BE
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BE or be may refer to:
Linguistics
- To be, the English copular verb
- Be (Cyrillic), a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet
- be (interjection), in several languages
- Be language or Ong Be, a language of northern Hainan province, China
- Black English, or African-American Vernacular English, an English dialect
Music
Albums
- Be (Beady Eye album), 2013
- Be (Casiopea album), 1998
- Be (Common album), 2005
- BE (Pain of Salvation album), 2004
- BE (Original Stage Production), a 2005 live album by Pain of Salvation
- Be (BTS album), 2020
Songs
- "Be" (Neil Diamond song), a 1973 single
- "Be", a song by Jessica Simpson from In This Skin
- "Be", a song by Slade from Whatever Happened to Slade
Organisations
- Be Inc., a former US software company (1990-2001) and developer of the Be Operating System (BeOS)
- Be Unlimited, a former UK Internet service provider (2003-2014)
- Badminton Europe, the governing body of badminton in Europe
- British Eventing, the British governing body for the equestrian sport of eventing
- BearingPoint (former stock ticker symbol BE)
- Bloco de Esquerda or Left Bloc, a Portuguese political party
- Bob Evans Restaurants, an American restaurant chain
Places
- Bé, a neighborhood in Togo
- Belgium (ISO 3166-1 and FIPS 10-4 country code: BE)
- Berlin, a state of Germany
- Canton of Bern, a canton of Switzerland
Science and technology
- Base excess (BE), excess or deficit in the amount of base in the blood
- Beryllium (Be), a chemical element
Computing
- .be, the country code top-level domain for Belgium
- Backup Exec, backup and recovery software from Veritas Software
- Big-endian, a system that stores the most significant byte of a word at the smallest memory address
- BeOS, an operating system by Be
Physics
- Baumé scale (°Bé), a density scale
- Be star, in astronomy, a B-type star
- Bejan number (Be), in thermodynamics and fluid mechanics
Transportation
- Baltimore and Eastern Railroad Company (B&E), US
- Beriev (design office prefix: Be), a Russian aircraft manufacturer
- Flybe (IATA airline code BE), based in Exeter, England
- British European Airways (IATA airline code BE until 1974)
Other uses
- Bachelor of Engineering, an academic degree
- Bahá'í Era, in timekeeping
- Buddhist Era, in timekeeping
See also
- B (disambiguation)
- Bay (disambiguation)
- BBE (disambiguation)
- Bebe (disambiguation)
- Bee (disambiguation)
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