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be verb

  /bi/ , /biː/ , /bɪ/ , [bi(ː)] , [biː] , [bɪj]
  • (auxiliary) Used with past participles of verbs to form the passive voice.
  • (formal) Used with to-infinitives of verbs to express intent, obligation, appropriateness, or relative future occurrence.
  • Used to declare the subject and object identical or equivalent.
  • Used to indicate that the subject has the qualities described by a noun or noun phrase.
  • Used to indicate that the subject has the qualities described by an adjective or prepositional phrase.
  • To occur, to take place.
 ser, estar
  • (rare, and, regional, chiefly, in the past tense) Used to link two noun clauses: a day of the week, recurring date, month, or other specific time (on which the event of the main clause took place) and a period of time indicating how long ago that day was. [from 15th c.]
 ser, estar, ter, a, dar
  • (now, usually, literary) To exist; to have real existence, to be alive.
 ser, existir, haver, estar
  • To occupy a place.
 estar, ser
  • (often, impersonal, with it as a dummy subject) Used to indicate ambient conditions such as weather, light, noise or air quality.
 estar, fazer, ser
  • (in perfect tenses) Elliptical form of "be here", "go to and return from" or similar, also extending to certain other senses of "go".
 estar, ter, ser
  • Used with past participles of certain intransitive verbs to form the perfect aspect.
 ser, ter, estar
  • (with a cardinal numeral) Used to state the age of a subject in years.
 ter, estar
  • Used to link a subject to a measurement.
 ter, ser

being noun

  /ˈbiŋ/ , /ˈbiɪŋ/ , /ˈbiːŋ/ , /ˈbiːɪn(ɡ)/ , /ˈbiːɪŋ/
  • A living creature.
 ser, criatura
  • The state or fact of existence, consciousness, or life, or something in such a state.
 existência

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spread verb

  /spɹɛd/
  • (transitive) To disperse, to scatter or distribute over a given area. [from 13th c.]
 espalhar, difundir
  • (transitive) To disseminate; to cause to proliferate, to make (something) widely known or present. [from 14th c.]
  • (intransitive) To take up a larger area or space; to expand, be extended. [from 14th c.]
 espalhar, alastrar
  • (transitive) To smear, to distribute in a thin layer. [from 16th c.]
 espalhar, passar
  • (transitive) To extend (individual rays, limbs etc.); to stretch out in varying or opposing directions. [from 13th c.]
 estender

spread noun

  /spɹɛd/
chimia
  • (trading, finance) The purchase of a futures contract of one delivery month against the sale of another futures delivery month of the same commodity.
 espalhamento

spreading noun

  /ˈspɹɛdɪŋ/
  • The act by which something is spread.
 disseminação
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