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How to pronounce chat in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms chaffer, chatter, chew the fat, chit-chat, chitchat, claver, confab, confabulate, gossip, jaw, natter, shoot the breeze, visit
Type of converse, discourse
Has types jawbone, schmoose, schmooze, shmoose, shmooze
Type Words
Synonyms old world chat
Type of thrush
Has types whinchat, stonechat, saxicola torquata, saxicola rubetra
Type Words
Synonyms new world chat
Type of wood warbler, new world warbler
Has types icteria virens, yellow-breasted chat
Type Words
Synonyms confab, confabulation, schmoose, schmooze
Type of conversation
Has types tittle-tattle, chin-wagging, chin wag, chin wagging, chit-chat, chit chat, chitchat, gab, gabfest, small talk, chin-wag, causerie, gossip
Derivation chatty

Examples of chat

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An online Web chat Wednesday will discuss how to help kids make healthy choices.
From the orlandosentinel.com
Big mistake, as it turns out the only person they want to video chat with is me.
From the washingtonpost.com
Cigarettes and underage smokers will be discussed in an online Web chat Tuesday.
From the latimes.com
We'll start the chat at 1 p.m. You can start sending your questions for Ken now.
From the dispatch.com
They met in Santa Rosa for what they reckoned would be a short chat over coffee.
From the sfgate.com
It's under the post I put up every Wednesday night reminding people of the chat.
From the stltoday.com
The tools we used included Basecamp, Google spreadsheets, Skype, email and chat.
From the guardian.co.uk
Volunteers from the community to just chat and spend time with elderly patients.
From the guardian.co.uk
We began to chat and discovered our mutual love of hockey, cattle dogs, and NPR.
From the post-gazette.com
More examples
  • An informal conversation
  • Chew the fat: talk socially without exchanging too much information; "the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze"
  • New World chat: birds having a chattering call
  • CHAT-FM is a Canadian radio station that broadcasts a country music format at 94.5 FM in Medicine Hat, Alberta. The station is owned by Jim Pattison Group.
  • Chats (formerly sometimes known as Chat-thrushes) are a group of small Old World insectivorous birds formerly classed as members of the thrush family Turdidae, but now considered Old World flycatchers.
  • Choline acetyltransferase (abbreviated "ChAT") is an enzyme that is synthesized within the body of a neuron. It is then transferred to the nerve terminal via axoplasmic flow. ...
  • Chat is a British weekly women's magazine, published through the IPC Media group, and edited by Gilly Sinclair. The magazine includes mostly real life stories.
  • Chat is a term for fragments of siliceous rock, limestone, and dolomite waste rejected in the lead-zinc milling operations that accompanied lead-zinc mining in the first half of the twentieth century. ...
  • Online chat can refer to any kind of communication over the Internet, but is primarily meant to refer to direct one-on-one chat or text-based group chat (formally also known as synchronous conferencing), using tools such as instant messengers, Internet Relay Chat, talkers and possibly MUDs. ...