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| n. (substance) | 1. atomic number 4, be, beryllium, glucinium | a light strong brittle grey toxic bivalent metallic element. |
| ~ metal, metallic element | any of several chemical elements that are usually shiny solids that conduct heat or electricity and can be formed into sheets etc.. |
| ~ beryl | the chief source of beryllium; colored transparent varieties are valued as gems. |
| ~ chrysoberyl | a rare hard yellow green mineral consisting of beryllium aluminate in crystal form; used as a gemstone. |
| ~ gadolinite, ytterbite | a mineral that is a source of rare earths; consists of silicates of iron and beryllium and cerium and yttrium and erbium. |
| v. (stative) | 2. be | have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun).; "John is rich"; "This is not a good answer" |
| ~ look | have a certain outward or facial expression.; "How does she look?"; "The child looks unhappy"; "She looked pale after the surgery" |
| ~ suffer, hurt | feel pain or be in pain. |
| ~ be well | be healthy; feel good.; "She has not been well lately" |
| ~ suffer | feel unwell or uncomfortable.; "She is suffering from the hot weather" |
| ~ feel | be conscious of a physical, mental, or emotional state.; "My cold is gone--I feel fine today"; "She felt tired after the long hike"; "She felt sad after her loss" |
| ~ remain, stay, rest | stay the same; remain in a certain state.; "The dress remained wet after repeated attempts to dry it"; "rest assured"; "stay alone"; "He remained unmoved by her tears"; "The bad weather continued for another week" |
| ~ continue | exist over a prolonged period of time.; "The bad weather continued for two more weeks" |
| ~ coruscate, sparkle, scintillate | be lively or brilliant or exhibit virtuosity.; "The musical performance sparkled"; "A scintillating conversation"; "his playing coruscated throughout the concert hall" |
| ~ befuddle, confound, bedevil, confuse, discombobulate, fox, fuddle, throw | be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly.; "These questions confuse even the experts"; "This question completely threw me"; "This question befuddled even the teacher" |
| ~ rank | take or have a position relative to others.; "This painting ranks among the best in the Western World" |
| ~ point | be positionable in a specified manner.; "The gun points with ease" |
| ~ need, want, require | have need of.; "This piano wants the attention of a competent tuner" |
| ~ compact, pack | have the property of being packable or of compacting easily.; "This powder compacts easily"; "Such odd-shaped items do not pack well" |
| ~ rest | not move; be in a resting position. |
| ~ cut | allow incision or separation.; "This bread cuts easily" |
| ~ seethe, boil | be in an agitated emotional state.; "The customer was seething with anger" |
| ~ moon about, moon around, mope | be apathetic, gloomy, or dazed. |
| ~ appear, seem, look | give a certain impression or have a certain outward aspect.; "She seems to be sleeping"; "This appears to be a very difficult problem"; "This project looks fishy"; "They appeared like people who had not eaten or slept for a long time" |
| ~ seem, appear | seem to be true, probable, or apparent.; "It seems that he is very gifted"; "It appears that the weather in California is very bad" |
| ~ owe | be in debt.; "She owes me $200"; "I still owe for the car"; "The thesis owes much to his adviser" |
| ~ belong | be owned by; be in the possession of.; "This book belongs to me" |
| ~ cover | be sufficient to meet, defray, or offset the charge or cost of.; "Is this enough to cover the check?" |
| ~ represent | be representative or typical for.; "This period is represented by Beethoven" |
| ~ account | be the sole or primary factor in the existence, acquisition, supply, or disposal of something.; "Passing grades account for half of the grades given in this exam" |
| ~ cut across | be contrary to ordinary procedure or limitations.; "Opinions on bombing the Serbs cut across party lines" |
| ~ begin, start | have a beginning characterized in some specified way.; "The novel begins with a murder"; "My property begins with the three maple trees"; "Her day begins with a workout"; "The semester begins with a convocation ceremony" |
| ~ begin | have a beginning, of a temporal event.; "WW II began in 1939 when Hitler marched into Poland"; "The company's Asia tour begins next month" |
| ~ stand | be in some specified state or condition.; "I stand corrected" |
| ~ define, delimit, delimitate, delineate, specify | determine the essential quality of. |
| ~ go | be or continue to be in a certain condition.; "The children went hungry that day" |
