being1 nounbeing2 verb
beingbeing1 ●●○ W3 noun 
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- a human being
- living beings
- And that electrical energy also affects human beings.
- First of all, the bureaucrats shop like robots, not like human beings.
- It's so peculiar to think that you plus wife equals a new human being.
- Nature is said to abhor a vacuum; human beings abhor complexity. 3.
- The physiological states of growing organisms including human beings - vary greatly from one stage to another.
- These are status-hungry beings eager to define a place in the world for themselves and for others.
- We live by these great beings in the sky.
Longman Language Activatorto start to exist
if something such as an organization or a country comes into being or into existence , it starts to exist: · Pakistan came into existence as an independent country in 1947.· Darwin's theory of evolution explains how different species came into being.
to suddenly start to exist in a very short period of time: · Dozens of websites have sprung up to provide information for travelers.· New dot.com companies are springing up all the time.
if something such as a problem, a difficulty, or an argument arises , it appears or starts, usually as a result of something else happening: · When a conflict arises in the workplace, you should aim to repair the relationship as quickly as possible.arise from/out of: · Low achievement at school often arises from poverty and bad social conditions.if/when/should etc the need arise (=if etc it becomes necessary): · All staff are expected to do some overtime, if the need arises.
if an important idea, group, or organization is born , it starts to exist - use this especially when you are describing the history of something: : · With the invention of the electric guitar, rock 'n' roll was born.· Picasso was painting pictures in a Cubist style long before the Cubist movement was born.
when something new starts to exist or be used: · The arrival of the railroads after the Civil War produced a huge building boom in California.· the arrival of gene technology
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY
a human being a story about alien beings who invade Earth The whole of her being had been taken over by a desire to return to her homeland.COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES alien beings from another planet After the operation her condition was described as comfortable. The youth is described as being 18 to 19 years old. Are there intelligent beings on other planets? I know Ian said he liked her singing, but he was only being polite. Workers who broke the strike risked being attacked when they left the factory. A good meal promotes a feeling of well-being. the physical and emotional well-being of the children We are now concerned for the economic well-being of the country.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
a human being a story about alien beings who invade Earth The whole of her being had been taken over by a desire to return to her homeland. alien beings from another planet After the operation her condition was described as comfortable. The youth is described as being 18 to 19 years old.· The breakfast program improves the health and well-being of the children.
Are there intelligent beings on other planets?· He accused me of being a liar.
I know Ian said he liked her singing, but he was only being polite. Workers who broke the strike risked being attacked when they left the factory. A good meal promotes a feeling of well-being. the physical and emotional well-being of the children We are now concerned for the economic well-being of the country.· The daleks in question are not enraged alien beings with full metal jackets.· There was no alien spacecraft, and there were no alien beings and no secret autopsies in the desert in 1947.· One to concentrate on his thoughts, the other to concentrate on the flight ahead that was alien to his being.· That was exactly how I felt, as if I had been brought up by alien beings, inhuman things.· In short, he concluded without reservation that the canals were artificial constructs of technologically advanced alien beings.
· Science can try to understand what computational change turned a chimpanzee into a conscious human being.· For nothing can be called intrinsically valuable unless it is actually valued by some conscious being.· One major distinguishing feature between all conscious beings is the eyes.
· To: Lord Younger Please hear my plead From a fellow human being with just one need.· Artists, together with their fellow beings, picked their way through ruined cities, wearing what clothes they could get.· Surely some one would look at me back - recognize me as some kind of fellow human being?· The satisfaction of helping fellow human beings in need.· Their failure was that, because of man's inhumanity to his fellow beings, they did not fulfil their potential.· I would be more than happy to greet the Duchess with the manners and respect that any fellow human being deserves.· It never does to judge one's fellow human beings, does it?· He gave the impression of being perpetually amused by, and yet far above, the foibles of fellow human beings.
