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be

English

  1. 🔊 a light strong brittle grey toxic bivalent metallic element
  2. 🔊 spend or use time
    “I may be an hour”
  3. 🔊 work in a specific place, with a specific subject, or in a specific function
    “He is a herpetologist”
  4. 🔊 have the quality of being
    “John is rich”
  5. 🔊 have life, be alive
    “Our great leader is no more”
  6. 🔊 be identical to
    “The president of the company is John Smith”
  7. 🔊 occupy a certain position or area
    “Where is my umbrella?”
  8. 🔊 to remain unmolested, undisturbed, or uninterrupted -- used only in infinitive form
    “let her be”
  9. 🔊 happen, occur, take place
    “I lost my wallet; this was during the visit to my parents' house”
  10. 🔊 have an existence, be extant
    “Is there a God?”
  11. 🔊 be identical or equivalent to
    “One dollar equals 1,000 rubles these days!”
  12. 🔊 represent, as of a character on stage
    “Derek Jacobi was Hamlet”
  13. 🔊 be priced at
    “These shoes cost $100”
  14. 🔊 form or compose
    “This money is my only income”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 hacer to be
  2. 🔊 andar to be, to feel
  3. 🔊 estar to be, stay (denotes a copula, in a transient fashion)

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