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verbchats, chatted, chatting tʃattʃæt [no object]1Talk in a friendly and informal way. she chatted to her mother on the phone every day Example sentencesExamples - I got chatting to one of the police officers, who looked like she'd been having quite a bad week.
- We sat around on benches, swings and garden furniture chatting about all manner of things.
- I spent the evening chatting and had a great time, so my need for chatter was fulfilled finally.
- The girls who were watching cars earlier in the evening are there, chatting to some friends.
- As such, I've spent the bulk of the day alternating working with chatting to mates.
- On the way back I got chatting to the driver, and I asked if we could go through Richmond Park.
- A couple of years ago I was chatting to somebody at work, and I asked where she lived.
- I like how you can walk into a bar at midnight and people are still sober, still happily chatting away.
- At home she likes it cosy: snuggling up on a sofa with a book, chatting to friends.
- The thing is that fellow smokers tend to get chatting in a far less formal way than when in the conference hall.
- A friend rung, we chatted for a while then she began talking about some of the events in New York.
- I was lying down on my bed, my roommate still in the room chatting quietly with a friend.
- The giant woman sat with them for a while, bartering and chatting in a friendly and motherly way.
- It only takes a couple of morsels of chocolate for them all to start chatting again.
- Minutes before he arrived, Charlotte had been sober, and was chatting to her friend.
- These days she's far more concerned with chatting to residents and getting things done.
- We were with all our friends and danced and chatted and had a really lovely time.
- The chaplain will be asked to work for a couple of hours a week chatting and listening to customers and staff.
- It was on our first anniversary that I was chatting to my mother on the phone.
- Today he was chatting with a friend, so I just nodded and smiled and reached for my keys.
Synonyms talk, gossip, chatter, chitter-chatter, speak, converse, have a conversation, engage in conversation, tittle-tattle, prattle, jabber, jibber-jabber, babble, prate, go on, run on communicate British talk nineteen to the dozen Scottish & Irish slabber informal gas, have a confab, jaw, chew the rag, chew the fat, yap, yak, yackety-yak, yabber, gabber, yatter, yammer, powwow British informal natter, witter, rabbit, chunter, waffle, have a chinwag, chinwag North American informal shoot the breeze, shoot the bull, visit Australian/New Zealand informal mag formal confabulate archaic twaddle, twattle, clack, claver - 1.1 Exchange messages online in real time with one or more simultaneous users of a computer network.
I have chatted to a few women on the Net Example sentencesExamples - This is true whether they're using the Web to research a school project, play games, or chat with friends.
- My wife doesn't really go near the computer except to chat with friends.
- The updated version adds a bluescreen effect so you can display any image behind you while chatting, and fun house-style effects.
- Chat with Paul, for the next few days, in our discussion forum.
- SMS and instant messaging services form an interesting special case of chatting, usually being terse yet accessible anywhere.
- A 16-year-old girl told of her more active relationship in chatting.
- My children, and most of their friends, spend more time chatting online than talking on the phone.
- This spring, he coauthored a study comparing the way teens speak and chat online.
- It's hoped the public awareness campaign will encourage youngsters to think twice about who they're chatting to online.
- She says she spends about two hours a day chatting online.
- We look forward to seeing and chatting with you online tonight!
- He spends two to three hours a day chatting.
- Lastly, all residents would be able to chat or surf away in parks, linking the great outdoors with technology.
- You can instantly call up streams of photos while you are chatting (using text) with others.
- Create a chat room - invite people for one hour a week to chat with you about your area of expertise.
- Users can also chat with viewers via an integrated chat feature.
- Unable to meet their friends in person, they chat online instead.
- All players choose a screen name and are able to chat online during their hands.
- Nor is inflection, tone or humour easily communicated by texting, chatting or email.
- In the two years she has been chatting she has met seven men who she first got to know in chatrooms.
nounPlural chats tʃattʃæt 1An informal conversation. mass noun that's enough chat for tonight Example sentencesExamples - A couple of long chats with my Mum, and an email conversation with a fellow law student, helped me set some issues aside, if not settle them.
