Meeting vs Chat - What's the difference?
meeting | chat |
(uncountable) The action of the verb to meet .
A gathering of people/parties for a purpose.
The people at such a gathering, as a collective.
An encounter between people, even accidental.
A place or instance of junction or intersection.
A religious service held by a charismatic preacher in small towns in the United States.
*1939 , (John Steinbeck), (The Grapes of Wrath) , p. 20:
*:You use ta give a good meetin' . I recollect one time you give a whole sermon walkin' around on your hands, yellin' your head off.
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 meeting and chat
is that meeting is (uncountable) the action of the verb to meet while chat is a chat, exchange of text or voice messages in real time, notably by internet.As a verb meeting
is .meeting
English
Verb
(head)Noun
- We need to have a meeting about that soon.
- What has the meeting decided.
- They came together in a chance meeting on the way home from work.
- Earthquakes occur at the meeting of tectonic plates.
Derived terms
* meetinghouse * meeting of the minds * meeting place * meeting room * race meeting * Sunday-go-to-meetingSynonyms
* assembly * convocation * gatheringDescendants
* Crimean Tatar: (l) (borrowed) * French: (l) (borrowed) * Russian: (borrowed) * Serbo-Croatian: (l)/ (borrowed) * Tagalog: (l) (borrowed)Statistics
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(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
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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.