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BE or be may refer to:
Linguistics
[edit]- Be (Cyrillic), a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet
- be (interjection), in several languages
- Be languages or Ong Be, a pair of languages of northern Hainan province, China
- Belarusian language, ISO 639-1 code: be
- Black English, or African-American Vernacular English, an English dialect
- British English, abbr. BE, usually used in contrast to AE (American English)
- To be, the English copular verb
Music
[edit]Albums
[edit]- 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
[edit]- "Be" (Neil Diamond song), a 1973 single
- "Be", a song by Jessica Simpson from In This Skin
- "Be", a song by Lenny Kravitz from Let Love Rule
- "Be", a song by Slade from Whatever Happened to Slade
Organisations
[edit]- 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
[edit]- Bè, a neighborhood in Togo
- Belgium (ISO 3166-1 and FIPS 10-4 country code: BE)
- Berlin, a state of Germany
- Bermuda (World Meteorological Organization territory code: BE)
- Canton of Bern, a canton of Switzerland
Science and technology
[edit]- Base excess (BE), excess or deficit in the amount of base in the blood
- Beryllium, symbol Be, a chemical element
Computing
[edit]- .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
[edit]- Baumé scale (°Bé), a density scale
- Be star, in astronomy, a B-type star
- Bejan number (Be), in thermodynamics and fluid mechanics
Transportation
[edit]- BE Be Electric, Electric Car Manufacturing Company
- Baltimore and Eastern Railroad Company (B&E), US
- Beriev (design office prefix: Be), a Russian aircraft manufacturer
- Blue Engines (prefix: BE), the rocket engines from Blue Origin
- BE, then IATA code of Flybe (2022–2023), former English airline
- BE, then IATA code of Flybe (1979–2020), former English airline
- BE, then IATA code of British European Airways (1946–1974), former British airline
Other uses
[edit]- Bé (footballer), Portuguese footballer
- Bachelor of Engineering, an academic degree
- Bahá'í Era, in timekeeping
- Buddhist Era, in timekeeping