· Sharing in such a personal faith gives unity to the diversity of human beings, bringing us together with others.· A human being can undergo only so many changes and take in only so many experiences.· It is clear that the destination of post-mortem existence was a world other than and different from the world human beings inhabit.· But Night Trap could not be exempted because it depicted violent actions involving realistic images of human beings rather than straight forward computer graphics.· Certainly we now know that suffering and death existed among animals long before the appearance of the first human beings.· The funny man who had found her on a distant planet and had treated her as a human being.· The human being, in other words, may be the victim of generations of male choice even more than female choice.
· Is this consistent with respect for intelligent human beings?· He is a decent, intelligent human being who happens to see the world through a very narrow prism.· We are hiding from the attack presented by the plain statements of a normal and intelligent human being.· He took me to the farmer, who soon realized that I was not an animal, but an intelligent being.· Maybe some other race of intelligent beings elsewhere in the galaxy will achieve a better balance between responsibility and aggression.· Some scientists believe that these marine mammals may be more intelligent than human beings.· For we are clearly concerned with intelligent human beings.
· Why should spirits aid living beings?· Odonata have never attacked a living human being.· It had all the required characteristics of a living being and Lovelock concluded that this indeed was what it was.· A living being is therefore in essence a potentially self-healing system.· Filaments linked living beings with the seeds of themselves in the deep-down ooze.· Its excesses had already degenerated into the sacrifice of living beings and its Chaotic nature was increasingly evident.· He does not take into consideration the fact that they are killing, or trying to kill an living being.· They were trying to earn a decent living as human beings.
· It displays a basic lack of respect for other human beings.· Secondly, central bankers, like other human beings, can take the wrong decisions.· They can even distinguish the scent of other human beings by sniffing the ground where they may have walked.· So children take precedence over animals and other human beings generally do also.· Just three years later I was taller than any other human being at our school, teachers included.· Form close relationships with other human beings.
· In turn, this presupposes treating the other as a person, as, at least partly, a rational being.· It is the specification of those basic intrinsic values that all rational beings would desire.· The implication, they fear, is that when the chips are down it is only rational human beings that really matter.· So indeterminism is a necessary condition of the later development of morally important freedom in rational beings.· I am not convinced that the principle of natural selection alone makes the emergence of rational beings probable.
· Socialisation is essential for a person to develop into a social being.· Perceptions shaped her; proving her only human, a social being.· Fourthly, ideology legitimizes social relations and covers over contradictions in the material relations of social being.· Individuals, through love, become real social beings, each identifying with and loving through the other.· Style may crystallize into persona and persona be understood as a public presentation of a particular type of social being.· In the country you lived as a social being and at the valuation of others.· For scientists are social beings, their ideas moulded partly by social experience.· Every child presents this process of transformation to us; only by that means does it become a moral and social being.
· I presume that we mean a supreme personal being - distinct from the world and creator of the world.· Belief in supreme beings of whatever creed or breed seemed to Kate to constitute an evasion of personal responsibility.· Fundamentalism is a belief system that can not be refuted because it comes from a supreme being.
· She shivered through her whole being.· Real compassion involves our whole being.· His whole being had been consumed by a passionate longing to return.· Two whole beings, joined together.· In fact my whole being was permeated by the leaden-armed pervading weakness one feels when forced to work in the small hours.· The thought was terrifying to one whose whole being was devoted to the outer show.· The self is how people see themselves as whole beings.· There is joy in living in this very moment with the whole being.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRYPHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► I’m not being funny (but)
1come into being/be brought into being to start to exist: - New democracies have come into being since the end of the Cold War.
- Mr. Bell denied being drunk and disorderly and denied being in breach of the bail condition.
- Once, in about 1985 I think, for being drunk and disorderly.
- Reportedly, two Houston police officers arrested a black woman for being drunk and disorderly.
- All other things being equal, schools where parents are highly involved are more likely to run effectively.
- Both snail genes and fluke genes stand to gain from the snail's bodily survival, all other things being equal.