- That night we had a decent chat and said our goodbyes to each other through our conversation.
- Some of his characters were informed by the chats he had with random passengers during long train journeys.
- Last week you were having cosy, informal chats in their office, now you're getting the brush-off whenever you try to instigate a meeting.
- There is much wisdom in our group experience, so take advantage of camping conferences, online chats, and visits to neighboring camps.
- I have lost my talent of having ultra-long telephone chats.
- A cup of tea and a chat in the community centre was greatly appreciated.
- Still, it's the season for heart-to-heart chats and just-for-two dinners by candlelight.
- How do they like to communicate - by e-mail, voicemail or an informal chat when you drop by their office?
- Informal chats with officials revealed that windsurfing is one of the fastest growing aquatic sports in the world.
- The group is informal and gives the opportunity for parents to have a chat, while their children play with other kids.
- It was simply a relationship I had with a friend who was an experienced magician, regular chats and conversation with someone who was a good friend.
- Many of the topics discussed in the chat were later elaborated in the conference system.
- There have been many similar wine-fuelled conversations, conspiratorial chats over coffee, or long-winded email dialogues.
- But she was really nice and came and sat at our table and had a chat and it was very informal.
- If you would like to give some time to furthering the caring work of the centre, ring to get an appointment for an informal chat.
- The first story admits of a little frivolity, as we see in the conversation of the girls and the bawdy chat of Graham.
- Their various discussions, arguments and chats had laid the foundation for open and honest communication.
- From fraternal chats to nuptial discussions, video-conferencing offers a solution to almost all aspects of personal and professional life.
- After our chat, Trevor was decent enough to drive me back into San Francisco.
Synonyms talk, conversation, gossip, chatter, chitter-chatter, heart-to-heart, tête-à-tête, powwow, blether, blather conference, discussion, dialogue, exchange Indian adda informal jaw, gas, confab, gabber British informal natter, chinwag, rabbit Scottish & Northern English informal crack North American informal rap, bull session, gabfest Australian informal convo formal confabulation rare colloquy - 1.1 The online exchange of messages in real time with one or more simultaneous users of a computer network.
online chat has been widely accepted by average Internet users count noun you can have four simultaneous chats online at once Example sentencesExamples - Chat provides a more real-time discussion format.
- In chat, she will often change the way that she describes herself.
- You can search the database by characteristic or member name, contact people through anonymous e-mail and have private chats.
- Requests for functionality ranging from live chat to online stores to sophisticated content management functionality may not help the client achieve their business goals.
- The danger of people using a 'work' computer for non-approved use such as instant messaging chat are well documented.
- Features such as chat, polls, and interactive lessons as options presented with the same weight as more traditional textbased resources.
- Unlike e-mail, which can cost up to 85% less than a phone call, chat doesn't save much.
- MSN Messenger (like many similar programs) has offered video chat for years.
- Web-based chat usually leaves me cold, I much perfer a standalone client.
- We want to find information or communicate with our friends through e-mail and chat.
- The former lets parents block Web sites with inappropriate subject matter, as well as chats using predatory language.
- There's even a built-in text chat, just in case you want to mess with er communicate with the person whose desktop you just latched onto.
- Provide multiple ways (1-800 number, email, live chat) to connect with your company.
- Their main role in Internet chat is to form a mercenary authority infrastructure in otherwise unregulated chat rooms.
- MSN Messenger 4.7 (which comes standard with Windows XP) does not log chats.
- Starting from the bottom and working up, you'll need to get chat working first.
- Courses can contain activities such as discussion forums, student journals, quizzes, surveys, assignments, chats and workshops.
- Broadband players can use voice chat through the USB headset.
- We will also be supporting the headset for voice chat.
- The online play supports both dial up and broadband, with broadband users having the option of using a USB headset for chat.
Phrasal Verbs Engage someone in flirtatious conversation. the waiter attempted to chat her up Example sentencesExamples - He decided to sit near me and do his version of chatting me up.
- Two girls join your table and start chatting you up.
- My friend goes over to speak to her, and starts chatting her up.
