CHAT


Meaning of CHAT in English

I. noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a chat show British English , a talk show American English (= in which famous or interesting people talk to someone about themselves )

She was on the chat show to publicize her new novel.

chat line

chat room

chat show host (= person who asks the questions on the show )

a TV chat show host

chat show

a TV chat show host person who asks the questions on the show

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

brief

A brief chat with auctioneer Robert Smedley gave a good insight into a three-wheel Berkeley 160.

They had a brief chat that Will remembers well.

cosy

Instead John Major invites 200 carefully selected friends along for a cosy chat about how rosy the Tory garden is.

These cosy chats often last longer than the lecture itself, but I don't mind.

By now, an artificially cosy chat with an old school friend would have been irrelevant, even an irritant.

friendly

Quite often, all that is required is a friendly chat to put your mind at rest.

good

Usually she loved a good chat , specially with people from the services.

It's not just a question of having a good old chat about the wild 30's.

informal

They came, not during committee meetings in Whitehall, but after informal chats at ministers' houses during the Easter holiday.

Allow a minute or two of informal chat to relax both of you.

However he has at least promised the bleary-eyed hacks that they can attend an informal chat over breakfast.

Some channels are obviously dedicated to specific topics, for example, but most are merely informal chat limes.

When we are engaged in an informal social chat we are not usually trying to express ourselves succinctly or precisely.

It might be an informal chat with some one or it might be a formal meeting with a group of people.

Although we provided theoretical and practical training in peace-building, the women gained a lot from their informal chats .

I saw a psychiatrist often during my stay, up to once a day, although the sessions seemed more like informal chats .

little

His mood had softened after his little chat with Kirsty.

The vice president who had called him into his office for a little chat nodded.

Sit down, my dear, I'd like to have a little chat with you.

She was always seeking him out for one of her little chats .

I think I shall have to postpone our little chat about the job.

long

But they talk quite often on the telephone and, when they meet, have long quasi-philosophical chats .

We had a long chat and got to know one another.

They had a long chat in Afrikaans.

We had a long and interesting chat over coffee at a Yonge Street restaurant.

Friday Had a long chat with Dad about which service we should attend.

nice

So we had a nice chat .

online

This led to a new kind of online chat service with the generic name of instant messaging.

■ NOUN

room

Across the land, every night, teenagers are yakking online in chat rooms with friends and Net acquaintances.

If you are brand new, you can go to the beginning genealogy chat room .

Joining a chat channel, chat room on chat forum is like arriving at a party.

In Internet chat rooms , backpackers debate carrying guns and pepper spray.

Or you might even run to a chat room .

Now it's on every chat room and on all of the talk-radio shows.

The third kind of traffic centre are the meeting areas where people socialize, such as chat rooms .

At any given time, these chat rooms are full.

show

The little feller, now 72, was in Newcastle to record a Tyne Tees Television chat show .

In January I announced that a chat show host's spouse was to appear in EastEnders.

Mr Andreotti has been cleared in two trials, and is now a chat show regular with a dry wit.

The new faces do include chat show host Chrystal Rose and Dily Braimoh.

He will step down before the election, a decision he announced on a chat show .

I think she's trying to do the same now with the chat show .

Its as much a part of being a modern-day star as appearing on chat shows or signing autographs.

Once reviled figures are being rehabilitated on chat shows .

■ VERB

enjoy

The two men met yesterday at Tory command in another nearby marginal, Lewisham West, and enjoyed a chat .

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

He didn't want anything in particular. He just stopped for a chat .

I'm actually glad you're late - it gave Ken and me a chance to have a good chat .

Mary took Tina in the other room for a private chat .

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Allow a minute or two of informal chat to relax both of you.

He was a very nice man and said we could come in for a chat .

Informal chats with guests provide an excellent opportunity to meet consumers and answer their questions about farming and food production.

She is a natural chat artiste and has pulled the Oprah act of walking into the crowd in speeches before.

Sit down, my dear, I'd like to have a little chat with you.

You and your companion can learn french, practise yoga - or simply have a coffee and a chat .

II. verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

amiably

And finally Rachel swept them from the kitchen and down the stairs, chatting amiably as she went.

Vice President Gore and Tipper Gore were dancing the night away, chatting amiably as they worked the room.

