be, v. 1. exist, live, be alive, have being; breathe, respire; prevail, obtain, inhere; seem, appear, look.
2. occur, happen, take place, come to pass, come about; crop up, spring up, arise, develop; hap, pass, come.
3. occupy, dwell, reside, inhabit; be located, be situated.
4. remain, stay, last, continue, stand, endure; abide, survive, persist.
5. attend, follow, escort, accompany; befall, betide, bechance.
beach, n. 1. shore, seaside, water's edge, strand, sands, sand, Chiefly Brit, shingle; seashore, coast, sea-coast, seaboard; foreshore, littoral, ground, land; rim, edge, margin, brink.
-v. 2. Nautical, run or put ashore, run or put aground, ground, strand.
beachcomber, n. 1. scavenger, forager, scrounge, scrounger; vagrant, tramp, derelict, human wreck; hobo, vagabond, SI. stiff, SI. bindlestiff, Australian. swagman, Australian, sundowner; rover, roamer, wanderer; loafer, shirker, U.S. Inf. bum; ragamuffin, tatterdemalion; outcast, pariah.
2. wave, comber, whitecap, white horse, breaker, surf; surge, swell, billow, ripple,
beached, adj. 1. aground, grounded, ashore, Obs. graveled, stuck fast; shipwrecked, wrecked, cast away, abandoned.
2. stranded, high and dry, deserted, forsaken, left in the lurch; straitened, in straits, in a fix, at a loss; discarded, rejected, left behind; shunned, scorned, outcast, forlorn.
beacon, n. 1. balefire, signal fire, smoke signal, watch fire, bonfire; torch, rocket, flare, firebrand, brand; pilot light, searchlight, flashlight; watchtower, lighthouse, pharos; warning, alarm, alert.
2. guide, guidepost, guideline, mile post, road sign, street sign, sign, signboard; mark, landmark, seamark, buoy; pointer, arrow, indicator.
-v. 3. warn, alert; sign, signal, guide, direct, steer, pilot.
4. flash, glow, gleam, glimmer, beam, shine, glitter,
bead, n. 1. globule, spherule, spheroid, oval; pellet, ball, shot, pea, pill; blob, bubble; dewdrop, pearl, tear; drop, droplet, glob, gutta; dab, lump, mass; particle, speck, dot, iota.
2. beads a. necklace, necklet, choker, pendant, lavaliere, chain,
b. braid, cord; wampum, peag; trimming, passementrie.
c. rosary, chaplet, devotions, prayers, Ave Marias, Aves, Hail Marys.
-v. 3. (all with beads) decorate, embellish, ornament, adorn, trim, bedeck; string, thread,
beak, n. 1. bill, nib, neb, pecker.
2. Slang, nose, snout, SI. nozzle, SI. schnozzola. See - nose.
3. Nautical,
a. ram, rostrum,
b. prow, bow, stem, bowsprit.
beaked, adj. hooked, crooked, aquiline, pointed, sharp; hook-nosed, beak-nosed, Roman-nosed, crookbilled; beak-like, beak-shaped, bill-shaped,
beaker, n. glass, goblet, mug, stein; tankard, flagon, hogshead, horn, pot; cup, chalice,
beam, n. 1. board, plank, timber, scantling, two-by-four; stick, strip, lath, furring, stud; rod, pole, Naut. spar, Naut. boom; girder, support, prop, brace, pile; rafter, crossbeam, tie beam, balk, joist, lintel; frame, trestle, transverse support.
2. ray, shaft, gleam, patch, spot, pencil; flash, streak, glare, lightning, coruscation, fulguration; glow, shine, shimmer, sparkle, flicker, twinkle; glitter, glint, glimmer, glistening; flutter, flare, spark, scintilla.