- ‘He wouldn't let her go out for meals because she might be chatted up by other people or she might chat them up,’ he explained.
- I'm sure that the pharmacist was chatting me up.
- He went over to the video clerk and started chatting her up.
- A young solicitor I'd talked to at the bus stop had asked me for a drink in a pub, but I'd not gone, and a handsome young sailor had chatted me up on a train, but I'd not agreed to meet him again either.
- Am I going to regret it or should I keep chatting her up?
- When she chatted me up, I thought she was taking the mickey.
- And they're not chatting you up because they think you're attractive.
Synonyms flirt with, make up to, make advances to, make overtures to, romance
Origin Middle English: shortening of chatter. In medieval times chat was formed as a shorter version of chatter, which itself started life as an imitation of the sound made by people chatting away, rather as jabber (Late Middle English) and twitter (Late Middle English) imitated the sound they described. The chattering classes are liberal, well-educated people, often working in the media, who are fond of expressing their views on any and every subject. This name for them has been around since at least the early 1980s. The success of the website called Twitter has led to heated debate among users as to whether what they do should be called to twitter or to tweet (mid 19th century)—yet another word imitating the sound of birds. See also jargon
Rhymes at, bat, brat, cat, cravat, drat, expat, fat, flat, frat, gat, gnat, hat, hereat, high-hat, howzat, lat, mat, matt, matte, Montserrat, Nat, outsat, pat, pit-a-pat, plait, plat, prat, Rabat, rat, rat-tat, Sadat, sat, scat, Sebat, shabbat, shat, skat, slat, spat, splat, sprat, stat, Surat, tat, that, thereat, tit-for-tat, vat, whereat nounPlural chats tʃattʃæt 1often in combination A small Old World songbird of the thrush family, with black, white, and brown coloration and a harsh call. Saxicola and other genera, family Turdidae: numerous species. See also bushchat, stonechat, whinchat Example sentencesExamples - Old World warblers and chats are an excellent representative system to test these hypotheses.
- I also caught the only Kentucky Warbler of the day, a Yellow-breasted Chat.
2with modifier Any of a number of small songbirds with harsh calls. a New World warbler that typically has a yellow or pink breast (genera Icteria and Granatellus, family Parulidae). an Australian songbird related to the honeyeaters, the male of which is either mainly yellow or boldly marked (genera Ephthianura and Ashbyia, family Ephthianuridae). Example sentencesExamples - Breeding productivity for riparian associated songbirds (e.g., Song Sparrow, Yellow Warbler, and Yellow-breasted Chat) are at levels high enough to maintain viable populations.
- I could wait until late May and maybe find a mourning warbler or a yellow-breasted chat.
Origin Late 17th century: probably imitative of its call. verbCHattʃæt [no object]1Talk in a friendly and informal way. she chatted to her mother on the phone every day Example sentencesExamples - We were with all our friends and danced and chatted and had a really lovely time.
- It only takes a couple of morsels of chocolate for them all to start chatting again.
- Today he was chatting with a friend, so I just nodded and smiled and reached for my keys.
- At home she likes it cosy: snuggling up on a sofa with a book, chatting to friends.
- The thing is that fellow smokers tend to get chatting in a far less formal way than when in the conference hall.
- As such, I've spent the bulk of the day alternating working with chatting to mates.
- It was on our first anniversary that I was chatting to my mother on the phone.
- I was lying down on my bed, my roommate still in the room chatting quietly with a friend.
- We sat around on benches, swings and garden furniture chatting about all manner of things.
- The girls who were watching cars earlier in the evening are there, chatting to some friends.
- The chaplain will be asked to work for a couple of hours a week chatting and listening to customers and staff.
- These days she's far more concerned with chatting to residents and getting things done.
- A friend rung, we chatted for a while then she began talking about some of the events in New York.
- The giant woman sat with them for a while, bartering and chatting in a friendly and motherly way.
- I spent the evening chatting and had a great time, so my need for chatter was fulfilled finally.
- A couple of years ago I was chatting to somebody at work, and I asked where she lived.