| ~ make sense, add up | be reasonable or logical or comprehensible. |
| ~ comprise, consist | be composed of.; "The land he conquered comprised several provinces"; "What does this dish consist of?" |
| ~ prove, turn out, turn up | be shown or be found to be.; "She proved to be right"; "The medicine turned out to save her life"; "She turned up HIV positive" |
| ~ account for | be the reason or explanation for.; "The recession accounts for the slow retail business" |
| ~ remain | be left; of persons, questions, problems, results, evidence, etc..; "There remains the question of who pulled the trigger"; "Carter remains the only President in recent history under whose Presidency the U.S. did not fight a war" |
| ~ stick by, stand by, adhere, stick | be loyal to.; "She stood by her husband in times of trouble"; "The friends stuck together through the war" |
| ~ footle, hang around, lallygag, loiter, lollygag, mess about, mill about, mill around, tarry, linger, loaf, lounge, lurk | be about.; "The high school students like to loiter in the Central Square"; "Who is this man that is hanging around the department?" |
| ~ number, total, amount, add up, come | add up in number or quantity.; "The bills amounted to $2,000"; "The bill came to $2,000" |
| ~ matter, count, weigh | have weight; have import, carry weight.; "It does not matter much" |
| ~ rate | be worthy of or have a certain rating.; "This bond rates highly" |
| ~ deserve, merit | be worthy or deserving.; "You deserve a promotion after all the hard work you have done" |
| ~ buy | be worth or be capable of buying.; "This sum will buy you a ride on the train" |
| ~ shine | be clear and obvious.; "A shining example" |
| ~ fall | be due.; "payments fall on the 1st of the month" |
| ~ depend | be contingent upon (something that is elided).; "That depends" |
| ~ underlie | be or form the base for. |
| ~ stink | be extremely bad in quality or in one's performance.; "This term paper stinks!" |
| ~ suck | be inadequate or objectionable.; "this sucks!" |
| ~ subtend, delimit | be opposite to; of angles and sides, in geometry. |
| ~ body forth, embody, incarnate, substantiate | represent in bodily form.; "He embodies all that is evil wrong with the system"; "The painting substantiates the feelings of the artist" |
| ~ contain, hold, take | be capable of holding or containing.; "This box won't take all the items"; "The flask holds one gallon" |
| ~ cost, be | be priced at.; "These shoes cost $100" |
| ~ measure | have certain dimensions.; "This table surfaces measures 20inches by 36 inches" |
| ~ seethe, hum, buzz | be noisy with activity.; "This office is buzzing with activity" |
| ~ abound | be abundant or plentiful; exist in large quantities. |
| ~ disaccord, discord, disagree | be different from one another. |
| ~ yaw, gape, yawn | be wide open.; "the deep gaping canyon" |
| ~ be given, incline, tend, lean, run | have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined.; "She tends to be nervous before her lectures"; "These dresses run small"; "He inclined to corpulence" |
| ~ run, go | have a particular form.; "the story or argument runs as follows"; "as the saying goes..." |
| ~ figure, enter | be or play a part of or in.; "Elections figure prominently in every government program"; "How do the elections figure in the current pattern of internal politics?" |
| ~ press | be urgent.; "This is a pressing problem" |
| ~ rage | be violent; as of fires and storms. |
| ~ interrelate, relate | be in a relationship with.; "How are these two observations related?" |
| ~ rut | be in a state of sexual excitement; of male mammals. |
| ~ stagnate | cease to flow; stand without moving.; "Stagnating waters"; "blood stagnates in the capillaries" |
| ~ stagnate | stand still.; "Industry will stagnate if we do not stimulate our economy" |
| ~ come in handy | be useful for a certain purpose. |
| ~ squat | be close to the earth, or be disproportionately wide.; "The building squatted low" |
| ~ hoodoo | bring bad luck; be a source of misfortune. |
| ~ impend | be imminent or about to happen.; "Changes are impending" |
| ~ range, run | change or be different within limits.; "Estimates for the losses in the earthquake range as high as $2 billion"; "Interest rates run from 5 to 10 percent"; "The instruments ranged from tuba to cymbals"; "My students range from very bright to dull" |
| ~ stay on, remain, stay, continue | continue in a place, position, or situation.; "After graduation, she stayed on in Cambridge as a student adviser"; "Stay with me, please"; "despite student protests, he remained Dean for another year"; "She continued as deputy mayor for another year" |
| ~ sell | be sold at a certain price or in a certain way.; "These books sell like hot cakes" |
