BE or be may refer to:

Linguistics

Be (Cyrillic) Be (Б б; italics: ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. It commonly represents the voiced bilabial plosive , like the English pronunciation of in "ball". It should not be confused with the Ve (Cyrillic), Cyrillic letter Ve (В ...

, a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet * ''be'' (interjection), in several languages * Be languages or Ong Be, a pair of languages of northern Hainan province, China *

Belarusian language Belarusian (, ) is an East Slavic languages, East Slavic language. It is one of the two Languages of Belarus, official languages in Belarus, the other being Russian language, Russian. It is also spoken in parts of Russia, Lithuania, Latvia, Polan ...

, ISO 639-1 code: be * Black English, or

African-American Vernacular English African-American Vernacular English (AAVE) is the variety of English natively spoken, particularly in urban communities, by most working- and middle-class African Americans and some Black Canadians. Having its own unique grammatical, voc ...

, an English dialect *

British English British English is the set of Variety (linguistics), varieties of the English language native to the United Kingdom, especially Great Britain. More narrowly, it can refer specifically to the English language in England, or, more broadly, to ...

, abbr. BE, usually used in contrast to AE (American English) * '' To be'', the English copular verb

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)'', a 2005 live album by Pain of Salvation *

Be (BTS album) ''Be'' is the fifth Korean-language and ninth overall studio album by South Korean boy band BTS. It was released on November 20, 2020, through Big Hit Entertainment, nine months after its predecessor, '' Map of the Soul: 7'' (2020). Created in re ...

, 2020

Songs

* "Be" (Neil Diamond song), a 1973 single * "Be", a song by Jessica Simpson from ''

In This Skin ''In This Skin'' is the third studio album by American recording artist Jessica Simpson. The album was released on August 19, 2003, by Columbia Records. It was reissued on March 2, 2004, with three new songs. Simpson began taking more creative ...

'' * "Be", a song by Lenny Kravitz from '' Let Love Rule'' * "Be", a song by Slade from ''

Whatever Happened to Slade ''Whatever Happened to Slade'' is the seventh studio album by the British rock group Slade. It was released on 21 March 1977 by Barn Records, but did not enter any national album chart. By the time of the album's release, Slade's popularity was ...

Organisations

Be Inc. Be Inc. was an American computer company that created and developed the BeOS and BeIA operating systems, and the BeBox personal computer. It was founded in 1990 by former Apple Inc., Apple Computer executive Jean-Louis Gassée, who also served a ...

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

Be Unlimited Be Unlimited (also traded as Be There or simply BE and latterly known legally as Sky Home Communications Limited) was an Internet service provider in the United Kingdom between 2004 and 2014. Initially founded as an independent company by Boris ...

, a former UK Internet service provider (2003–2014) *

Badminton Europe Badminton Europe (BEC) is the Sport governing body, governing body of badminton in Europe. It is one of the five continental bodies under the flag of the Badminton World Federation (BWF). It has 53 member associations and 1 associate member. It ...

, the governing body of badminton in Europe * British Eventing, the British governing body for the equestrian sport of eventing *

BearingPoint BearingPoint (parent company: BearingPoint Europe Holdings B.V.) is a multinational management and technology consulting firm headquartered in Amsterdam, Netherlands. It has operations in 24 countries with around 6,200 employees. The firm origi ...

(former stock ticker symbol BE) * or Left Bloc, a Portuguese political party *

Bob Evans Restaurants Bob Evans Restaurants is an American chain of restaurants owned by Golden Gate Capital based in New Albany, Ohio. After its founding in 1948 by Bob Evans (1918–2007), the restaurant chain evolved into a company with the corporate brand name ...

, an American restaurant chain

Places

* Bè, a neighborhood in Togo *

Belgium Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. Situated in a coastal lowland region known as the Low Countries, it is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeas ...

(ISO 3166-1 and FIPS 10-4 country code: BE) *

Berlin Berlin ( ; ) is the Capital of Germany, capital and largest city of Germany, by both area and List of cities in Germany by population, population. With 3.7 million inhabitants, it has the List of cities in the European Union by population withi ...

