be

be has 22 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 2.

Definitions

• v. i.. To exist actually, or in the world of fact; to have ex/stence.
• v. i.. To exist in a certain manner or relation, -- whether as a reality or as a product of thought; to exist as the subject of a certain predicate, that is, as having a certain attribute, or as belonging to a certain sort, or as identical with what is specified, -- a word or words for the predicate being annexed; as, to be happy; to be here; to be large, or strong; to be an animal; to be a hero; to be a nonentity; three and two are five; annihilation is the cessation of existence; that is the man.
• v. i.. To take place; to happen; as, the meeting was on Thursday.
• v. i.. To signify; to represent or symbolize; to answer to.
• A prefix, originally the same word as by;
• To intensify the meaning; as, bespatter, bestir.
• To render an intransitive verb transitive; as, befall (to fall upon); bespeak (to speak for).
• To make the action of a verb particular or definite; as, beget (to get as offspring); beset (to set around).
• n.. a light strong brittle grey toxic bivalent metallic element
• v.. spend or use time; "I may be an hour"
• v.. work in a specific place, with a specific subject, or in a specific function; "He is a herpetologist"; "She is our resident philosopher"
• v.. have an existence, be extant; "Is there a God?"