- Minutes before he arrived, Charlotte had been sober, and was chatting to her friend.
- I like how you can walk into a bar at midnight and people are still sober, still happily chatting away.
- On the way back I got chatting to the driver, and I asked if we could go through Richmond Park.
- I got chatting to one of the police officers, who looked like she'd been having quite a bad week.
Synonyms talk, gossip, chatter, chitter-chatter, speak, converse, have a conversation, engage in conversation, tittle-tattle, prattle, jabber, jibber-jabber, babble, prate, go on, run on - 1.1 Exchange messages online in real time with one or more simultaneous users of a computer network.
I keep getting messages popping up on my screen from people wanting to chat Example sentencesExamples - This spring, he coauthored a study comparing the way teens speak and chat online.
- She says she spends about two hours a day chatting online.
- Chat with Paul, for the next few days, in our discussion forum.
- Nor is inflection, tone or humour easily communicated by texting, chatting or email.
- Lastly, all residents would be able to chat or surf away in parks, linking the great outdoors with technology.
- We look forward to seeing and chatting with you online tonight!
- Create a chat room - invite people for one hour a week to chat with you about your area of expertise.
- My wife doesn't really go near the computer except to chat with friends.
- All players choose a screen name and are able to chat online during their hands.
- In the two years she has been chatting she has met seven men who she first got to know in chatrooms.
- Unable to meet their friends in person, they chat online instead.
- You can instantly call up streams of photos while you are chatting (using text) with others.
- SMS and instant messaging services form an interesting special case of chatting, usually being terse yet accessible anywhere.
- It's hoped the public awareness campaign will encourage youngsters to think twice about who they're chatting to online.
- He spends two to three hours a day chatting.
- A 16-year-old girl told of her more active relationship in chatting.
- My children, and most of their friends, spend more time chatting online than talking on the phone.
- This is true whether they're using the Web to research a school project, play games, or chat with friends.
- Users can also chat with viewers via an integrated chat feature.
- The updated version adds a bluescreen effect so you can display any image behind you while chatting, and fun house-style effects.
nounCHattʃæt 1An informal conversation. the perfect place for loads of cocktails and plenty of chat Example sentencesExamples - Their various discussions, arguments and chats had laid the foundation for open and honest communication.
- If you would like to give some time to furthering the caring work of the centre, ring to get an appointment for an informal chat.
- Some of his characters were informed by the chats he had with random passengers during long train journeys.
- After our chat, Trevor was decent enough to drive me back into San Francisco.
- There is much wisdom in our group experience, so take advantage of camping conferences, online chats, and visits to neighboring camps.
- A cup of tea and a chat in the community centre was greatly appreciated.
- That night we had a decent chat and said our goodbyes to each other through our conversation.
- It was simply a relationship I had with a friend who was an experienced magician, regular chats and conversation with someone who was a good friend.
- How do they like to communicate - by e-mail, voicemail or an informal chat when you drop by their office?
- A couple of long chats with my Mum, and an email conversation with a fellow law student, helped me set some issues aside, if not settle them.
- I have lost my talent of having ultra-long telephone chats.
- Many of the topics discussed in the chat were later elaborated in the conference system.
- From fraternal chats to nuptial discussions, video-conferencing offers a solution to almost all aspects of personal and professional life.
- Last week you were having cosy, informal chats in their office, now you're getting the brush-off whenever you try to instigate a meeting.
- But she was really nice and came and sat at our table and had a chat and it was very informal.
- The first story admits of a little frivolity, as we see in the conversation of the girls and the bawdy chat of Graham.
- The group is informal and gives the opportunity for parents to have a chat, while their children play with other kids.
- Informal chats with officials revealed that windsurfing is one of the fastest growing aquatic sports in the world.
- There have been many similar wine-fuelled conversations, conspiratorial chats over coffee, or long-winded email dialogues.
- Still, it's the season for heart-to-heart chats and just-for-two dinners by candlelight.