, a state of Germany *

Bermuda Bermuda is a British Overseas Territories, British Overseas Territory in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean. The closest land outside the territory is in the American state of North Carolina, about to the west-northwest. Bermuda is an ...

(World Meteorological Organization territory code: BE) *

Canton of Bern The canton of Bern, or Berne (; ; ; ), is one of the Canton of Switzerland, 26 cantons forming the Switzerland, Swiss Confederation. Its capital city, Bern, is also the ''de facto'' capital of Switzerland. The bear is the heraldic symbol of the c ...

, a canton of Switzerland

Science and technology

Base excess In physiology, base excess and base deficit refer to an excess or deficit, respectively, in the amount of base present in the blood. The value is usually reported as a concentration in units of mEq/L (mmol/L), with positive numbers indicating an ...

(BE), excess or deficit in the amount of base in the blood *

Beryllium Beryllium is a chemical element; it has Symbol (chemistry), symbol Be and atomic number 4. It is a steel-gray, hard, strong, lightweight and brittle alkaline earth metal. It is a divalent element that occurs naturally only in combination with ...

, symbol Be, a chemical element

Computing

* .be, 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 X86 virtualization, virtual ...

, backup and recovery software from Veritas Software *

Big-endian '' Jonathan_Swift.html" ;"title="Gulliver's Travels'' by Jonathan Swift">Gulliver's Travels'' by Jonathan Swift, the novel from which the term was coined In computing, endianness is the order in which bytes within a word (data type), word of d ...

, a system that stores the most significant byte of a word at the smallest memory address *

BeOS BeOS is a discontinued operating system for personal computers that was developed by Be Inc. It was conceived for the company's BeBox personal computer which was released in 1995. BeOS was designed for multitasking, multithreading, and a graph ...

, an operating system by Be

Physics

Baumé scale The Baumé scale is a pair of hydrometer scales developed by French pharmacist Antoine Baumé in 1768 to measure density of various liquids. The unit of the Baumé scale has been notated variously as ''degrees Baumé'', ''B°'', ''Bé°'' and simp ...

(°Bé), a density scale *

Be star Be stars are a heterogeneous set of stars with B spectral types and emission lines. A narrower definition, sometimes referred to as ''classical Be stars'', is a non-supergiant B star whose spectrum has, or had at some time, one or more Balmer ...

, in astronomy, a B-type star * Bejan number (Be), in thermodynamics and fluid mechanics

Transportation

* BE Be Electric, Electric Car Manufacturing Company * Baltimore and Eastern Railroad Company (B&E), US *

Beriev The PJSC Beriev Aircraft Company (), formerly Beriev Design Bureau, is a Russian aircraft manufacturer (design office prefix Be), specializing in amphibious aircraft. The company was founded in Taganrog in 1934 as OKB-49 by Georgy Mikhailovich B ...

(design office prefix: Be), a Russian aircraft manufacturer * Blue Engines (prefix: BE), the rocket engines from Blue Origin * BE, then IATA code of Flybe (2022–2023), former English airline * BE, then IATA code of

Flybe (1979–2020) Flybe (pronounced ), styled as flybe, was a British airline based in Exeter, England. Launched in 1979 as Jersey European Airways, and renamed Flybe in 2002, at various points it was the largest independent regional airline in Europe, and pr ...

, former English airline * BE, then IATA code of

British European Airways British European Airways (BEA), formally British European Airways Corporation, was a British airline which existed from 1946 until 1974. BEA operated to Europe, North Africa and the Middle East from airports around the United Kingdom. The ...

(1946–1974), former British airline

Other uses

* Bé (footballer), Portuguese footballer *

Bachelor of Engineering A Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) or a Bachelor of Science in Engineering (BSE) is an undergraduate academic degree awarded to a college graduate majoring in an engineering discipline at a higher education institution. In the United Kingdom, a Ba ...

, an academic degree * Bahá'í Era, in timekeeping * Buddhist Era, in timekeeping