Be and Continue

noun

• A light strong brittle grey toxic bivalent metallic element.
  • synonyms: beryllium, glucinium, atomic number 4

verb

• Have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun. )
  • usage: "John is rich"; "This is not a good answer"
• Be identical to; be someone or something.
  • usage: "The president of the company is John Smith"; "This is my house"
• Occupy a certain position or area; be somewhere.
  • usage: "Where is my umbrella" "The toolshed is in the back"; "What is behind this behavior"
• Have an existence, be extant.
  • usage: "Is there a God"
  • synonyms: exist
• Happen, occur, take place.
  • usage: "I lost my wallet; this was during the visit to my parents' house"; "There were two hundred people at his funeral"; "There was a lot of noise in the kitchen"
• Be identical or equivalent to.
  • usage: "One dollar equals 1, 000 rubles these days"
  • synonyms: equal
• Form or compose.
  • usage: "This money is my only income"; "The stone wall was the backdrop for the performance"; "These constitute my entire belonging"; "The children made up the chorus"; "This sum represents my entire income for a year"; "These few men comprise his entire army"
  • synonyms: constitute, represent, make up, comprise
• Work in a specific place, with a specific subject, or in a specific function.
  • usage: "He is a herpetologist"; "She is our resident philosopher"
  • synonyms: follow
• Represent, as of a character on stage.
  • usage: "Derek Jacobi was Hamlet"
  • synonyms: embody, personify
• Spend or use time.
  • usage: "I may be an hour"
• Have life, be alive.
  • usage: "Our great leader is no more"; "My grandfather lived until the end of war"
  • synonyms: live
• To remain unmolested, undisturbed, or uninterrupted - used only in infinitive form.
  • usage: "let her be"
• Be priced at.
  • usage: "These shoes cost $100"
  • synonyms: cost

• (v.i.) To signify; to represent or symbolize; to answer to.
• (v.i.) To take place; to happen; as, the meeting was on Thursday.
• (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.

BE is the two-character ISO 3166 country code for BELGIUM.

verb

• Continue a certain state, condition, or activity.
  • usage: "Keep on working"; "We continued to work into the night"; "Keep smiling"; "We went on working until well past midnight"
  • synonyms: go on, proceed, go along, keep
• Continue talking.
  • usage: "I know it's hard" he continued, "but there is no choice"; "carry on-pretend we are not in the room"
  • synonyms: go on, carry on, proceed
• Keep or maintain in unaltered condition; cause to remain or last.
  • usage: "preserve the peace in the family"; "continue the family tradition"; "Carry on the old traditions"
  • synonyms: uphold, carry on, bear on, preserve
• Move ahead; travel onward in time or space.
  • usage: "We proceeded towards Washington"; "She continued in the direction of the hills"; "We are moving ahead in time now"
  • synonyms: proceed, go forward
• Allow to remain in a place or position or maintain a property or feature.
  • usage: "We cannot continue several servants any longer"; "She retains a lawyer"; "The family's fortune waned and they could not keep their household staff"; "Our grant has run out and we cannot keep you on"; "We kept the work going as long as we could"; "She retained her composure"; "this garment retains its shape even after many washings"
  • synonyms: retain, keep, keep on
• Do something repeatedly and showing no intention to stop.
  • usage: "We continued our research into the cause of the illness"; "The landlord persists in asking us to move"
  • synonyms: persist in
• Continue after an interruption.
  • usage: "The demonstration continued after a break for lunch"
• Continue in a place, position, or situation.
  • usage: "After graduation, she stayed on in Cambridge as a student adviser"; "Stay with me, please"; "despite student protests, he remained Dean for another year"; "She continued as deputy mayor for another year"
  • synonyms: stay, stay on, remain
• Span an interval of distance, space or time.
  • usage: "The war extended over five years"; "The period covered the turn of the century"; "My land extends over the hills on the horizon"; "This farm covers some 200 acres"; "The Archipelago continues for another 500 miles"
  • synonyms: cover, extend
• Exist over a prolonged period of time.
  • usage: "The bad weather continued for two more weeks"

• (v.t.) To carry onward or extend; to prolong or produce; to add to or draw out in length.
• (v.i.) To be steadfast or constant in any course; to persevere; to abide; to endure; to persist; to keep up or maintain a particular condition, course or series of actions; as, the army continued to advance.
• (v.i.) To remain in a given place or condition; to remain in connection with; to abide; to stay.
• (v.t.) To retain; to suffer or cause to remain; as, the trustees were continued; also, to suffer to live.
• (v.t.) To protract or extend in duration; to preserve or persist in; to cease not.
• (v.i.) To be permanent or durable; to endure; to last.
• (v.t.) To unite; to connect.