They were here, in this restaurant, and Fernando was chatting amiably with the head waiter.

Taking a breath, Calipari smiles and wades into the throng, chatting amiably as he obliges each request.

My tour guide is moving right along, chatting amiably , pointing out the sights.

Before leaving on Friday, I try to chat amiably with the librarians.

away

They resumed their conversation, chatting away late into the evening.

I wanted to stay all afternoon, chatting away , and it seemed like he might have let me.

They would chat away to her about their day until they got down to the schoolwork.

It is not heart-felt, and the two opponents will happily chat away out of sight of the cameras afterwards.

Maud and I have seen you down there chatting away to the empty water.

You two looked very cosy, chatting away out on the deck.

Most of the tables supported big red-and-white parasols beneath which an assortment of elderly ladies were chatting away .

She is a lovely lady as well as a great physio, and we chatted away as she worked on my legs.

happily

Everyone chatted happily , except Susan, who sat alone, not looking up from the magazine she was reading.

It is not heart-felt, and the two opponents will happily chat away out of sight of the cameras afterwards.

But Christopher Taylor will happily chat to you in any one of 18 languages.

The conductor was still chatting happily .

Elaine was now chatting happily with Francis, and Bernice had learnt more about the strangely anachronistic civilization of Arcadia.

They left sticking close to their father and chatting happily to the crowds.

on

She seemed quite oblivious to the route I was taking as she chatted on about her holiday plans for Ibiza.

She chatted on as I tried to read the title of her book Katie was holding.

Princesse Mathilde chatted on , pretending nothing was amiss.

She noticed his fingers drumming on the table as his fiancée - ex-fiancée - chatted on and on.

He chatted on about the landscape, enthusing at the sights that Ruth had already seen.

to

The one I mostly chat to is the biology teacher.

She'd have been glad of some one to chat to.

■ NOUN

friend

They may sit down at a table to chat to a friend .

To take Fodor's nice example, imagine that you are chatting to an old friend .

The next day I was chatting to friends - Joy and Alan Byne.

Mrs O had been chatting to a close friend for over an hour.

■ VERB

begin

Peter came in and began to chat me up.

After the routine admiration of children, garden, and so on, they began to chat about the office.

She suppressed an embarrassed chortle as the men began to chat about the paper.

sit

A companion who would sit and chat with her, like she and Maisie used to chat?

Jack put the book to one side and the four of them sat chatting over a bottle of wine.

They sat chatting to his clerk, until his door opened and two men emerged.

Mrs Manners would cook a large early dinner and they would sit and chat about the coming year.

We sat and chatted for a couple of hours, but don't ask me what they looked like.

We'd sit around chatting for a bit then go on to whatever was happening that evening.

Each of us sat rather self-consciously chatting with our partners, who displayed varying degrees of rotundity.

She had been knitting a similar pair when she sat chatting with Rosa in Dinard.

start

Sylvie started to chat about films she'd seen recently.

stop

I just can't stop chatting to the paper.

Smiling residents stroll along a cozy, old-fashioned street; the police chief stops and chats with passing motorists.

The talkative driver hadn't stopped chatting from the moment Mark had entered the cab.

try

Some are sufficiently realistic that young males try to chat up the female personas they represent.

Before leaving on Friday, I try to chat amiably with the librarians.

Don't try to chat up a girl after eating a kebab.

She was trying to chat up the boy who was serving.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Harry chatted to a couple of Australian tourists as we waited for the show to begin.

The girls were sitting on the steps, chatting.

The two women chatted all evening.

We drank our coffee and chatted about our experiences.

You can chat to Brad Pitt live this evening.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Ever so subtly, still chatting navigation with me, Neil accommodates, reeling Rachel in at just the right time.

However, time passed pleasantly enough, chatting to other members of my group and absorbing the atmosphere of the building.

Meanwhile, over breakfast, we chatted of this and that.

Taking a breath, Calipari smiles and wades into the throng, chatting amiably as he obliges each request.

That would be her neighbour wanting to chat for a few minutes.

We were alone, with a dilatory guard outside chatting with a secretary.

When Dexter met the superintendent twenty minutes later, Blanche stood outside the Inside Out office still chatting to the security guard.

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