meaning of chat

1. To talk in a light and familiar manner; to converse without form or ceremony; to gossip.
2. To talk of.
3. Light, familiar talk; conversation; gossip.
4. A bird of the genus Icteria, allied to the warblers, in America. The best known species are the yellow-breasted chat (I. viridis), and the long-tailed chat (I. longicauda). In Europe the name is given to several birds of the family Saxicolidae, as the stonechat, and whinchat.
5. A twig, cone, or little branch. See Chit.
6. Small stones with ore.
7. chat tool, networking, messaging> 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
8. songbirds having a chattering call

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