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be
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n 1: a light strong brittle grey toxic bivalent metallic element
[syn: beryllium, Be, glucinium, atomic number 4]
v 1: have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective
or a predicate noun); "John is rich"; "This is not a good
answer"
2: be identical to; be someone or something; "The president of
the company is John Smith"; "This is my house"
3: occupy a certain position or area; be somewhere; "Where is my
umbrella?" "The toolshed is in the back"; "What is behind
this behavior?"
4: have an existence, be extant; "Is there a God?" [syn:
exist, be]
5: happen, occur, take place; "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"
6: be identical or equivalent to; "One dollar equals 1,000
rubles these days!" [syn: equal, be] [ant: differ]
7: form or compose; "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" [syn: constitute,
represent, make up, comprise, be]
8: work in a specific place, with a specific subject, or in a
specific function; "He is a herpetologist"; "She is our
resident philosopher" [syn: be, follow]
9: represent, as of a character on stage; "Derek Jacobi was
Hamlet" [syn: embody, be, personify]
10: spend or use time; "I may be an hour"
11: have life, be alive; "Our great leader is no more"; "My
grandfather lived until the end of war" [syn: be, live]
12: to remain unmolested, undisturbed, or uninterrupted -- used
only in infinitive form; "let her be"
13: be priced at; "These shoes cost $100" [syn: cost, be]
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bee
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n 1: any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and
solitary species
2: a social gathering to carry out some communal task or to hold
competitions
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glebe
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n 1: plot of land belonging to an English parish church or an
ecclesiastical office
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grebe
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n 1: small compact-bodied almost completely aquatic bird that
builds floating nests; similar to loons but smaller and
with lobate rather than webbed feet
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plebe
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n 1: a military trainee (as at a military academy) [syn:
cadet, plebe]
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b
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n 1: aerobic rod-shaped spore-producing bacterium; often
occurring in chainlike formations; found primarily in soil
[syn: bacillus, B]
2: originally thought to be a single vitamin but now separated
into several B vitamins [syn: B-complex vitamin, B
complex, vitamin B complex, vitamin B, B vitamin, B]
3: a trivalent metalloid element; occurs both in a hard black
crystal and in the form of a yellow or brown powder [syn:
boron, B, atomic number 5]
4: a logarithmic unit of sound intensity equal to 10 decibels
[syn: Bel, B]
5: (physics) a unit of nuclear cross section; the effective
circular area that one particle presents to another as a
target for an encounter [syn: barn, b]
6: the 2nd letter of the Roman alphabet [syn: B, b]
7: the blood group whose red cells carry the B antigen [syn:
B, type B, group B]
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hebe
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n 1: (Greek mythology) the goddess of youth and spring; wife of
Hercules; daughter of Zeus and Hera; cupbearer to the
Olympian gods
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thebe
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n 1: 100 thebe equal 1 pula in Botswana
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caribe
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n 1: small voraciously carnivorous freshwater fishes of South
America that attack and destroy living animals [syn:
piranha, pirana, caribe]
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dweeb
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n 1: an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected
or boringly studious [syn: swot, grind, nerd, wonk,
dweeb]
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bea
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deeb
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grieb
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heeb
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hieb
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klebe
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leeb
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leib
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liebe
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priebe
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reeb
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riebe
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siebe
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steeb
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steib
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strebe
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wiebe
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zeeb
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habib
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najib
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