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 (Lenny Kravitz album), Let Love Rule'' * "Be", a song by Slade from ''Whatever Happened to Slade''

Organisations

* 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) * 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, 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, 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

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