chat
IPA: tʃˈæt
noun
- (countable, uncountable) Informal conversation.
- A conversation to stop an argument or settle a situation.
- An exchange of text or voice messages in real time through a computer network, resembling a face-to-face conversation.
- (Internet) A chat room.
- (metonymically, typically with definite article, video games) The entirety of users in a chat room or a single member thereof.
- Any of various small Old World passerine birds in the muscicapid tribe Saxicolini or subfamily Saxicolinae that feed on insects.
- Any of several small Australian honeyeaters in the genus Epthianura.
- A group of goblins.
- A small potato, such as is given to swine.
- (mining, local use) Mining waste from lead and zinc mines.
- (Britain, Australia, New Zealand, World War I military slang) A louse (small, parasitic insect).
- Alternative form of chaat [Any savory snack, sold from a roadside stall in India, or served as a starter in an Indian restaurant.]
- Acronym of cultural-historical activity theory.
verb
- To be engaged in informal conversation.
- To talk more than a few words.
- (transitive) To talk of; to discuss.
- To exchange text or voice messages in real time through a computer network, as if having a face-to-face conversation.
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Examples of "chat" in Sentences
- The chatting was unceasing.
- Thanks for the aid with the chat
- It will say the value in the chat box.
- The podcast is simple banter and general chat.
- He dislikes chatting and being waken by a phone.
- No amount of chat will ever restore their virility.
- I forgot the name of the chat program and the link.
- I have taken the matter of chat to the administrator.
- This is what you call a chat with dad in the Oval Office.
- This is what you call a chat with dad in the oval office.
- During the intermission, men gather on the stage chatting.
- The stated purpose of the chat room is to insult people in the room.
- Most of this chat is about last January, and I want to bring a vehicle in in September.
- I use the word chat because our conversations were characterized by a silent code: keep it pseudo-lite.
- Monitor and record all popular Instant Messenger chat or web chat* on your local network automatically and secretly!
- Inviting others into the chat is as simple as sending them a human-readable URL, and nobody has to sign up or answer an invitation email.
- I don't want to imply that you're only writing female characters because that scene that we hear at the top of our chat is a torturous interrogation scene undertaken by the FBI.
- I use the term chat, but really the underlying protocol is XMPP, formerly referred to as Jabber, but calling it your XMPP provider would be the same as calling your email provider your SMTP/POP/IMAP provider; while true, it's just not true in any way that helps the conversation. data portability