Chat vs Test - What's the difference?
chat | test |
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:
A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.
A , trial.
* {{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April
, author=Colin Allen
, title=Do I See What You See?
, volume=100, issue=2, page=168
, magazine=(American Scientist)
(academia) An examination, given often during the academic term.
A session in which a product or piece of equipment is examined under everyday or extreme conditions to evaluate its durability, etc.
A Test match.
(marine biology) The external calciferous shell, or endoskeleton, of an echinoderm, e.g. sand dollars]] and sea urchins.
(botany) Testa; seed coat.
Judgment; distinction; discrimination.
* Dryden
To refine (gold, silver, etc.) in a test or cupel; to subject to cupellation.
To .
To put to the proof; to prove the truth, genuineness, or quality of by experiment, or by some principle or standard; to try.
* Washington
(academics) To administer or assign an examination, often given during the academic term, to (somebody).
To place a product or piece of equipment under everyday and/or extreme conditions and examine it for its durability, etc.
* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author=
, title= (copulative) To be shown to be by test.
(chemistry) To examine or try, as by the use of some reagent.
(obsolete) A witness.
* Ld. Berners
As nouns the difference between chat and test
is that chat is a chat, exchange of text or voice messages in real time, notably by internet while test is .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
citation, passage=Reg liked a chat about old times and we used to go and have a chinwag in the pub.}}
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.
Etymology 5
Anagrams
* (l), (l), (l), (l) ----test
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) ; see terra, thirst.Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=Numerous experimental tests and other observations have been offered in favor of animal mind reading, and although many scientists are skeptical, others assert that humans are not the only species capable of representing what others do and don’t perceive and know.}}
- Who would excel, when few can make a test / Betwixt indifferent writing and the best?
Synonyms
* (challenge) challenge, trial * (sense) quiz, examinationAntonyms
* (challenge) breeze * (sense) recessDerived terms
* acid test * babysitter test * blood test * flame test * inkblot test * litmus test * nose test * Rorschach test * smell test * smoke test * sniff test * stress test * test case * tester * test tubeDescendants
* German: (l) * Dutch: (l)Verb
(en verb)- Climbing the mountain tested our stamina.
- to test''' the soundness of a principle; to '''test the validity of an argument
- Experience is the surest standard by which to test the real tendency of the existing constitution.
Charles T. Ambrose
Alzheimer’s Disease, volume=101, issue=3, page=200, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems— […]. Such a slow-release device containing angiogenic factors could be placed on the pia mater covering the cerebral cortex and tested in persons with senile dementia in long term studies.}}
- to test a solution by litmus paper
Descendants
* German: (l)Etymology 2
From (etyl) tester, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- Prelates and great lords of England, who were for the more surety tests of that deed.
