chat
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Систем
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Abbreviation of chatter. The bird sense refers to the sound of its call.
Verb
chat (third-person singular simple present chats, present participle chatting, simple past and past participle chatted)
- To be engaged in informal conversation.
- She chatted with her friend in the cafe.
- I like to chat over a coffee with a friend.
- To talk more than a few words.
- I met my old friend in the street, so we chatted for a while.
- (transitive) To talk of; to discuss.
- They chatted politics for a while.
- 2014, Lenny Smith, Choices, page 43:
- We would get totally stoned and usually drunk too and chat a load of nonsense into the small hours.
- To exchange text or voice messages in real time through a computer network, as if having a face-to-face conversation.
- Do you want to chat online later?
Translations
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- Преводе у наставку треба проверити и уметнути изнад у одговарајуће табеле превода. Видите инструкције на Викиречник:Унос § Преводи.
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Noun
chat (countable and uncountable, plural chats)
- (countable, uncountable) Informal conversation.
- 1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess[1]:
- Reg liked a chat about old times and we used to go and have a chinwag in the pub.
- It'd be cool to meet up again soon and have a quick chat.
- A conversation to stop an argument or settle a situation.
- An exchange of text or voice messages in real time through a computer network, resembling a face-to-face conversation.
- (Internet) A chat room.
- 1997, Meg Booker, The Insider's Guide to America Online (page 256)
- While there are chats for various interest groups (games, Internet, sports), you can also […]
- 1997, Meg Booker, The Insider's Guide to America Online (page 256)
- (metonymically, typically with definite article, video games) The entirety of users in a chat room or a single member thereof.
- The Chat just made a joke about my poor skillz.
- Any of various small Old World passerine birds in the muscicapid tribe Lua грешка in Модул:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template.. or subfamily Lua грешка in Модул:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template.. that feed on insects.
- Any of several small Australian honeyeaters in the genus Epthianura.
Derived terms
Translations
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- Преводе у наставку треба проверити и уметнути изнад у одговарајуће табеле превода. Видите инструкције на Викиречник:Унос § Преводи.
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Etymology 2
Compare chit (“small piece of paper”), and chad.[1]
Noun
chat
References
Etymology 3
Origin unknown.
Noun
chat (plural chats)
- (mining, local use) 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.
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 441:
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Etymology 4
From thieves' cant.
Alternative forms
Noun
chat (plural chats)
- (British, Australia, NZ, World War I military slang) A louse (small, parasitic insect).
- 1977, Mary Emily Pearce, Apple Tree Lean Down, page 520:
- 'Do officers have chats, then, the same as us?'
- 'Not the same, no. The chats they got is bigger and better, with pips on their shoulders and Sam Browne belts.'
- 2007, How Can I Sleep when the Seagull Calls? →ISBN 978-1-4357-1811-1, page 18:
- May a thousand chats from Belgium crawl under their fingers as they write.
- 2013, Graham Seal, The Soldiers' Press: Trench Journals in the First World War, →ISBN, page 149:
- Trench foot was a nasty and potentially fatal foot disease commonly caused by these conditions, in which chats or body lice were the bane of all.
- 1977, Mary Emily Pearce, Apple Tree Lean Down, page 520:
Etymology 5
Noun
chat (plural chats)
- Alternative form of chaat
Anagrams
Antillean Creole
Etymology
Noun
chat
Dutch
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Noun
chat m (plural chats, diminutive chatje n)
Derived terms
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
chat
- first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of chatten
- imperative of chatten
Anagrams
Etymology 1
From Middle French chat, from Стари Француски chat, from Late Latin cattus.
Pronunciation
Noun
chat m (plural chats, feminine chatte)
- cat (feline)
- 1910, Henry-D. Davray & B. Kozakiewicz (tr.), La Guerre dans les airs, translation of The War in the Air by H. G. Wells, page 335:
- Soudain, d’un seul élan, cela se précipita sur lui, avec un miaulement plaintif et la queue droite. C’était un jeune chat, menu et décharné, qui frottait sa tête contre les jambes de Bert, en ronronnant.
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- (male) cat, tom, tomcat
- tag, tig (children’s game)
Derived terms
- à bon chat, bon rat
- à ne pas mettre un chat dehors
- absent le chat, les souris dansent
- acheter chat en poche
- appeler un chat un chat
- arbre à chat
- avoir d’autres chats à fouetter
- avoir un chat dans la gorge
- chat à neuf queues
- chat bai
- chat de gouttière
- chat de jungle
- chat des marais
- chat domestique
- chat échaudé craint l’eau froide
- chat forestier
- chat forestier européen
- chat haret
- chat perché
- chat sauvage
- chat sauvage d’Europe
- chat sauvage européen
- chat sylvestre
- chat-huant
- chat-tigre
- chataire
- chatière
- chaton
- chatonner
- chatte
- chattemite
- chatterie
- comme chien et chat
- c’est le chat qui se mord la queue
- donner sa langue au chat
- donner sa langue au chat
- il ne faut pas réveiller le chat qui dort
- il n’y a pas de quoi fouetter un chat
- il n’y a pas un chat
- jeu du chat et de la souris
- jouer au chat et à la souris
- la nuit, tous les chats sont gris
- langue de chat
- langue-de-chat
- le chat parti, les souris dansent
- les chats ne font pas des chiens
- les chiens ne font pas des chats
- mousse du chat
- pas de chat
- pied de chat
- quand le chat n’est pas là, les souris dansent
- syndrome du cri du chat
Related terms
See also
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
Noun
chat m (plural chats)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “chat” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Haitian Creole
Etymology
Noun
chat
- cat
- (colloquial) thief
- pussy (genitals)
Iban
Etymology
Noun
chat
- paint (substance)
Irish
Pronunciation
Noun
chat m
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
Noun
chat f (plural #)
- chat (informal conversation via computer)
Derived terms
See also
Etymology 2
From Somali [Терм?].
Pronunciation
Noun
chat m (plural #)
Middle French
Etymology
From Стари Француски chat, from Late Latin cattus.
Noun
chat m (plural chats or chatz, feminine singular chatte, feminine plural chattes)
- cat (animal)
Descendants
- Француски: chat
Norwegian Nynorsk
Alternative forms
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
chat m (definite singular chaten, indefinite plural chatar, definite plural chatane)
References
Old French
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Late Latin cattus.
Noun
chat m (oblique plural chaz or chatz, nominative singular chaz or chatz, nominative plural chat)
- cat (animal)
Related terms
Descendants
Polish
Etymology 1
Unadapted borrowing из Енглески chat.
Pronunciation
Noun
chat m inan
Declension
Derived terms
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Pronunciation
Noun
chat f
Further reading
- chat in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- chat in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Страна категорија
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing из Енглески chat.
Pronunciation
Noun
chat m (plural chats)
Romanian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing из Енглески chat.
Noun
chat n (uncountable)
- chat Галицијски
Declension
Etymology
Pronunciation
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Noun
chat m (plural chats)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “chat” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
Tagalog
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing из Енглески chat.
Noun
chat
- chat Галицијски
Derived terms
Turkish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing из Енглески chat.
Pronunciation
Noun
chat (definite accusative chati, plural chatler)