Be

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BE or be may refer to:

Linguistics

Be (Cyrillic), a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet
be (interjection), in several languages
Be (kana), in syllabic Japanese script
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

Albums

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

"Be", a song by Neil Diamond from the 1973 soundtrack Jonathan Livingston Seagull
"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

For transportation companies and vehicle manufacturers, see §Transportation.

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

Bè, a neighborhood in Togo
Belgium (ISO 3166-1 and FIPS 10-4 country code: BE)
Berlin, a state of Germany (ISO 3166 code: DE-BE)
Bermuda (World Meteorological Organization territory code: BE)
Canton of Bern, a canton of Switzerland (ISO 3166 code: CH-BE)
Lampung (vehicle registration prefix BE)

Science and technology

Computing

.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

Baumé scale (°Bé), a density scale
Be star, in astronomy, a B-type star
Bejan number (Be), in thermodynamics and fluid mechanics

Other uses in science and technology

Base excess (BE), excess or deficit in the amount of base in the blood
Beryllium, symbol Be, a chemical element

Transportation

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
BE, Indian Railways station code of Bareilly Junction railway station, Uttar Pradesh, India
Lampung (vehicle registration prefix BE)

Other uses

Bé (footballer), Portuguese footballer
Bachelor of Engineering, an academic degree
Bahá'í Era, in timekeeping
Buddhist Era, in timekeeping