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English

Pronunciation

IPA: /tʃæt/
An audio transcript can be found at en-us-chat.ogg
- Rhymes:English:-æt|Rhymes: -æt

Etymology 1

Abbreviation of chatter.

Verb

To be engaged in informal conversation.
To talk more than a few words.
To converse on a talk show.
To exchange text or voice messages in real time through a computer network, as if having a face-to-face conversation.

Translations

Finnish: ,
German: (formal) sich , (informal) , (dialectal) ,

Finnish:

German: sich , , ,

Finnish:

German: sich

Finnish:

German: sich

:
: , (1, 3); , (4), bavarder
: mongeta (interlocutor explicit) (1); ñemongeta (interlocutor implicit) (1); ñomongeta (to each other) (1)
: {{t-|ia|conversar|xs=Interlingua}}, {{t|ia|confabular|xs=Interlingua}} (1); {{t|ia|chattar|xs=Interlingua}} (4)
: , , (1); , por chat (4)
: ,
: , ; (Internet)
: mongetá (interlocutor explicit) (1); nhemongetá (interlocutor implicit) (1); nhomongetá (to each other) (1)

Noun

Informal conversation.
A conversation to stop an argument or settle situations.
An exchange of text or voice messages in real time through a computer network, resembling a face-to-face conversation.
A conversation on a talk show.
Any of various small Old World passerine birds in the subfamily Saxicolini that feed on insects.

Derived terms

Translations

Finnish: ,

German: {{t+|de|Schwatz|m}}, {{t+|de|Geplauder|n}}

Finnish:

German: {{t+|de|Gespräch|n}}

Finnish:

German: {{t-|de|Chat|m}}

Finnish:

German: {{t+|de|Gespräch|n}}

German: {{t+|de|Schmätzer|f}}

: {{t|bg|чат|sc=Cyrl}}
: ñomongeta (1)
: {{t-|ia|conversation|xs=Interlingua}}, {{t-|ia|confabulation|xs=Interlingua}} (1); chat (2)
: (1,3); , chat (3)
: , (1);
: ,
: {{t+|es|charla|f}}
: nhomongetá (1)

Etymology 2

Origin unknown.

Noun

In the Context of mining|Mining waste from lead and zinc mines.
* 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 441:
*: Frank had been looking at calcite crystals for a while now [...] among the chats or zinc tailings of the Lake County mines, down here in the silver lodes of the Vita Madre and so forth.

Translations

Finnish:

Category:Birds Category:Talking

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Cantonese

Number

chat

seven. → 七

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French

Etymology

Late Latin cattus.

Pronunciation

An audio transcript can be found at Fr-chat.ogg
IPA: /ʃa/

Noun

(male) cat, tom, tomcat
tag, tig (children's game)

Related terms

Irish

Pronunciation

IPA: lang=ga

Noun

cs:chat de:chat et:chat el:chat es:chat fa:chat fo:chat fr:chat fy:chat ga:chat gd:chat gl:chat ko:chat hy:chat io:chat id:chat it:chat lo:chat lt:chat hu:chat nl:chat ja:chat no:chat oc:chat ug:chat pl:chat pt:chat ro:chat ru:chat sk:chat fi:chat sv:chat ta:chat te:chat vi:chat tr:chat zh:chat

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English 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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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English 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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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Chat \Chat\, v. t.
To talk of. [Obs.]
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English 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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WordNet chat
n 1: an informal conversation [syn: confab, confabulation, schmooze,
schmoose]
2: birds having a chattering call [syn: New World chat]
3: songbirds having a chattering call [syn: Old World chat]
v : 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, confabulate,
confab, chitchat, chatter, chaffer, natter, gossip,
jaw, claver, visit]
[also: chatting, chatted]

Moby Dictionary
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

FOLDOC chat

Any system that allows any
number of logged-in users to have a typed, real-time, on-line
conversation, either by all users logging into the same
computer, or more commonly nowadays, 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 well known chat systems to date (1998) include IRC,
ICQ and Palace.

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., re, BCNU, BBL, BTW, CUL,
FWIW, FYA, FYI, IMHO, 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 jargan 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; specifically, MUD
respondents report use of BBL, BRB, LOL, b4, BTW,
WTF, TTFN, and WTH. The use of "re" or "rehi" is also
common; in fact, MUDders are fond of "re-" compounds and will
frequently "rehug" or "rebonk" (see bonk/oif) people. 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"
(http://www.suck.com/daily/96/10/23/)}.

(1998-01-25)