chat 音標拼音: [tʃ'æt]
n . 閑談
vi . 閑談,聊天
閑談閑談,聊天
chat n 1 :
an informal conversation [
synonym : {
chat }, {
confab },
{
confabulation }, {
schmooze }, {
schmoose }]
2 :
birds having a chattering call [
synonym : {
New World chat },
{
chat }]
3 :
songbirds having a chattering call [
synonym : {
Old World chat },
{
chat }]
v 1 :
talk socially without exchanging too much information ; "
the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze " [
synonym :
{
chew the fat }, {
shoot the breeze }, {
chat }, {
confabulate },
{
confab }, {
chitchat }, {
chit -
chat }, {
chatter }, {
chaffer },
{
natter }, {
gossip }, {
jaw }, {
claver }, {
visit }]
Chat \
Chat \ (
ch [
a ^]
t ),
v .
i . [
imp . &
p .
p . {
Chatted };
p .
pr . &
vb .
n . {
Chatting }.] [
From {
Chatter }. [
root ]
22 .]
To talk in a light and familiar manner ;
to converse without form or ceremony ;
to gossip . --
Shak .
[
1913 Webster ]
To chat a while on their adventures . --
Dryden .
Syn :
To talk ;
chatter ;
gossip ;
converse .
[
1913 Webster ]
Chat \
Chat \,
v .
t .
To talk of . [
Obs .]
[
1913 Webster ]
Chat \
Chat \,
n .
1 .
Light ,
familiar talk ;
conversation ;
gossip .
[
1913 Webster ]
Snuff ,
or fan ,
supply each pause of chat ,
With singing ,
laughing ,
ogling ,
and all that .
--
Pope .
[
1913 Webster ]
2 . (
Zool .)
A bird of the genus {
Icteria },
allied to the warblers ,
in America .
The best known species are the yellow -
breasted chat ({
Icteria viridis }),
and the long -
tailed chat ({
Icteria longicauda }).
In Europe the name is given to several birds of the family {
Saxicolid [
ae ]},
as the {
stonechat },
and {
whinchat }.
[
1913 Webster ]
{
Bush chat }. (
Zool .)
See under {
Bush }.
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1913 Webster ]
Chat \
Chat \,
n .
1 .
A twig ,
cone ,
or little branch .
See {
Chit }.
[
1913 Webster ]
2 .
pl . (
Mining )
Small stones with ore .
[
1913 Webster ]
{
Chat potatoes },
small potatoes ,
such as are given to swine .
[
Local .]
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1913 Webster ]
111 Moby Thesaurus words for "
chat ":
babble ,
babblement ,
bavardage ,
be closeted with ,
bibble -
babble ,
blab ,
blabber ,
blah -
blah ,
blather ,
blether ,
blethers ,
bull session ,
bullshit ,
burble ,
cackle ,
caquet ,
caqueterie ,
causerie ,
chatter ,
chew the fat ,
chin ,
chitter -
chatter ,
clack ,
clatter ,
colloque ,
colloquy ,
compare ,
confab ,
confabulate ,
confabulation ,
conversation ,
converse ,
coze ,
cozy chat ,
dialogue ,
dish ,
dither ,
entice ,
flirt with ,
friendly chat ,
gab ,
gabble ,
gam ,
gas ,
gibber ,
gibble -
gabble ,
go on ,
gossip ,
guff ,
gush ,
haver ,
heart -
to -
heart ,
heart -
to -
heart talk ,
hot air ,
idle talk ,
induce ,
inveigle ,
jabber ,
jaw ,
lallygag ,
little talk ,
lure ,
make conversation ,
mere talk ,
natter ,
nonsense talk ,
palaver ,
parley ,
patter ,
persuade ,
pour forth ,
prate ,
prating ,
prattle ,
prevail upon ,
prittle -
prattle ,
proposition ,
prose ,
ramble on ,
rap ,
rap session ,
rattle ,
rattle on ,
reel off ,
run on ,
seduce ,
shoot the breeze ,
small talk ,
smatter ,
spout ,
spout off ,
talk ,
talk away ,
talk nonsense ,
talk on ,
talkee -
talkee ,
tempt ,
tete -
a -
tete ,
tinkle ,
tittle -
tattle ,
twaddle ,
twattle ,
twiddle ,
twitter ,
visit ,
waffle ,
yak ,
yakkety -
yak ,
yammer ,
yap ,
yarn Any system that allows any number of
logged -in users to have a typed , real -time , on -line
conversation 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
one -to -one ) messages .
Some early chat systems (in use 1998 ) include {IRC }, {ICQ } and
Palace }. More recent alternatives include {MSN Messenger }
and {Google Talk }.
Chat systems have given rise to a distinctive style combining
the immediacy of talking with all the precision (and
verbosity ) that written language entails . It is difficult to
communicate inflection , though conventions have arisen to help
with this .
The conventions of chat systems include special items of
jargon , generally abbreviations meant to save typing , which
are not used orally . E .g . {BCNU }, {BBL }, {BTW }, {CUL },
FWIW }, {FYA }, {FYI }, {IMHO }, {OT }, {OTT }, {TNX }, {WRT },
WTF }, {WTH }, {}, {}, {BBL }, {HHOK }, {NHOH }, {ROTFL },
AFK }, {b4 }, {TTFN }, {TTYL }, {OIC }, {re }.
Much of the chat style is identical to (and probably derived
from ) {Morse code } jargon used by ham -radio amateurs since the
1920s , and there is , not surprisingly , some overlap with {TDD }
jargon . Most of the jargon was in use in {talk } systems .
Many of these expressions are also common in {Usenet } {news }
and {electronic mail } and some have seeped into popular
culture , as with {emoticons }.
The {MUD } community uses a mixture of {emoticons }, a few of
the more natural of the old -style {talk mode } abbreviations ,
and some of the "social " list above . In general , though ,
MUDders express a preference for typing things out in full
rather than using abbreviations ; this may be due to the
relative youth of the MUD cultures , which tend to include many
touch typists . Abbreviations specific to MUDs include :
FOAD }, ppl (people ), THX (thanks ), UOK ? (are you OK ?).
Some {BIFF }isms (notably the variant spelling "d00d ") and
aspects of {ASCIIbonics } appear to be passing into wider use
among some subgroups of MUDders and are already pandemic on
chat } systems in general .
See also {hakspek }.
Suck article "Screaming in a Vacuum "
http ://suck .com /daily /96 /10 /23 /)}.
2006 -05 -31 )
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