "méždu tém",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ме́жду те́м"
      },
      "expansion": "ме́жду те́м • (méždu tém)",
      "name": "ru-adv"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Russian",
  "lang_code": "ru",
  "pos": "adv",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Russian entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "Meanwhile Yergunov had drunk five or six glasses of vodka; his heart felt lighter, and he longed to tell some extraordinary, wonderful story too, and to show that he, too, was a bold fellow and not afraid of anything.",
          "ref": "1890, Антон Чехов [Anton Chekhov], Воры; English translation from Constance Garnett, transl., The Horse-Stealers, 1921:",
          "roman": "Meždu tem félʹdšer výpil rjúmok pjatʹ íli šestʹ; na dušé u nevó posvetlélo i zaxotélosʹ tóže rasskazátʹ štó-nibudʹ neobyknovénnoje, čudésnoje, i pokazátʹ, što on tóže molodéc i ničevó ne boítsja.",
          "text": "Между тем фе́льдшер вы́пил рю́мок пять и́ли шесть; на душе́ у него́ посветле́ло и захоте́лось то́же рассказа́ть что́-нибудь необыкнове́нное, чуде́сное, и показа́ть, что он то́же молоде́ц и ничего́ не бои́тся.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "in the meantime, meanwhile"
      ],
      "id": "en-между_тем-ru-adv-TEIyNKgS",
      "links": [
        [
          "meantime",
          "meantime"
        ],
        [
          "meanwhile",
          "meanwhile"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[mʲɪʐdʊ‿ˈtʲem]"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˌmʲeʐdʊ ˈtʲem]"
    }
  ],
  "word": "между тем"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "ме́жду те́м",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "méždu tém",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ме́жду те́м"
      },
      "expansion": "ме́жду те́м • (méždu tém)",
      "name": "ru-adv"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Russian",
  "lang_code": "ru",
  "pos": "adv",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Russian adverbs",
        "Russian entries with incorrect language header",
        "Russian lemmas",
        "Russian multiword terms",
        "Russian terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "Russian terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "Meanwhile Yergunov had drunk five or six glasses of vodka; his heart felt lighter, and he longed to tell some extraordinary, wonderful story too, and to show that he, too, was a bold fellow and not afraid of anything.",
          "ref": "1890, Антон Чехов [Anton Chekhov], Воры; English translation from Constance Garnett, transl., The Horse-Stealers, 1921:",
          "roman": "Meždu tem félʹdšer výpil rjúmok pjatʹ íli šestʹ; na dušé u nevó posvetlélo i zaxotélosʹ tóže rasskazátʹ štó-nibudʹ neobyknovénnoje, čudésnoje, i pokazátʹ, što on tóže molodéc i ničevó ne boítsja.",
          "text": "Между тем фе́льдшер вы́пил рю́мок пять и́ли шесть; на душе́ у него́ посветле́ло и захоте́лось то́же рассказа́ть что́-нибудь необыкнове́нное, чуде́сное, и показа́ть, что он то́же молоде́ц и ничего́ не бои́тся.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "in the meantime, meanwhile"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "meantime",
          "meantime"
        ],
        [
          "meanwhile",
          "meanwhile"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[mʲɪʐdʊ‿ˈtʲem]"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˌmʲeʐdʊ ˈtʲem]"
    }
  ],
  "word": "между тем"
}