| 单词 | chat |
| 释义 | chat (once / 326 pages) 1vn 2n When you chat, you have a brief, casual conversation. You might chat with your mail carrier when she delivers a package to your door. If you're in a talkative mood, you can chat with your roommate, the bus driver, your boss, and a drugstore cashier all before lunchtime. The conversation that happens when you chat is also called a chat: "Let's sit down and have a chat sometime this week." The earliest meaning of chat was "frivolous talk," which now is more likely to be called chatter or chitchat. WORD FAMILYchat: chats, chatted, chatting, chatty+/chatty: chattier, chattiest, chattily USAGE EXAMPLESAbove the noise, a man I’ll call Ivan, a new friend, began chatting with me about something he was working on. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) A few hours in, Mills chatted with Lindsey Jacobs, his on-set dresser—the person who wrangled the furniture and the props. The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) During a hospitalization in 1954, he often chatted to Ezra Pound, who was a friend—but not actually there. The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) 1 1v talk socially without exchanging too much information Syn|Hypo|Hyper chaffer, chatter, chew the fat, chit-chat, chitchat, claver, confab, confabulate, gossip, jaw, natter, shoot the breeze, visit jawbone, schmoose, schmooze, shmoose, shmooze talk idly or casually and in a friendly way converse, discourse carry on a conversation 2n an informal conversation 2Syn|Hypo|Hyper confab, confabulation, schmoose, schmooze causerie, chin wag, chin wagging, chin-wag, chin-wagging, chit chat, chit-chat, chitchat, gab, gabfest, gossip, small talk, tittle-tattle light informal conversation for social occasions conversation the use of speech for informal exchange of views or ideas or information etc. 1n birds having a chattering call Syn|Hypo|Hyper New World chat Icteria virens, yellow-breasted chat American warbler noted for imitating songs of other birds New World warbler, wood warbler small bright-colored American songbird with a weak unmusical song 2n songbirds having a chattering call Syn|Hypo|Hyper Old World chat Saxicola torquata, stonechat common European chat with black plumage and a reddish-brown breast Saxicola rubetra, whinchatbrown-and-buff European songbird of grassy meadows thrush songbirds characteristically having brownish upper plumage with a spotted breast |
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