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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
chat
n 1: an informal conversation [syn: chat, confab,
confabulation, schmooze, schmoose]
2: birds having a chattering call [syn: New World chat,
chat]
3: songbirds having a chattering call [syn: Old World chat,
chat]
v 1: talk socially without exchanging too much information; "the
men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze" [syn:
chew the fat, shoot the breeze, chat, confabulate,
confab, chitchat, chit-chat, chatter, chaffer,
natter, gossip, jaw, claver, visit]
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Chat \Chat\ (ch[a^]t), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Chatted; p. pr. &
vb. n. Chatting.] [From Chatter. [root]22.]
To talk in a light and familiar manner; to converse without
form or ceremony; to gossip. --Shak.
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To chat a while on their adventures. --Dryden.
Syn: To talk; chatter; gossip; converse.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Chat \Chat\, v. t.
To talk of. [Obs.]
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4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Chat \Chat\, n.
1. Light, familiar talk; conversation; gossip.
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Snuff, or fan, supply each pause of chat,
With singing, laughing, ogling, and all that.
--Pope.
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2. (Zool.) A bird of the genus Icteria, allied to the
warblers, in America. The best known species are the
yellow-breasted chat (Icteria viridis), and the
long-tailed chat (Icteria longicauda). In Europe the
name is given to several birds of the family
Saxicolid[ae], as the stonechat, and whinchat.
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Bush chat. (Zool.) See under Bush.
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5. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Chat \Chat\, n.
1. A twig, cone, or little branch. See Chit.
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2. pl. (Mining) Small stones with ore.
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Chat potatoes, small potatoes, such as are given to swine.
[Local.]
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6. The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018) |
chat
<chat, messaging> Any system that allows any number of
logged-in users to have a typed, real-time, on-line
conversation via a network.
The medium of chat is descended from talk, but the terms
(and the media) have been distinct since at least the early
1990s. talk is prototypically for a small number of people,
generally with no provision for channels. In chat
systems, however, there are many channels in which any
number of people can talk; and users may send private
(one-to-one) messages.
Some early chat systems (in use 1998) include IRC, ICQ and
Palace. More recent alternatives include MSN Messenger
and Google Talk.
Chat systems have given rise to a distinctive style combining
the immediacy of talking with all the precision (and
verbosity) that written language entails. It is difficult to
communicate inflection, though conventions have arisen to help
with this.
The conventions of chat systems include special items of
jargon, generally abbreviations meant to save typing, which
are not used orally. E.g. BCNU, BBL, BTW, CUL,
FWIW, FYA, FYI, IMHO, OT, OTT, TNX, WRT,
WTF, WTH, , , BBL, HHOK, NHOH, ROTFL,
AFK, b4, TTFN, TTYL, OIC, re.
Much of the chat style is identical to (and probably derived
from) Morse code jargon used by ham-radio amateurs since the
1920s, and there is, not surprisingly, some overlap with TDD
jargon. Most of the jargon was in use in talk systems.
Many of these expressions are also common in Usenet news
and electronic mail and some have seeped into popular
culture, as with emoticons.
The MUD community uses a mixture of emoticons, a few of
the more natural of the old-style talk mode abbreviations,
and some of the "social" list above. In general, though,
MUDders express a preference for typing things out in full
rather than using abbreviations; this may be due to the
relative youth of the MUD cultures, which tend to include many
touch typists. Abbreviations specific to MUDs include:
FOAD, ppl (people), THX (thanks), UOK? (are you OK?).
Some BIFFisms (notably the variant spelling "d00d") and
aspects of ASCIIbonics appear to be passing into wider use
among some subgroups of MUDders and are already pandemic on
chat systems in general.
See also hakspek.
<Suck article "Screaming in a Vacuum">.
(2006-05-31)
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Thesaurus Results for chat:
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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 |
babble, babblement, bavardage, be closeted with, bibble-babble, blab, blabber, blah-blah, blather, blether, blethers, bull session, bullshit, burble, cackle, caquet, caqueterie, causerie, chatter, chew the fat, chin, chitter-chatter, clack, clatter, colloque, colloquy, compare, confab, confabulate, confabulation, conversation, converse, coze, cozy chat, dialogue, dish, dither, entice, flirt with, friendly chat, gab, gabble, gam, gas, gibber, gibble-gabble, go on, gossip, guff, gush, haver, heart-to-heart, heart-to-heart talk, hot air, idle talk, induce, inveigle, jabber, jaw, lallygag, little talk, lure, make conversation, mere talk, natter, nonsense talk, palaver, parley, patter, persuade, pour forth, prate, prating, prattle, prevail upon, prittle-prattle, proposition, prose, ramble on, rap, rap session, rattle, rattle on, reel off, run on, seduce, shoot the breeze, small talk, smatter, spout, spout off, talk, talk away, talk nonsense, talk on, talkee-talkee, tempt, tete-a-tete, tinkle, tittle-tattle, twaddle, twattle, twiddle, twitter, visit, waffle, yak, yakkety-yak, yammer, yap, yarn |
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