- But all other things being equal, the gay and lesbian community has responded well to examples of perceived corporate goodwill.
- But all things being equal, most movie makers would like their facts to be right.
- It shows the quantities of a product which will be demanded at various prices, all other things being equal.
- Significant improvements in clarity and stereo imaging are amongst the more obvious benefits of such parity, all other things being equal.
- The bright chestnut is considered the most characteristic colour and, all other things being equal, the one to be preferred.
- And in that moment she wished with every fibre of her being that it really was possible for her to stay away.
- What she was sure of, though, was that she wanted him with every fibre of her being.
- Finally new businesses do not spring into existence simply because taxes are reduced in a given area.
- Here, a fast, sparkling fresh stream springs into existence, fords a lane and runs parallel to a wooden pathway.
- It may be possible to think of a universe springing into existence out of nothing at all.
- Louis, have sprung into being.
- The nurse's soft, slightly damp touch faded and darkness sprang into being inside Chesarynth's head.
- His arguments struck us as completely ridiculous.
- Mr. West struck me as a very good businessman.
- Alan and I used to fight - but that was just little boys striking out.
- It all struck Tish as an exciting ride.
- It did strike me as somewhat odd that Ellen would wait so long in life to discover her true orientation.
- Jocasta struck him as a typical Hollywood brat, neglected, indulged, selfish and forced to grow up too fast.
- She struck me as being a horror in the play.
- Surely these folks were great pals but that strikes me as a strange way to show it.
- They hoped that the very talk of a general strike would act as a restraining influence on militarism.
- Thus the strike came as no surprise to those involved.
- Both snail genes and fluke genes stand to gain from the snail's bodily survival, all other things being equal.
- But all things being equal, most movie makers would like their facts to be right.
- But all other things being equal, the gay and lesbian community has responded well to examples of perceived corporate goodwill.
- It shows the quantities of a product which will be demanded at various prices, all other things being equal.
- Significant improvements in clarity and stereo imaging are amongst the more obvious benefits of such parity, all other things being equal.
- The bright chestnut is considered the most characteristic colour and, all other things being equal, the one to be preferred.
- Although the government aims to encourage private enterprise, around one third of the economy will remain under state control, for the time being.
- Bob's keeping his car in our garage for the time being.
- For the time being, Mrs Gilman's classes will be taken by other teachers.
- But for the time being, at least, stick an asterisk next to this season.
- But for the time being, one has to be realistic.
- Certainly, it rules out an easing for the time being.
- The villagers' resistance has led to the plan being postponed for the time being.
- This will, hopefully, shift his focus from writing to acting, at least for the time being.
- Tom is retired for the time being.
- We both know that the burden for the time being is going to be on him and his paintings.
- When it asks which formats it should play, let it take over everything for the time being.
a law that first came into being in 19122[countable] a living thing, especially a person: a human beingintelligent/conscious/rational etc being a story about alien beings who invade Earth3[uncountable] literary the most important quality or nature of something, especially of a personthe core/roots/whole of somebody’s being The whole of her being had been taken over by a desire to return to her homeland.being1 nounbeing2 verb
beingbe‧ing2 /ˈbiːɪŋ/ verb [linking verb] EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Being young and single, I wasn't really worried about what might happen.
- I wasn't surprised about the accident, kids being what they are.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES alien beings from another planet After the operation her condition was described as comfortable. The youth is described as being 18 to 19 years old. Are there intelligent beings on other planets? I know Ian said he liked her singing, but he was only being polite. Workers who broke the strike risked being attacked when they left the factory. A good meal promotes a feeling of well-being. the physical and emotional well-being of the children We are now concerned for the economic well-being of the country.
alien beings from another planet After the operation her condition was described as comfortable. The youth is described as being 18 to 19 years old.· The breakfast program improves the health and well-being of the children.
Are there intelligent beings on other planets?· He accused me of being a liar.
