BE or be may refer to:

Linguistics

* '' To be'', the English copular verb * Be (Cyrillic), a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet * ''be'' (interjection), in several languages *

Be language Be (), also known as Ong Be, Bê, or ''Vo Limgao'' (Mandarin 臨高 ''Lín'gāo''), is a pair of languages spoken by 600,000 people, 100,000 of them monolingual, on the north-central coast of Hainan Island, including the suburbs of the provincial ...

or Ong Be, a language of northern Hainan province, China *Black English, or

African-American Vernacular English African-American Vernacular English (AAVE, ), also referred to as Black (Vernacular) English, Black English Vernacular, or occasionally Ebonics (a colloquial, controversial term), is the variety of English natively spoken, particularly in urban ...

, an English dialect * be – ISO 639-1 code for Belarusian language

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) ''"BE" (Original Stage Production)'' is the second live album by Swedish progressive metal band Pain of Salvation, documenting one of the performances of their 2004 album '' BE'' in its entirety in Eskilstuna, Sweden, on 12 September 2003. In co ...

'', a 2005 live album by Pain of Salvation * Be (BTS album), 2020

Songs

* "Be" (Neil Diamond song), a 1973 single * "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

Be Inc. Be Inc. was an American computer company founded in 1990. It is best known for the development and release of BeOS, and the BeBox personal computer. Be was founded by former Apple Computer executive Jean-Louis Gassée with capital from Seymour Cra ...

, a former US software company (1990–2001) and developer of the Be Operating System (

BeOS BeOS is an operating system for personal computers first developed by Be Inc. in 1990. It was first written to run on BeBox hardware. BeOS was positioned as a multimedia platform that could be used by a substantial population of desktop users a ...

) * 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) * 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 *

Canton of Bern The canton of Bern or Berne (german: Kanton Bern; rm, Chantun Berna; french: canton de Berne; it, Canton Berna) is one of the 26 cantons forming the Swiss Confederation. Its capital city, Bern, is also the ''de facto'' capital of Switzerland. ...

, a canton of Switzerland

Science and technology

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

Computing

.be .be is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Belgium. As of November 2022 there are 1,746,459 registered domains. History The domain became active in 1989 and was administrated by Pierre Verbaeten of the Katholieke Universiteit ...

, the country code top-level domain for Belgium *

Backup Exec Veritas Backup Exec is a data protection software product designed for customers with mixed physical and virtual environments, and who are moving to public cloud services. Supported platforms include VMware and Hyper-V virtualization, Windows and ...

, 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 *

, 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

Transportation

* Baltimore and Eastern Railroad Company (B&E), US * Beriev (design office prefix: Be), a Russian aircraft manufacturer * Flybe (1979-2020), former English airline * Flybe (IATA airline code BE), based in Birmingham, England * British European Airways (IATA airline code BE until 1974)

Other uses

Bé (footballer) Anabela Fernanda Pinto Silva (born 26 December 1970), known as Bé, is a Portuguese former footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are associat ...

, Portuguese footballer * Bachelor of Engineering, an academic degree * Bahá'í Era, in timekeeping *

Buddhist Era The Buddhist calendar is a set of lunisolar calendars primarily used in Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, India, Sri Lanka, and Thailand as well as in Malaysia, Singapore and Vietnam by Chinese populations for religious or official occasions. While the ...

, in timekeeping