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 )
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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 )
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a TV chat show host
chat show
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a TV chat show host person who asks the questions on the show
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
brief
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A brief chat with auctioneer Robert Smedley gave a good insight into a three-wheel Berkeley 160.
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They had a brief chat that Will remembers well.
cosy
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Instead John Major invites 200 carefully selected friends along for a cosy chat about how rosy the Tory garden is.
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These cosy chats often last longer than the lecture itself, but I don't mind.
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By now, an artificially cosy chat with an old school friend would have been irrelevant, even an irritant.
friendly
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Quite often, all that is required is a friendly chat to put your mind at rest.
good
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Usually she loved a good chat , specially with people from the services.
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It's not just a question of having a good old chat about the wild 30's.
informal
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They came, not during committee meetings in Whitehall, but after informal chats at ministers' houses during the Easter holiday.
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Allow a minute or two of informal chat to relax both of you.
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However he has at least promised the bleary-eyed hacks that they can attend an informal chat over breakfast.
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Some channels are obviously dedicated to specific topics, for example, but most are merely informal chat limes.
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When we are engaged in an informal social chat we are not usually trying to express ourselves succinctly or precisely.
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It might be an informal chat with some one or it might be a formal meeting with a group of people.
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Although we provided theoretical and practical training in peace-building, the women gained a lot from their informal chats .
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I saw a psychiatrist often during my stay, up to once a day, although the sessions seemed more like informal chats .
little
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His mood had softened after his little chat with Kirsty.
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The vice president who had called him into his office for a little chat nodded.
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Sit down, my dear, I'd like to have a little chat with you.
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She was always seeking him out for one of her little chats .
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I think I shall have to postpone our little chat about the job.
long
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But they talk quite often on the telephone and, when they meet, have long quasi-philosophical chats .
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We had a long chat and got to know one another.
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They had a long chat in Afrikaans.
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We had a long and interesting chat over coffee at a Yonge Street restaurant.
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Friday Had a long chat with Dad about which service we should attend.
nice
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So we had a nice chat .
online
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This led to a new kind of online chat service with the generic name of instant messaging.
■ NOUN
room
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Across the land, every night, teenagers are yakking online in chat rooms with friends and Net acquaintances.
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If you are brand new, you can go to the beginning genealogy chat room .
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Joining a chat channel, chat room on chat forum is like arriving at a party.
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In Internet chat rooms , backpackers debate carrying guns and pepper spray.
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Or you might even run to a chat room .
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Now it's on every chat room and on all of the talk-radio shows.
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The third kind of traffic centre are the meeting areas where people socialize, such as chat rooms .
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At any given time, these chat rooms are full.
show
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The little feller, now 72, was in Newcastle to record a Tyne Tees Television chat show .
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In January I announced that a chat show host's spouse was to appear in EastEnders.
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Mr Andreotti has been cleared in two trials, and is now a chat show regular with a dry wit.
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The new faces do include chat show host Chrystal Rose and Dily Braimoh.
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He will step down before the election, a decision he announced on a chat show .
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I think she's trying to do the same now with the chat show .
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Its as much a part of being a modern-day star as appearing on chat shows or signing autographs.
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Once reviled figures are being rehabilitated on chat shows .
■ VERB
enjoy
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The two men met yesterday at Tory command in another nearby marginal, Lewisham West, and enjoyed a chat .
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He didn't want anything in particular. He just stopped for a chat .
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I'm actually glad you're late - it gave Ken and me a chance to have a good chat .
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Mary took Tina in the other room for a private chat .
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Allow a minute or two of informal chat to relax both of you.
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He was a very nice man and said we could come in for a chat .
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Informal chats with guests provide an excellent opportunity to meet consumers and answer their questions about farming and food production.
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She is a natural chat artiste and has pulled the Oprah act of walking into the crowd in speeches before.
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Sit down, my dear, I'd like to have a little chat with you.
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You and your companion can learn french, practise yoga - or simply have a coffee and a chat .
II. verb
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■ ADVERB
amiably
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And finally Rachel swept them from the kitchen and down the stairs, chatting amiably as she went.
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Vice President Gore and Tipper Gore were dancing the night away, chatting amiably as they worked the room.
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They were here, in this restaurant, and Fernando was chatting amiably with the head waiter.
