BE

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BE (B.E. or Be or be) may stand for:

• The verb to be, see Indo-European copula
• BE (album), an album by Swedish band Pain of Salvation
• Be (album), an album by Common
• Be (band), a band that existed in 1997
• Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.)
• Breast expansion fetish
• Brian Eno, the father of ambient music
• Buddhist Era of the Thai solar calendar
• British Eventing, the British governing body for the equestrian sport of eventing
• "Be", a song by Jessica Simpson from her 2003 album In This Skin
• "Be" an off-Broadway show also known as Be by Mayumana
• Baha'i Era, the date notation of the Bahá'í calendar
• Bishop Eustace Prep, a high school in New Jersey

In linguistics:

• Be (Cyrillic), a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet
• Belarusian language (be), ISO 639 alpha-2 language code
• British English
• Black English, see African American Vernacular English

In science:

• Beryllium (Be), chemical element
• Bejan number, used in thermodynamics and fluid mechanics
• Bladder Exstrophy, a congenital urological condition

In politics:

• Bloco de Esquerda (Portuguese "Left Bloc"), a Portuguese political party

In sports:

• Badminton Europe, the governing body of badminton in Europe

The companies:

• Be Unlimited, a broadband ISP in the United Kingdom
• Be Inc., the software company that developed the BeOS operating system
• Beriev (Be), the Russian design bureau
• flybe (BE), IATA airline code for the UK-based airline

Places:

• Belgium (BE), the ISO 3166 and obsolete NATO 2-letter country code
  • .be, the ccTLD for Belgium
• Bermuda, World Meteorological Organization territory code
• Canton of Berne, Switzerland
• Bishop England, a Catholic High School in Charleston, South Carolina

[edit] See also

• bee (a type of insect)