Thesaurus: be

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1. v. i. To exist actually, or in the world of fact; to have ex/stence.
2. v. i. To word/exist">exist in a word/certain">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.
3. v. i. To take place; to happen; as, the meeting was on Thursday.
4. v. i. To signify; to represent or symbolize; to answer to.
5. n. a light strong brittle grey toxic bivalent metallic element
6. v. have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun)
7. v. be identical to; be someone or something
8. v. occupy a certain position or area; be somewhere
9. v. have an existence, be extant
10. v. be identical or equivalent to
11. v. form or compose
12. v. work in a specific place, with a specific subject, or in a specific function