| ~ translate | be translatable, or be translatable in a certain way.; "poetry often does not translate"; "Tolstoy's novels translate well into English" |
| ~ head up, head | be the first or leading member of (a group) and excel.; "This student heads the class" |
| ~ come in for | be subject to or the object of.; "The governor came in for a lot of criticism" |
| ~ compare | be comparable.; "This car does not compare with our line of Mercedes" |
| ~ fall, come | come under, be classified or included.; "fall into a category"; "This comes under a new heading" |
| ~ run into, encounter | be beset by.; "The project ran into numerous financial difficulties" |
| ~ gravitate | be attracted to.; "Boys gravitate towards girls at that age" |
| ~ pay | be worth it.; "It pays to go through the trouble" |
| ~ diverge | have no limits as a mathematical series. |
| ~ shine | be distinguished or eminent.; "His talent shines" |
| ~ iridesce | be iridescent.; "The corals iridesced under the surface of the clear water" |
| ~ lie | be and remain in a particular state or condition.; "lie dormant" |
| ~ stand | occupy a place or location, also metaphorically.; "We stand on common ground" |
| ~ hang | be menacing, burdensome, or oppressive.; "This worry hangs on my mind"; "The cloud of suspicion hangs over her" |
| ~ litter | strew.; "Cigar butts littered the ground" |
| ~ suit | be agreeable or acceptable.; "This time suits me" |
| ~ end, terminate | be the end of; be the last or concluding part of.; "This sad scene ended the movie" |
| ~ fit | conform to some shape or size.; "How does this shirt fit?" |
| ~ lend | have certain characteristics of qualities for something; be open or vulnerable to.; "This story would lend itself well to serialization on television"; "The current system lends itself to great abuse" |
| ~ let go | be relaxed.; "Don't be so worried all the time--just let go!" |
| ~ belong | be rightly classified in a class or category.; "The whales belong among the mammals" |
| ~ belong | be suitable or acceptable.; "This student somehow doesn't belong" |
| ~ curve, wind, twist | extend in curves and turns.; "The road winds around the lake"; "the path twisted through the forest" |
| ~ jumble, mingle | be all mixed up or jumbled together.; "His words jumbled" |
| ~ promise | give grounds for expectations.; "The new results were promising"; "The results promised fame and glory" |
| ~ accept, take | be designed to hold or take.; "This surface will not take the dye" |
| ~ clean | be cleanable.; "This stove cleans easily" |
| ~ draw | allow a draft.; "This chimney draws very well" |
| ~ wash | be capable of being washed.; "Does this material wash?" |
| ~ balance | be in equilibrium.; "He was balancing on one foot" |
| ~ hail, come | be a native of.; "She hails from Kalamazoo" |
| ~ act | be suitable for theatrical performance.; "This scene acts well" |
| ~ test | show a certain characteristic when tested.; "He tested positive for HIV" |
| ~ seem | appear to exist.; "There seems no reason to go ahead with the project now" |
| ~ answer | be liable or accountable.; "She must answer for her actions" |
| ~ beat | be superior.; "Reading beats watching television"; "This sure beats work!" |
| ~ hold | have as a major characteristic.; "The novel holds many surprises"; "The book holds in store much valuable advise" |
| ~ count | have a certain value or carry a certain weight.; "each answer counts as three points" |
| ~ contain | be divisible by.; "24 contains 6" |
| ~ connect | be scheduled so as to provide continuing service, as in transportation.; "The local train does not connect with the Amtrak train"; "The planes don't connect and you will have to wait for four hours" |
| ~ sell | be responsible for the sale of.; "All her publicity sold the products" |
| ~ sell | be approved of or gain acceptance.; "The new idea sold well in certain circles" |
| ~ kill | be fatal.; "cigarettes kill"; "drunken driving kills" |
| ~ make | be suitable for.; "Wood makes good furniture" |
| ~ deck, adorn, beautify, decorate, embellish, grace | be beautiful to look at.; "Flowers adorned the tables everywhere" |
| ~ consist | have its essential character; be comprised or contained in; be embodied in.; "The payment consists in food"; "What does love consist in?" |
| ~ work | behave in a certain way when handled.; "This dough does not work easily"; "The soft metal works well" |
| ~ lubricate | have lubricating properties.; "the liquid in this can lubricates well" |
| ~ breathe | allow the passage of air through.; "Our new synthetic fabric breathes and is perfect for summer wear" |
| ~ trim | be in equilibrium during a flight.; "The airplane trimmed" |