I know Ian said he liked her singing, but he was only being polite. Workers who broke the strike risked being attacked when they left the factory. A good meal promotes a feeling of well-being. the physical and emotional well-being of the children We are now concerned for the economic well-being of the country.PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► I’m not being funny (but)
1the present participle of be2used to give the reason for something: - Mr. Bell denied being drunk and disorderly and denied being in breach of the bail condition.
- Once, in about 1985 I think, for being drunk and disorderly.
- Reportedly, two Houston police officers arrested a black woman for being drunk and disorderly.
- All other things being equal, schools where parents are highly involved are more likely to run effectively.
- Both snail genes and fluke genes stand to gain from the snail's bodily survival, all other things being equal.
- But all other things being equal, the gay and lesbian community has responded well to examples of perceived corporate goodwill.
- But all things being equal, most movie makers would like their facts to be right.
- It shows the quantities of a product which will be demanded at various prices, all other things being equal.
- Significant improvements in clarity and stereo imaging are amongst the more obvious benefits of such parity, all other things being equal.
- The bright chestnut is considered the most characteristic colour and, all other things being equal, the one to be preferred.
- And in that moment she wished with every fibre of her being that it really was possible for her to stay away.
- What she was sure of, though, was that she wanted him with every fibre of her being.
- Finally new businesses do not spring into existence simply because taxes are reduced in a given area.
- Here, a fast, sparkling fresh stream springs into existence, fords a lane and runs parallel to a wooden pathway.
- It may be possible to think of a universe springing into existence out of nothing at all.
- Louis, have sprung into being.
- The nurse's soft, slightly damp touch faded and darkness sprang into being inside Chesarynth's head.
- His arguments struck us as completely ridiculous.
- Mr. West struck me as a very good businessman.
- Alan and I used to fight - but that was just little boys striking out.
- It all struck Tish as an exciting ride.
- It did strike me as somewhat odd that Ellen would wait so long in life to discover her true orientation.
- Jocasta struck him as a typical Hollywood brat, neglected, indulged, selfish and forced to grow up too fast.
- She struck me as being a horror in the play.
- Surely these folks were great pals but that strikes me as a strange way to show it.
- They hoped that the very talk of a general strike would act as a restraining influence on militarism.
- Thus the strike came as no surprise to those involved.
- Both snail genes and fluke genes stand to gain from the snail's bodily survival, all other things being equal.
- But all things being equal, most movie makers would like their facts to be right.
- But all other things being equal, the gay and lesbian community has responded well to examples of perceived corporate goodwill.
- It shows the quantities of a product which will be demanded at various prices, all other things being equal.
- Significant improvements in clarity and stereo imaging are amongst the more obvious benefits of such parity, all other things being equal.
- The bright chestnut is considered the most characteristic colour and, all other things being equal, the one to be preferred.
- Although the government aims to encourage private enterprise, around one third of the economy will remain under state control, for the time being.
- Bob's keeping his car in our garage for the time being.
- For the time being, Mrs Gilman's classes will be taken by other teachers.
- But for the time being, at least, stick an asterisk next to this season.
- But for the time being, one has to be realistic.
- Certainly, it rules out an easing for the time being.
- The villagers' resistance has led to the plan being postponed for the time being.
- This will, hopefully, shift his focus from writing to acting, at least for the time being.
- Tom is retired for the time being.
- We both know that the burden for the time being is going to be on him and his paintings.
- When it asks which formats it should play, let it take over everything for the time being.
Being a quiet sort of person, I didn’t want to get involved. You can’t expect them to sit still for that long, children being what they are.3being as British English spoken because SYN as: You might as well drink it, being as you’ve paid for it.- personal organizer
- personal pronoun
- personals
- personal shopper
- personal space
- personal stereo
- personal trainer
- persona non grata
- personification
- personify
- personnel
- personnel carrier
- person-to-person
- perspective
- Perspex
- perspicacious
- perspicaciously
- perspicacity
- perspiration
- perspire
- persuade
- persuasion
- persuasive
- persuasively
- persuasiveness