behave meaning
EN
[bɪˈheɪv] [-eɪv] 
US WBehave
- "(Someone's Always Telling You How To) Behave" is a single from Chumbawamba, different version than the song "Behave" off of their album Shhh, with full lyrics, a faster tempo and no trumpet or samples.
- According to the band: "Not much loved by Southern (our then distributors),
- The line "Mickey Mouse grew up a cow" comes from the David Bowie song "Life on Mars?", with the addition of the line "you should hear the things they say about Minnie now."
- VerbSGbehavesPRbehavingPT, PPbehavedPREbe-
- (reflexive) To conduct (oneself) well, or in a given way.
- You need to behave yourself, young lady.
- (intransitive) To act, conduct oneself in a specific manner; used with an adverbial of manner.
- He behaves like a child whenever she's around.
- How did the students behave while I was gone?
- My laptop has been behaving erratically ever since you borrowed it.
- (obsolete, transitive) To conduct, manage, regulate (something).
- (intransitive) To act in a polite or proper way.
- His mother threatened to spank him if he didn't behave.
- (reflexive) To conduct (oneself) well, or in a given way.
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- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- Unlike the Cowardly Lion, his American counterpart from thirty years earlier, he not only suffers from faint-heartedness, but from behaving accordingly.
- His mother threatened to spank him if he didn't behave himself.
- Manganism has been known about since the 19th century, when miners exposed to ores containing manganese, a silvery metal, began to totter, slur their speech and behave like someone inebriated.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- As Jasmine told me emphatically, "facts" are knowledge -- of correct practices and their meanings -- and provide the antidote to the comess of mixed ways of knowing and of behaving.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of behave in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Morphemes
- Prefixes
- Words by prefix
- Words prefixed with be-
- Words prefixed with be-
- Words by prefix
- Prefixes
- Verbs
- Intransitive verbs
- Transitive verbs
- Intransitive verbs
- Morphemes
Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "behave" is a morpheme, more specifically, a prefixe. It's also a verb, more specifically, an intransitive verb and a transitive verb.