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NOUN | 1 | Be, beryllium, glucinium, atomic number 4 | A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element |
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VERB | 1 | be | Have the quality of being |
2 | be | Be identical to | |
3 | be | Occupy a certain position or area | |
4 | be, exist | Have an existence, be extant | |
5 | be | Happen, occur, take place | |
6 | be, equal | Be identical or equivalent to | |
7 | be, constitute, represent, make up, comprise | Form or compose | |
8 | be, follow | Work in a specific place, with a specific subject, or in a specific function | |
9 | be, embody, personify | Represent, as of a character on stage | |
10 | be | Spend or use time | |
11 | be, live | Have life, be alive | |
12 | be | To remain unmolested, undisturbed, or uninterrupted -- used only in infinitive form | |
13 | be, cost | Be priced at |
Sounds | biy; biy' |
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Rhymes | ab / Ab / AB, abbe, abbey, and 55 more rhymes in biy at the HyperDic website... |
Meaning | A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element. |
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Synonyms | beryllium, glucinium, atomic number 4 |
Broader | metallic element, metal |
Substance of | beryl; chrysoberyl; gadolinite, ytterbite |
Meaning | Have the quality of being. (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun). |
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Pattern | Something is ----ing PP; Something ----s Adjective/Noun; Somebody ----s Adjective; Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody; Somebody ----s PP |
Model | John will be angry |
Narrower | look; suffer, hurt; be well; suffer; feel; stay, remain, rest; continue; sparkle, scintillate, coruscate; confuse, throw, fox, befuddle, fuddle, bedevil, confound, discombobulate; rank; point; want, need, require; compact, pack; rest; cut; seethe, boil; mope, moon around, moon about; look, appear, seem; appear, seem; owe; belong; cover; represent; account; cut across; begin, start; begin; stand; specify, define, delineate, delimit, delimitate; go; make sense, add up; consist, comprise; prove, turn out, turn up; account for; remain; stand by, stick by, stick, adhere; loiter, lounge, footle, lollygag, loaf, lallygag, hang around, mess about, tarry, linger, lurk, mill about, mill around; total, number, add up, come, amount; count, matter, weigh; rate; deserve, merit; buy; shine; fall; depend; underlie; stink; subtend, delimit; incarnate, body forth, embody, substantiate; contain, take, hold; cost, be; measure; hum, buzz, seethe; pass; abound; disagree, disaccord, discord; gape, yawn, yaw; tend, be given, lean, incline, run; run, go; figure, enter; press; rage; relate, interrelate; rut; stagnate; stagnate; come in handy; squat; hoodoo; impend; range, run; stay, stay on, continue, remain; sell; translate; head, head up; come in for; compare; fall, come; run into, encounter; gravitate; pay; diverge; shine; iridesce; lie; stand; hang; litter; suit; end, terminate; fit; lend; let go; belong; belong; wind, curve; jumble, mingle; promise; accept, take; clean; draw; wash; balance; hail, come; act; test; seem; answer; beat; hold; contain; connect; sell; sell; kill; make; deck, adorn, decorate, grace, embellish, beautify; consist; work; lubricate; breathe; trim; swing; osculate; retard; transplant; cohere; object; stick; recognize; distribute; put out |
Meaning | Be identical to. Be someone or something. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something |
Meaning | Occupy a certain position or area. Be somewhere. |
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Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s PP |
Examples | "What is behind this behavior?" |
Narrower | stretch, stretch along; attend, go to; occupy, fill; dwell, shack, reside, live, inhabit, people, populate, domicile, domiciliate; inhabit, occupy; stand back, keep one's eyes off, keep one's distance, keep one's hands off, stay away; reach, extend to, touch; run, go, pass, lead, extend; go, lead; cover, extend; extend, poke out, reach out; lie; sit; face; straddle; follow; center on; lie, rest; belong, go; come |
Meaning | Have an existence, be extant. |
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Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s PP |
Synonyms | exist |
Entailed by | live |
Narrower | come; preexist; kick around, knock about, kick about; coexist; prevail, hold, obtain; dwell, consist, lie, belong, lie in; endanger, jeopardize, jeopardise, menace, threaten, imperil, peril; flow; distribute |
Nouns | being |
Meaning | Happen, occur, take place. |
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Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s; Something is ----ing PP; Somebody ----s PP |
Meaning | Be identical or equivalent to. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s something |
Synonyms | equal |
Narrower | equate, correspond; match, fit, correspond, check, jibe, gibe, tally, agree; represent, stand for, correspond; translate |
Contrary | differ |
Meaning | Form or compose. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something |
Examples | "These constitute my entire belonging" |
Synonyms | constitute, represent, make up, comprise |
Narrower | make; compose; form, constitute, make; range, straddle; fall into, fall under; present, pose; supplement |
Meaning | Work in a specific place, with a specific subject, or in a specific function. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody; Somebody ----s PP |
Synonyms | follow |
Narrower | vet; cox |
Meaning | Represent, as of a character on stage. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something |
Synonyms | embody, personify |
Narrower | body, personify; exemplify, represent |
Broader | typify, symbolize, symbolise, stand for, represent |
Meaning | Spend or use time. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something |
Examples | "I may be an hour" |
Broader | take, occupy, use up |
Meaning | Have life, be alive. |
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Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s |
Synonyms | live |
Entailed by | survive, last, live, live on, go, endure, hold up, hold out; outlive, outlast, survive |
Similar to | survive, last, live, live on, go, endure, hold up, hold out |
Nouns | being |
Meaning | To remain unmolested, undisturbed, or uninterrupted -- used only in infinitive form. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody |
Examples | "let her be" |
Broader | stay, remain, rest |
Meaning | Be priced at. |
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Pattern | Something ----s something |
Synonyms | cost |
Narrower | set back, knock back, put back |
Broader | be |