Synonyms talk, conversation, gossip, chatter, chitter-chatter, heart-to-heart, tête-à-tête, powwow, blether, blather - 1.1 The online exchange of messages in real time with one or more simultaneous users of a computer network.
join me for a live online chat Wednesday at 1400 hours Example sentencesExamples - Broadband players can use voice chat through the USB headset.
- We want to find information or communicate with our friends through e-mail and chat.
- Requests for functionality ranging from live chat to online stores to sophisticated content management functionality may not help the client achieve their business goals.
- Courses can contain activities such as discussion forums, student journals, quizzes, surveys, assignments, chats and workshops.
- The danger of people using a 'work' computer for non-approved use such as instant messaging chat are well documented.
- Chat provides a more real-time discussion format.
- Provide multiple ways (1-800 number, email, live chat) to connect with your company.
- We will also be supporting the headset for voice chat.
- Starting from the bottom and working up, you'll need to get chat working first.
- MSN Messenger (like many similar programs) has offered video chat for years.
- You can search the database by characteristic or member name, contact people through anonymous e-mail and have private chats.
- The online play supports both dial up and broadband, with broadband users having the option of using a USB headset for chat.
- The former lets parents block Web sites with inappropriate subject matter, as well as chats using predatory language.
- Unlike e-mail, which can cost up to 85% less than a phone call, chat doesn't save much.
- MSN Messenger 4.7 (which comes standard with Windows XP) does not log chats.
- Their main role in Internet chat is to form a mercenary authority infrastructure in otherwise unregulated chat rooms.
- Web-based chat usually leaves me cold, I much perfer a standalone client.
- Features such as chat, polls, and interactive lessons as options presented with the same weight as more traditional textbased resources.
- In chat, she will often change the way that she describes herself.
- There's even a built-in text chat, just in case you want to mess with er communicate with the person whose desktop you just latched onto.
Phrasal Verbs 1Engage someone in flirtatious conversation. Example sentencesExamples - And they're not chatting you up because they think you're attractive.
- When she chatted me up, I thought she was taking the mickey.
- My friend goes over to speak to her, and starts chatting her up.
- I'm sure that the pharmacist was chatting me up.
- ‘He wouldn't let her go out for meals because she might be chatted up by other people or she might chat them up,’ he explained.
- He decided to sit near me and do his version of chatting me up.
- A young solicitor I'd talked to at the bus stop had asked me for a drink in a pub, but I'd not gone, and a handsome young sailor had chatted me up on a train, but I'd not agreed to meet him again either.
- He went over to the video clerk and started chatting her up.
- Am I going to regret it or should I keep chatting her up?
- Two girls join your table and start chatting you up.
Synonyms flirt with, make up to, make advances to, make overtures to, romance - 1.1Talk persuasively to someone, especially with a particular motive.
I chatted up the editor at the press club Example sentencesExamples - This does not happen by laying down the law on first contact - any more than it would with another human being - you have to court them, chat them up, get them on your side.
- When the opposition forcibly occupied the secretary's room to register its protest over being denied an office, he took it in his stride and calmly proceeded to chat them up.
Origin Middle English: shortening of chatter. nountʃætCHat 1often in combination A small Old World songbird of the thrush family, with black, white, and brown coloration and a harsh call. Saxicola and other genera, subfamily Turdinae, family Muscicapidae: numerous species. See also stonechat, whinchat Example sentencesExamples - I also caught the only Kentucky Warbler of the day, a Yellow-breasted Chat.
- Old World warblers and chats are an excellent representative system to test these hypotheses.
2with modifier Any of a number of small songbirds with harsh calls. an Australian songbird related to the honeyeaters, the male of which is either mainly yellow or boldly marked (genera Ephthianura and Ashbyia, family Ephthianuridae) a New World warbler that typically has a yellow or pink breast (genera Icteria and Granatellus, subfamily Parulinae, family Emberizidae) Example sentencesExamples - I could wait until late May and maybe find a mourning warbler or a yellow-breasted chat.
- Breeding productivity for riparian associated songbirds (e.g., Song Sparrow, Yellow Warbler, and Yellow-breasted Chat) are at levels high enough to maintain viable populations.
Origin Late 17th century: probably imitative of its call. |