| ~ swing | have a certain musical rhythm.; "The music has to swing" |
| ~ osculate | be intermediate between two taxonomic groups.; "These species osculate" |
| ~ retard | be delayed. |
| ~ transplant | be transplantable.; "These delicate plants do not transplant easily" |
| ~ cohere | have internal elements or parts logically connected so that aesthetic consistency results.; "the principles by which societies cohere" |
| ~ object | be averse to or express disapproval of.; "My wife objects to modern furniture" |
| ~ stick | be or become fixed.; "The door sticks--we will have to plane it" |
| ~ recognize | exhibit recognition for (an antigen or a substrate). |
| ~ distribute | be mathematically distributive. |
| ~ put out | be sexually active.; "She is supposed to put out" |
| ~ broil, bake | be very hot, due to hot weather or exposure to the sun.; "The town was broiling in the sun"; "the tourists were baking in the heat" |
| ~ swim, drown | be covered with or submerged in a liquid.; "the meat was swimming in a fatty gravy" |
| ~ swim | be dizzy or giddy.; "my brain is swimming after the bottle of champagne" |
| ~ belong | be a member, adherent, inhabitant, etc. (of a group, organization, or place).; "They belong to the same political party" |
| v. (stative) | 3. be | be identical to; be someone or something.; "The president of the company is John Smith"; "This is my house" |
| v. (stative) | 4. be | occupy a certain position or area; be somewhere.; "Where is my umbrella?"; "The toolshed is in the back"; "What is behind this behavior?" |
| ~ stretch, stretch along | occupy a large, elongated area.; "The park stretched beneath the train line" |
| ~ attend, go to | be present at (meetings, church services, university), etc..; "She attends class regularly"; "I rarely attend services at my church"; "did you go to the meeting?" |
| ~ fill, occupy | occupy the whole of.; "The liquid fills the container" |
| ~ inhabit, live, populate, dwell | inhabit or live in; be an inhabitant of.; "People lived in Africa millions of years ago"; "The people inhabited the islands that are now deserted"; "this kind of fish dwells near the bottom of the ocean"; "deer are populating the woods" |
| ~ inhabit | be present in.; "sweet memories inhabit this house" |
| ~ keep one's distance, keep one's eyes off, keep one's hands off, stand back, stay away | stay clear of, avoid.; "Keep your hands off my wife!"; "Keep your distance from this man--he is dangerous" |
| ~ extend to, reach, touch | to extend as far as.; "The sunlight reached the wall"; "Can he reach?"; "The chair must not touch the wall" |
| ~ extend, run, lead, pass, go | stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point.; "Service runs all the way to Cranbury"; "His knowledge doesn't go very far"; "My memory extends back to my fourth year of life"; "The facts extend beyond a consideration of her personal assets" |
| ~ lead, go | lead, extend, or afford access.; "This door goes to the basement"; "The road runs South" |
| ~ cover, extend, continue | span an interval of distance, space or time.; "The war extended over five years"; "The period covered the turn of the century"; "My land extends over the hills on the horizon"; "This farm covers some 200 acres"; "The Archipelago continues for another 500 miles" |
| ~ poke out, reach out, extend | reach outward in space.; "The awning extends several feet over the sidewalk" |
| ~ lie | be located or situated somewhere; occupy a certain position. |
| ~ sit | be located or situated somewhere.; "The White House sits on Pennsylvania Avenue" |
| ~ sit around, sit | be around, often idly or without specific purpose.; "The object sat in the corner"; "We sat around chatting for another hour" |
| ~ face | be opposite.; "the facing page"; "the two sofas face each other" |
| ~ straddle | sit or stand astride of. |
| ~ follow | be next.; "Mary plays best, with John and Sue following" |
| ~ center on | have as a center.; "The region centers on Charleston" |
| ~ rest, lie | have a place in relation to something else.; "The fate of Bosnia lies in the hands of the West"; "The responsibility rests with the Allies" |
| ~ belong, go | be in the right place or situation.; "Where do these books belong?"; "Let's put health care where it belongs--under the control of the government"; "Where do these books go?" |
| ~ come | exist or occur in a certain point in a series.; "Next came the student from France" |
| v. (stative) | 5. be, exist | have an existence, be extant.; "Is there a God?" |
| ~ come | be found or available.; "These shoes come in three colors; The furniture comes unassembled" |
| ~ preexist | exist beforehand or prior to a certain point in time.; "Did this condition pre-exist?" |
