Word Finder - behave

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To conduct (oneself) well, or in a given way.

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You need to behave yourself, young lady.

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To act, conduct oneself in a specific manner; used with an adverbial of manner.

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He behaves like a child whenever she's around.

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To conduct, manage, regulate (something).

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To act in a polite or proper way.

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His mother threatened to spank him if he didn't behave.

I will teach you afresh, unless you behave better.

He did not know how to behave with her.

Resolved to behave as naturally as she could, she stripped and turned up the shower as hot as she could tolerate.

It is equally clear that there is a broad analogy between the kind of characters on which systematists often have to rely for the separation of species and those which Mendelian workers have shown to behave in accordance with the Mendelian theories of mosaic inheritance with segregation.

For her sake, he made an effort to behave, but he truly loved the openings she gave him.

Most behave as if they believed that their prospects for life would be ruined if they should do it.

Thorianite, however, contains no silica, and until it is shown that metallic oxides behave in the same way this explanation must be accepted with reserve.

But it seems impossible to doubt that in many cases ants behave in a manner that must be considered intelligent, that they can learn by experience and that they possess memory.

A weak, giddy woman of no stability of character, her success turned her head and caused her to behave with insolence and impropriety, in strong contrast with Catherine's quiet dignity under her misfortunes.

If the magnetization is parallel to the major axis, and the lengths of the major and minor axes are 2a and 2C, the poles are situated at a distance equal to 3a from the centre, and the magnet will behave externally like a simple solenoid of length 3a.

I promise to behave.

The emperor even permitted Jewish wholesale merchants, notables and their sons, to wear swords (January 2, 1782), and especially insisted that Christians should behave in a friendly manner towards Jews."

We must be content to treat the aether as a plenum, which places it in a class by itself; and we can thus recognize that it may behave very differently from matter, though in some manner consistent with itself - a remark which is fundamental in the modern theory.

Only then did she remember how she must behave at a ball, and tried to assume the majestic air she considered indispensable for a girl on such an occasion.

Systems which are generally unsaturated compounds, often of considerable stability, and behave as nuclei; these compounds constitute a well-individualized class exhibiting closer affinities to benzenoid substances than to the open-chain series.

Did you behave like that six months ago?

If you want me to behave myself, we're going to have to stop this.

It is noteworthy, however, that although the manner in which the prey is stung (for example) is on the whole similar in the case of the members of any given species - that is to say, all the wasps of the species behave in very much the same manner - yet there are minor variations in detail.

How does it become a man to behave toward this American government to-day?

They are yellowish-red solids, which behave as weak bases, their salts undergoing hydrolytic dissociation in aqueous solution.

And teach me how to behave?

When the germans first arrived in France, German soldiery tried to behave in a civilized manner.

Females do not always allow other fawns to suckle, often they behave aggressively toward them.

Why don't the other hydrogen halides behave in the same way?

And if it's just idiotic, then it never hurts to behave better than an idiot.

But it is just hopelessly naive to expect the US to behave routinely like some sort of global philanthropist.

The Synod thereafter unanimously resolved to rebuke him, and to admonish him to behave orderly for the future.

Host Jon Stewart's monolog was gently satirical without ever straying into controversy, while the various winners seemed at pains to behave themselves.

Just remember to behave politely and all should go well.

She gave him his love of music and schooled him in all the proper ways a noble man should behave.

At the bottom of the fermented liquor the cells often obtain fatty contents and thick walls, and behave as resting cells (chlamydospores).

If Y and Z are groups which behave very differently, then there is apparently no tautomerism and a definite formula can be given to the compound.

The polyps behave like tiny sea anemones with stinging cells to capture the even smaller life in the plankton.

Just what does make a man behave the way he does and so impervious to the feelings of others.

Many of the children mis behave, as they do not understand the program.

Can an untrue story tell the truth about human nature or how we should behave?

Stock market volatility is therefore of serious concern as investors, faced with financial turbulence, may behave in wholly irrational ways.

Many materials behave both like elastic solids and viscous fluids, a phenomenon referred to as viscoelastic properties.

Contains plant extracts with natural sterols, these behave in a similar way to steroids but without the associated side effects.

A person who bullies may behave in this intimidating way in order to get attention or to make them feel superior to others.

I like my gadgets and I can generally get them to behave when they inevitably become temperamental.

A bunch of arrogant twits who behave as if they had every right to do anything.

A person shall not behave in a disorderly manner in the library or use violent, abusive or obscene language therein.

The work region and ScrollBars in the MainWindow behave identically to the work region and ScrollBars in the ScrolledWindow widget.

With such vile xenophobia expressed against Germany, how can we expect English football fans to behave differently?

In their general behaviour towards oxidizing agents the primary glycols behave very similarly to the ordinary primary alcohols (q.v.), but the secondary and tertiary glycols break down, yielding compounds with a smaller carbon content.

These they display before her, posing and performing extraordinary antics in her presence exactly as cock birds behave towards their hens.

In the second and third books Clement enters into particulars, and explains how the Christian following the Logos or Reason ought to behave in the various circumstances of life - in eating, drinking, furnishing a house, in dress, in the relations of social life, in the care of the body, and similar concerns, and concludes with a general description of the life of a Christian.

They behave exactly like the corresponding symbols in arithmetic; and it follows from this that whatever " meaning " is attached to the symbols of quantity, ordinary algebra includes arithmetic, or at least an image of it.

Host Jon Stewart 's monolog was gently satirical without ever straying into controversy, while the various winners seemed at pains to behave themselves.