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CHAT
chat, confab, confabulation, schmooze, schmoose
(noun) an informal conversation
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Verb
chat (third-person singular simple present chats, present participle chatting, simple past and past participle chatted)
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.
Noun
chat (countable and uncountable, plural chats)
(uncountable) Informal conversation.
A conversation to stop an argument or settle situations.
(totum pro parte, typically with definite article, video gaming) The entirety of users in a chatroom or a single member thereof.
An exchange of text or voice messages in real time through a computer network, resembling a face-to-face conversation.
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.
Etymology 2
Noun
chat
A small potato, such as is given to swine.
Etymology 3
Noun
chat (plural chats)
(mining, local use) Mining waste from lead and zinc mines.
Etymology 4
Noun
chat (plural chats)
(British, Australia, NZ, WWI military slang) A louse (small, parasitic insect).
Etymology 5
Noun
chat (plural chats)
Alternative form of chaat
Anagrams
• ACTH, Cath, cath, cath., tach
Noun
CHAT (uncountable)
Acronym of cultural-historical activity theory.
Anagrams
• ACTH, Cath, cath, cath., tach
Source: Wiktionary
Chat, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Chatted; p. pr. & vb. n. Chatting.] Etym: [From Chatter. *22.]
Definition: To talk in a light and familiar manner; to converse without form or ceremony; to gossip. Shak. To chat a while on their adventures. Dryden.
Syn.
– To talk; chatter; gossip; converse.
Chat, v. t.
Definition: To talk of. [Obs.]
Chat, n.
1. Light, familiar talk; conversation; gossip. Snuff, or fan, supply each pause of chat, With singing, laughing, ogling, and all that. Pope.
2. (Zoöl.)
Definition: A bird of the genus Icteria, allied to the warblers, in America. The best known species are the yelow-breasted chat (I. viridis), and the long chat (I. longicauda). In Europe the name is given to several birds of the family Saxicolidæ, as the stonechat, and whinchat. Bush chat. (Zoöl.) See under Bush.
Chat, n.
1. A twig, cone, or little branch. See Chit.
2. pl. (Mining)
Definition: Small stones with ore. Chat potatoes, small potatoes, such as are given to swine. [Local.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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