| ~ kick about, kick around, knock about | be around; be alive or active.; "Does the old man still kick around?" |
| ~ coexist | exist together. |
| ~ indwell | to exist as an inner activating spirit, force, or principle. |
| ~ prevail, obtain, hold | be valid, applicable, or true.; "This theory still holds" |
| ~ consist, lie in, dwell, lie | originate (in).; "The problems dwell in the social injustices in this country" |
| ~ endanger, imperil, jeopardise, jeopardize, menace, peril, threaten | pose a threat to; present a danger to.; "The pollution is endangering the crops" |
| ~ flow | be abundantly present.; "The champagne flowed at the wedding" |
| ~ distribute | be distributed or spread, as in statistical analyses.; "Values distribute" |
| ~ inhabit, dwell | exist or be situated within.; "Strange notions inhabited her mind" |
| v. (stative) | 6. be | 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" |
| v. (stative) | 7. be, equal | be identical or equivalent to.; "One dollar equals 1,000 rubles these days!" |
| ~ correspond, equate | be equivalent or parallel, in mathematics. |
| ~ correspond, gibe, jibe, match, tally, agree, fit, check | be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics.; "The two stories don't agree in many details"; "The handwriting checks with the signature on the check"; "The suspect's fingerprints don't match those on the gun" |
| ~ represent, stand for, correspond | take the place of or be parallel or equivalent to.; "Because of the sound changes in the course of history, an 'h' in Greek stands for an 's' in Latin" |
| ~ translate | be equivalent in effect.; "the growth in income translates into greater purchasing power" |
| v. (stative) | 8. be, comprise, constitute, make up, represent | 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" |
| ~ make | constitute the essence of.; "Clothes make the man" |
| ~ compose | form the substance of.; "Greed and ambition composed his personality" |
| ~ form, constitute, make | to compose or represent:.; "This wall forms the background of the stage setting"; "The branches made a roof"; "This makes a fine introduction" |
| ~ straddle, range | range or extend over; occupy a certain area.; "The plants straddle the entire state" |
| ~ fall into, fall under | be included in or classified as.; "This falls under the rubric 'various'" |
| ~ pose, present | introduce.; "This poses an interesting question" |
| ~ supplement | serve as a supplement to.; "Vitamins supplemented his meager diet" |
| v. (social) | 9. be, follow | work in a specific place, with a specific subject, or in a specific function.; "He is a herpetologist"; "She is our resident philosopher" |
| ~ vet | work as a veterinarian.; "She vetted for the farms in the area for many years" |
| ~ cox | act as the coxswain, in a boat race. |
| v. (stative) | 10. be, embody, personify | represent, as of a character on stage.; "Derek Jacobi was Hamlet" |
| ~ stand for, symbolize, represent, symbolise, typify | express indirectly by an image, form, or model; be a symbol.; "What does the Statue of Liberty symbolize?" |
| ~ body, personify | invest with or as with a body; give body to. |
| ~ exemplify, represent | be characteristic of.; "This compositional style is exemplified by this fugue" |
| v. (possession) | 11. be | spend or use time.; "I may be an hour" |
| ~ take, use up, occupy | require (time or space).; "It took three hours to get to work this morning"; "This event occupied a very short time" |
| v. (stative) | 12. be, live | have life, be alive.; "Our great leader is no more"; "My grandfather lived until the end of war" |
| ~ live on, survive, last, endure, live, hold out, hold up, go | continue to live through hardship or adversity.; "We went without water and food for 3 days"; "These superstitions survive in the backwaters of America"; "The race car driver lived through several very serious accidents"; "how long can a person last without food and water?" |
| v. (stative) | 13. be | to remain unmolested, undisturbed, or uninterrupted -- used only in infinitive form.; "let her be" |
| ~ remain, stay, rest | stay the same; remain in a certain state.; "The dress remained wet after repeated attempts to dry it"; "rest assured"; "stay alone"; "He remained unmoved by her tears"; "The bad weather continued for another week" |
| v. (stative) | 14. be, cost | be priced at.; "These shoes cost $100" |
| ~ be | have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun).; "John is rich"; "This is not a good answer" |
| ~ knock back, put back, set back | cost a certain amount.; "My daughter's wedding set me back $20,000" |
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