Caliche vs Chat - What's the difference?
caliche | chat |
(mineral) A crude form of sodium nitrate from South America; used as a fertilizer.
A layer of hard clay subsoil or sedimentary rock; hardpan.
* 1929 , US Bureau of Chemistry and Soils, Soil Survey of Potter County, Texas ,
* 1985 , Julie Behrend Weinberg, Growing Food In the High Desert Country ,
* 2011 , Hüseyin Yalçin, Ömer Bozkaya, Chapter 7: Sepiolite-Palygorskite Occurrences in Turkey'', Arieh Singer, Emilio Galan (editors), ''Developments in Palygorskite-Sepiolite Research ,
To be engaged in informal conversation.
To talk more than a few words.
To talk of; to discuss.
To exchange text or voice messages in real time through a computer network, as if having a face-to-face conversation.
Informal conversation.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=Foreword A conversation to stop an argument or settle situations.
An exchange of text or voice messages in real time through a computer network, resembling a face-to-face conversation.
Any of various small Old World passerine birds in the subfamily Saxicolini that feed on insects.
A small potato, such as is given to swine.
Mining waste from lead and zinc mines.
* 2006 , Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day , Vintage 2007, p. 441:
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* 1977 , Mary Emily Pearce, Apple Tree Lean Down , page 520:
* 2007 , How Can I Sleep when the Seagull Calls? (ISBN 978-1-4357-1811-1), page 18:
* 2013 , Graham Seal, The Soldiers' Press: Trench Journals in the First World War (ISBN 1137303263), page 149:
As nouns the difference between caliche and chat
is that caliche is (mineral) a crude form of sodium nitrate from south america; used as a fertilizer while chat is a chat, exchange of text or voice messages in real time, notably by internet.caliche
English
(wikipedia caliche)Noun
page 44,
- According to local well drillers, in wells drilled on the high plains a few hundred feet back from the caliche' escarpment or in other locations on the high plains in this area no hard '''caliche''' or white layer, such as would characterize a soft layer of high lime-carbonate content, is generally reached at a depth corresponding to the elevation of the ' caliche escarpment.
page 17,
- Having a layer of caliche' at depths of 16 inches and less really puts a damper on the garden site. The ' caliche does not allow roots to penetrate it (tree roots often take 10 years to break through a caliche layer) nor does this mineral allow water to drain.
page 186,
- Caliche in various forms, namely powdery, nodule, tube, fracture-infill, laminar crust, hard laminated crust (hardpan) and pisolitic crust, is widespread in the Mersin area in southern Turkey (Eren et al., 2008; Kadir and Eren, 2008).
Anagrams
* ----chat
English
(wikipedia chat)Etymology 1
Abbreviation of chatter . The bird sense refers to the sound of its call.Verb
(chatt)- She chatted with her friend in the cafe.
- I like to chat over a coffee with a friend.
- I met my old friend in the street, so we chatted for a while.
- They chatted politics for a while.
- Do you want to chat online later?
Noun
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Derived terms
* backchat * chatroom * chat up * stonechat * whinchatEtymology 2
Compare chit'' "small piece of paper", and ''chad''.William Safire, ''The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time , p. 43, Simon and Schuster, 2007 ISBN 1416587403.Noun
References
Etymology 3
Origin unknown.Noun
(en noun)- Frank had been looking at calcite crystals for a while now [...] among the chats or zinc tailings of the Lake County mines, down here in the silver lodes of the Vita Madre and so forth.
Etymology 4
From .Alternative forms
* chattNoun
(en noun)- 'Do officers have chats , then, the same as us?'
- 'Not the same, no. The chats they got is bigger and better, with pips on their shoulders and Sam Browne belts.'
- May a thousand chats from Belgium crawl under their fingers as they write.
- Trench foot'' was a nasty and potentially fatal foot disease commonly caused by these conditions, in which ''chats or body lice were the bane of all.