# chat

Pronunciation: say "CHAT" /ˈt͡ʃæt/

## Verb

1. To talk in a friendly, informal way, sometimes about a particular subject.
   - Simple: To talk with someone in a relaxed, friendly way.
   - _The neighbors often chat over the garden fence at dusk._
   - _She chatted with the barista while waiting for her order._
4. To exchange text or voice messages in real time over a computer network, as if talking face to face.
   - Simple: To send and receive messages with someone online at the same time.
   - _We chat on the messaging app whenever she's traveling._
   - _During her lunch break, she chatted with her brother on a messaging app, typing back and forth about their weekend plans._
7. To speak nonsense or tell deliberate lies. *(slang)*
   - Simple: To talk nonsense or say things that are not true.
   - _He'll chat pure nonsense once he's had a few drinks._
   - _She accused him of chatting rubbish about her behind her back._

## Noun

2. A real-time exchange of text or voice messages over a network, or the online space where such messages are posted, as beside a live stream.
   - Simple: An online conversation using text or voice messages, or the place on screen where it happens.
   - _The team coordinated the launch through a group chat._
   - _A quick chat on the app settled the dispute in minutes._
3. Relaxed, informal conversation about everyday matters.
   - Simple: A friendly, relaxed talk about everyday things.
   - _They enjoyed a long chat about their weekend plans._
   - _A brief chat with her neighbor brightened the whole morning._
6. The people posting in a chat room or live stream's chat, considered as a group; also used to address them, like 'guys.'
   - Simple: The people writing messages in a live stream's chat, as a group. Streamers also call them 'chat.'
   - _The streamer thanked the chat for their support during the marathon._
   - _Chat erupted with laughter at the host's joke._
5. Any of several small, unrelated songbirds of Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia and the Americas, such as the stonechat, the crimson chat and the yellow-breasted chat.
   - Simple: One of several kinds of small songbird found in Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia and the Americas.
   - _A chat perched on the fencepost before darting after a moth._
   - _On our trip to central Australia we finally saw a crimson chat feeding among the desert flowers._
8. Another spelling of chaat: any of various tangy, spicy savory snacks from South Asia, often sold at street stalls. — Alternative form of chaat.
   - Simple: Another spelling of chaat: a spicy, tangy snack from India, often sold on the street.
   - _She picked up some tangy chat on the way home._
   - _Every evening the vendors served fresh chat near the temple._
9. A small potato. In Australia, a small new potato sold for cooking whole; formerly, an undersized potato fed to pigs.
   - Simple: A small potato, cooked whole as food in Australia, or in the past fed to pigs.
   - _Any potato smaller than a walnut counted as a chat and went into the pig bucket._
   - _When we dug the potatoes, we kept the big ones for the kitchen and boiled up the chats for the pigs._

## Other meanings

- (noun) A louse; a small parasitic insect infesting the body or clothing.
- (noun) Waste rock and gravel left over from lead and zinc mining.

## Origin

A short form of "chatter." As a bird name, it comes from the noise the bird makes when calling.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/chat (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).