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Verb (auxiliary)
/bē/,
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is, 3rd person singular present; was, past tense; bing, present participle; bed, past tense; being, present participle; bes, 3rd person singular present; am, 3rd person singular present; were, past tense; are, 3rd person singular present; been, past participle;
  1. Used with a present participle to form continuous tenses
    • - they are coming
    • - he had been reading
    • - she will be waiting
  2. Used with a past participle to form the passive mood
    • - it was done
    • - it is said
    • - his book will be published
  3. Used to indicate something due to happen
    • - construction is to begin next summer
    • - I was to meet him at 6:30
  4. Used to express obligation or necessity
    • - you are to follow these orders
    • - they said I was to remain on board
  5. Used to express possibility
    • - these snakes are to be found in North America
    • - she was nowhere to be seen
  6. Used to hypothesize about something that might happen
    • - if I were to lose
    • - if I was to tell you, you'd think I was crazy
    • - were she to cure me, what could I offer her?
  7. Used with the past participle of intransitive verbs to form perfect tenses
    • - I am returned
    • - all humanity is fallen
Verb
  1. Exist
    • - there are no easy answers
    • - there once was a man
    • - there must be something wrong
    • - I think, therefore I am
  2. Be present
    • - there is a boy sitting on the step
    • - there were no curtains around the showers
    • - Are there any castles in this area?
  3. Occur; take place
    • - the exhibition will be in November
    • - the opening event is on October 16
    • - that was before the war
  4. Occupy a position in space
    • - the Salvation Army store was on his left
    • - she was not at the window
  5. Stay in the same place or condition
    • - she was here until about ten-thirty
    • - he's a tough customer—let him be
  6. Attend
    • - the days when she was in school
  7. Come; go; visit
    • - he's from Missouri
    • - I have just been to Thailand
    • - the doctor's been here twice today
  8. Having the state, quality, identity, nature, role, etc., specified
    • - Amy was 91
    • - the floor was uneven
    • - I want to be a teacher
    • - father was not well
    • - his hair's brown
    • - it will be Christmas soon
    • - “Be careful,” Mr. Carter said
  9. Cost
    • - the tickets were $25
  10. Amount to
    • - one and one is two
    • - two sixes are twelve
  11. Represent
    • - let A be a square matrix of order n
  12. Signify
    • - we were everything to each other
  13. Consist of; constitute
    • - the monastery was several three-story buildings
  14. Say
    • - when I got there, they were like “What are you doing here?”
  1. beryllium: a light strong brittle grey toxic bivalent metallic element
  2. have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun); "John is rich"; "This is not a good answer"
  3. be identical to; be someone or something; "The president of the company is John Smith"; "This is my house"
  4. occupy a certain position or area; be somewhere; "Where is my umbrella?" "The toolshed is in the back"; "What is behind this behavior?"
  5. exist: have an existence, be extant; "Is there a God?"
  6. 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"
  7. .be is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Belgium. The domain became active in 1989 and was administrated by Pierre Verbaeten of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. In 2000, the control of the TLD was transferred to DNS Belgium. ...
  8. Mrs (UK) or Mrs. (USA, Canada) is an English honorific used for women, usually for those who are married and who do not instead use another title, such as “Dr”, “Lady” or “Dame”. In most Commonwealth countries, a full stop (period) is not used with the title. ...
  9. ٻ is an additional letter of the Arabic alphabet, derived from (ب) with an additional dot. It is not used in Arabic itself, but is used to represent a voiced bilabial implosive when writing Hausa and Sindhi in the Arabic script. ...
  10. Be is the twenty-fourth studio album released by the jazz fusion group Casiopea in 1998.
  11. Be is the sixth studio album by American rapper Common, released May 24, 2005 on GOOD Music and Geffen Records. ...
  12. Be (‹Б, б›) is the second letter in the Cyrillic alphabet. It represents , a voiced bilabial plosive similar to the English pronunciation of ‹b›. In Russian and Bulgarian, ‹б› may also represent a voiceless word-finally or before a voiceless consonant, and before a palatalizing vowel.
  13. To exist; to have real existence; With there as dummy subject: to exist; To occupy a place; To occur, to take place; elliptical form of "be here", "go to and return from" or similar; Used to indicate that the subject and object are the same; Used to indicate that the values on either side ...
  14. Symbol for beryllium
  15. The maximum amount of uncommitted data (in bits) in excess of Bc that a Frame Relay network can try to deliver during time interval Tc. The network treats Be data as discard-eligible.
  16. Trans-radial.  Relating to prostheses or levels of amputation across the long axis of the radius/ulna.
  17. (on all sides, overly) bedeck, beset, besmear, besprinkle
  18. Belgium or base ejecting
  19. beon, wesan (irregular)
  20. Best Estimate - Delivery of general or specific services by the hour for an estimated number of hours.
  21. Benefit Eligible — a regular employee expected to work at least 75 percent FTE with an indicated appointment duration of at least nine months entitled to benefits or rights of university employment policies.
  22. A horizon with characteristics of both an overlying E horizon and an underlying B horizon, but which is more like the B than the E.
  23. refers to identifiers that are bilingual, English first
  24. (phonetic spelling of the letter b), ve (phonetic spelling of the letter v)
  25. Back end, the networking part of Mozilla.