Commerce vs Chat - What's the difference?
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(business) The exchange or buying and selling of commodities; especially the exchange of merchandise, on a large scale, between different places or communities; extended trade or traffic.
Social intercourse; the dealings of one person or class in society with another; familiarity.
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(obsolete) Sexual intercourse.
A round game at cards, in which the cards are subject to exchange, barter, or trade.
(dated) To carry on trade; to traffic.
(dated) To hold intercourse; to commune.
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.
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, 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:
Commerce is a related term of chat.
As a verb commerce
is .As a noun chat is
a chat, exchange of text or voice messages in real time, notably by internet.commerce
English
Noun
- Fifteen years of thought, observation, and commerce with the world had made him [Bunyan] wiser.
- Suppose we held our converse not in words, but in music; those who have a bad ear would find themselves cut off from all near commerce , and no better than foreigners in this big world.
- (Hoyle)
Synonyms
* trade, traffic, dealings, intercourse, interchange, communion, communication * See alsoDerived terms
* chamber of commerce * commercialVerb
(commerc)- Beware you commerce not with bankrupts. -B. Jonson.
- Commercing with himself. -Tennyson.
- Musicians ... taught the people in angelic harmonies to commerce with heaven. -Prof. Wilson.
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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.