Be and Expected

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

• Regard something as probable or likely.
  • usage: "The meteorologists are expecting rain for tomorrow"
  • synonyms: expect, anticipate
• Consider obligatory; request and expect.
  • usage: "We require our secretary to be on time"; "Aren't we asking too much of these children"; "I expect my students to arrive in time for their lessons"
  • synonyms: ask, require, expect
• Look forward to the probable occurrence of.
  • usage: "We were expecting a visit from our relatives"; "She is looking to a promotion"; "he is waiting to be drafted"
  • synonyms: expect, look, await, wait
• Consider reasonable or due.
  • usage: "I'm expecting a full explanation as to why these files were destroyed"
  • synonyms: expect
• Look forward to the birth of a child.
  • usage: "She is expecting in March"
  • synonyms: expect
• Be pregnant with.
  • usage: "She is bearing his child"; "The are expecting another child in January"; "I am carrying his child"
  • synonyms: have a bun in the oven, bear, carry, gestate, expect

adjective

• Considered likely or probable to happen or arrive.
  • usage: "prepared for the expected attack"