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Taking a breath, Calipari smiles and wades into the throng, chatting amiably as he obliges each request.
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My tour guide is moving right along, chatting amiably , pointing out the sights.
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Before leaving on Friday, I try to chat amiably with the librarians.
away
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They resumed their conversation, chatting away late into the evening.
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I wanted to stay all afternoon, chatting away , and it seemed like he might have let me.
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They would chat away to her about their day until they got down to the schoolwork.
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It is not heart-felt, and the two opponents will happily chat away out of sight of the cameras afterwards.
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Maud and I have seen you down there chatting away to the empty water.
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You two looked very cosy, chatting away out on the deck.
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Most of the tables supported big red-and-white parasols beneath which an assortment of elderly ladies were chatting away .
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She is a lovely lady as well as a great physio, and we chatted away as she worked on my legs.
happily
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Everyone chatted happily , except Susan, who sat alone, not looking up from the magazine she was reading.
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It is not heart-felt, and the two opponents will happily chat away out of sight of the cameras afterwards.
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But Christopher Taylor will happily chat to you in any one of 18 languages.
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The conductor was still chatting happily .
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Elaine was now chatting happily with Francis, and Bernice had learnt more about the strangely anachronistic civilization of Arcadia.
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They left sticking close to their father and chatting happily to the crowds.
on
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She seemed quite oblivious to the route I was taking as she chatted on about her holiday plans for Ibiza.
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She chatted on as I tried to read the title of her book Katie was holding.
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Princesse Mathilde chatted on , pretending nothing was amiss.
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She noticed his fingers drumming on the table as his fiancée - ex-fiancée - chatted on and on.
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He chatted on about the landscape, enthusing at the sights that Ruth had already seen.
to
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The one I mostly chat to is the biology teacher.
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She'd have been glad of some one to chat to.
■ NOUN
friend
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They may sit down at a table to chat to a friend .
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To take Fodor's nice example, imagine that you are chatting to an old friend .
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The next day I was chatting to friends - Joy and Alan Byne.
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Mrs O had been chatting to a close friend for over an hour.
■ VERB
begin
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Peter came in and began to chat me up.
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After the routine admiration of children, garden, and so on, they began to chat about the office.
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She suppressed an embarrassed chortle as the men began to chat about the paper.
sit
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A companion who would sit and chat with her, like she and Maisie used to chat?
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Jack put the book to one side and the four of them sat chatting over a bottle of wine.
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They sat chatting to his clerk, until his door opened and two men emerged.
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Mrs Manners would cook a large early dinner and they would sit and chat about the coming year.
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We sat and chatted for a couple of hours, but don't ask me what they looked like.
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We'd sit around chatting for a bit then go on to whatever was happening that evening.
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Each of us sat rather self-consciously chatting with our partners, who displayed varying degrees of rotundity.
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She had been knitting a similar pair when she sat chatting with Rosa in Dinard.
start
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Sylvie started to chat about films she'd seen recently.
stop
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I just can't stop chatting to the paper.
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Smiling residents stroll along a cozy, old-fashioned street; the police chief stops and chats with passing motorists.
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The talkative driver hadn't stopped chatting from the moment Mark had entered the cab.
try
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Some are sufficiently realistic that young males try to chat up the female personas they represent.
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Before leaving on Friday, I try to chat amiably with the librarians.
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Don't try to chat up a girl after eating a kebab.
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She was trying to chat up the boy who was serving.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Harry chatted to a couple of Australian tourists as we waited for the show to begin.
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The girls were sitting on the steps, chatting.
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The two women chatted all evening.
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We drank our coffee and chatted about our experiences.
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You can chat to Brad Pitt live this evening.
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Ever so subtly, still chatting navigation with me, Neil accommodates, reeling Rachel in at just the right time.
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However, time passed pleasantly enough, chatting to other members of my group and absorbing the atmosphere of the building.
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Meanwhile, over breakfast, we chatted of this and that.
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Taking a breath, Calipari smiles and wades into the throng, chatting amiably as he obliges each request.
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That would be her neighbour wanting to chat for a few minutes.
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We were alone, with a dilatory guard outside chatting with a secretary.
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When Dexter met the superintendent twenty minutes later, Blanche stood outside the Inside Out office still chatting to the security guard.