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chat | discus |

As nouns the difference between chat and discus

is that chat is {{cx|uncountable|lang=en}} Informal conversation while discus is a round plate-like object that is thrown for sport.

As a verb chat

is to be engaged in informal conversation.

chat

English

(wikipedia chat)

Etymology 1

Abbreviation of chatter . The bird sense refers to the sound of its call.

Verb

(chatt)
  • To be engaged in informal conversation.
    • She chatted with her friend in the cafe.
    I like to chat over a coffee with a friend.
  • To talk more than a few words.
    • I met my old friend in the street, so we chatted for a while.
  • To talk of; to discuss.
    • They chatted politics for a while.
  • To exchange text or voice messages in real time through a computer network, as if having a face-to-face conversation.
    • Do you want to chat online later?

    Noun

  • Informal conversation.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
    • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=Foreword citation , passage=Reg liked a chat about old times and we used to go and have a chinwag in the pub.}}
  • 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.
    • Derived terms
    * backchat * chatroom * chat up * stonechat * whinchat

    Etymology 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

  • A small potato, such as is given to swine.

    • References

    Etymology 3

    Origin unknown.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Mining waste from lead and zinc mines.
  • * 2006 , Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day , Vintage 2007, p. 441:
    • 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

    * chatt

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • .
  • * 1977 , Mary Emily Pearce, Apple Tree Lean Down , page 520:
    • '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.'
  • * 2007 , How Can I Sleep when the Seagull Calls? (ISBN 978-1-4357-1811-1), page 18:
    • May a thousand chats from Belgium crawl under their fingers as they write.
  • * 2013 , Graham Seal, The Soldiers' Press: Trench Journals in the First World War (ISBN 1137303263), page 149:
    • 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

    Noun

    (en noun)

    • Anagrams

    * (l), (l), (l), (l) ----

    discus

    English

    (discus throw)

    Noun

    (discuses)
  • A round plate-like object that is thrown for sport.
  • * 2004 , Frank Fitzpatrick, "The amazing story of the first discus medal winner", The Philadelphia Inquirer , August 18,
    • He [ won even though he hadn't ever touched a real discus until just before the event was held.
  • * 2008 , John Branch, " Estonia's Kanter Celebrates Gold Medal in the Discus His Way", The New York Times , August 23,
    • [Gerd] Kanter had agreed to demonstrate his throwing skill on Friday, but rather than bringing his own discuses —he usually travels with about five of them,
  • (uncountable) The athletics sport of discus throwing.
  • * 2008 , " Weir lays down marker in Beijing", BBC , September 8,
    • And Chris Martin took a silver medal in the discus on the opening day in the Bird's Nest,
  • A discus fish.
  • * 2008 , Carol Roberts, " History of Discus", North American Discus Association ,
    • The main body of the Amazon River is too fast, too deep, and too silt laden for discus .
  • (rare, dated) A chakram.
  • * 1893 , Krishna-Swaipayana Vyasa, translated by K. M. Ganguli, ,
    • And Narayana instantly cut off with his discus the well-adorned head of the Danava who was drinking the Amrita without permission.
  • * 1899 , ",
    • If with a discus with an edge sharp as a razor he should make all the living creatures on the earth one heap, one mass, of flesh,

    Synonyms

    * (round plate) quoit

    Usage notes

    * Although an alternative latinate plural (disci) is often cited, it is hardly ever used in practice.