Definition of be. in English English dictionary
- Buddhist Era
- Berlin, a federal state of Germany
- Black English
- Bengkulu, a province of Indonesia
- Bachelor of Engineering
- used to indicate passage of time since the occurrence of an event
It had been six days since his departure, when I received a letter from him.
- Used to form the continuous forms of various tenses
We liked to chat while we were eating.
- Used to indicate that the subject plays the role of the predicate nominal
François Mitterrand was president of France from 1981 to 1995.
- Used to form the perfect aspect with certain intransitive verbs. Often still used for to go
He is gone.
- Used to form the passive voice
The dog was drowned by the boy.
- Used to indicate that the values on either side of an equation are the same
3 times 5 is fifteen.
- Used to indicate time of day, day of the week, or date
Today is the second, so I guess next Tuesday must be the tenth.
- elliptical form of "be here", "go to and return from" or similar
I have been to Spain many times.
- Used to indicate height
He was five-eight.
- Used to indicate age
He looks twelve, but is actually thirteen, and will turn fourteen next week.
- To exist
To be or not to be, that is the question.
- Used to indicate temperature
It is in the eighties outside, and next week it is expected to be in the nineties! (Fahrenheit degrees).
- Used to indicate weather, air quality, or the like
Why is it so dark in here?.
- {i} lightweight metallic chemical element commonly used in alloys
- {f} exist; occur, happen; occupy a position or place
- Belgium (in Internet addresses). The symbol for the element beryllium
- v be am 1 sg pres es 3 sg pres er pl pres war, was, wase 1/3 sg pret bese 3 sg fut [OE bëon]
- art
- Used to indicate that the subject plays the role of the object
- represent, as of a character on stage; "Derek Jacobi was Hamlet"
- be priced at; "These shoes cost $100"
- Used to connect a noun to an adjective that describes it
- British Embassy
- spend or use time; "I may be an hour"
- To occupy a place
- A prefix, originally the same word as by; To intensify the meaning; as, bespatter, bestir
- To exist actually, or in the world of fact; to have existence
- To occur, to take place
- v [{showing a state; I am; you are; he is; she is; we are; you are; they are} (The sky is blue)] ada [(Langitnya biru )]
- Used to form future tenses, especially the future subjunctive
- have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun); "John is rich"; "This is not a good answer"
- The ISO 639 alpha-2 language code for Belarusian
- "The toolshed is in the back"; "What is behind this behavior?"
- my
- occupy a certain position or area; be somewhere; "Where is my umbrella?" "The toolshed is in the back"; "What is behind this behavior?"
- The two-character ISO 3166 country code for BELGIUM
- be identical or equivalent to; "One dollar equals 1,000 rubles these days!"
- To take place; to happen; as, the meeting was on Thursday
- Book Equity: Book equity is constructed from Compustat data or collected from the Moody's Industrial, Financial, and Utilities manuals BE is the book value of stockholders' equity, plus balance sheet deferred taxes and investment tax credit (if available), minus the book value of preferred stock Depending on availability, we use the redemption, liquidation, or par value (in that order) to estimate the book value of preferred stock Stockholders' equity is the value reported by Moody's or Compustat, if it is available If not, stockholders' equity is measured as the book value of common equity plus the par value of preferred stock, or the book value of assets minus total liabilities (in that order)
- Best Effort
- Abbreviation for Base Embossed Used to denote that there is embossing on the base of the insulator See also: Base
- Used to indicate that the subject and object are the same
- work in a specific place, with a specific subject, or in a specific function; "He is a herpetologist"; "She is our resident philosopher"
- a light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element
- To exist in a certain manner or relation, whether as a reality or as a product of thought; to exist as the subject of a certain predicate, that is, as having a certain attribute, or as belonging to a certain sort, or as identical with what is specified, a word or words for the predicate being annexed; as, to be happy; to be here; to be large, or strong; to be an animal; to be a hero; to be a nonentity; three and two are five; annihilation is the cessation of existence; that is the man
- The country code for Belgium
- have life, be alive; "Our great leader is no more"; "My grandfather lived until the end of war"
- form or compose; "This money is my only income"; "The stone wall was the backdrop for the performance"; "These constitute my entire belonging"; "The children made up the chorus"; "This sum represents my entire income for a year"; "These few men comprise his entire army"
- To signify; to represent or symbolize; to answer to
- The maximum amount of uncommitted data (in bits) in excess of Bc that a frame relay network can attempt to deliver during a time interval Tc This data (Be) generally is delivered with a lower probability than Bc The network treats Be data as discard eligible See also Committed Burst Size (Bc)
- to have actuality LO - expresses surprise TI - a tone of the scale
- occupy a certain position or area; be somewhere; "Where is my umbrella?"
- have an existence, be extant; "Is there a God?"
- Belgium
- Used to indicate that the subject has the qualities described by a noun or noun phrase
- Chemical symbol for Beryllium
- happen, occur, take place; "I lost my wallet; this was during the visit to my parents' house"; "There were two hundred people at his funeral"; "There was a lot of noise in the kitchen
- be identical to; be someone or something; "The president of the company is John Smith"; "This is my house"
- base excess, the difference between the actual blood buffer concentration and the normal blood buffer concentration
- Belgium, with Luxembourg
- spend or use time; "I may be an hour" work in a specific place, with a specific subject, or in a specific function; "He is a herpetologist"; "She is our resident philosopher" have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun); "John is rich"; "This is not a good answer" have life, be alive; "Our great leader is no more"; "My grandfather lived until the end of war" be identical to; be someone or something; "The president of the company is John Smith"; "This is my house" occupy a certain position or area; be somewhere; "Where is my umbrella?" "The toolshed is in the back"; "What is behind this behavior?" to remain unmolested, undisturbed, or uninterrupted -- used only in infinitive form; "let her be" happen, occur, take place; "I lost my wallet; this was during the visit to my parents' house"; "There were two hundred people at his funeral"; "There was a lot of noise in the kitchen
- Excess Burst Rate
- by means of
- v to live; to happen; to exist
- Belgium or base ejecting