Talk vs Chat - What's the difference?
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A conversation or discussion.
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(preceded by the) A major topic of social discussion.
(not preceded by an article) Empty boasting, promises or claims.
To communicate, usually by means of speech.
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, chapter=5 (informal) To discuss.
(slang) To confess, especially implicating others.
To criticize someone for something of which one is guilty oneself.
To gossip; to create scandal.
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, title= 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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, 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.
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As nouns the difference between talk and chat
is that talk is a conversation or discussion while chat is {{cx|uncountable|lang=en}} Informal conversation.As verbs the difference between talk and chat
is that talk is to communicate, usually by means of speech while chat is to be engaged in informal conversation.talk
English
Noun
(en noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill.
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* all talk * baby talk * betalk * big talk * boy talk * chalk talk/chalk and talk * cross talk/crosstalk * dirty talk * girl talk * happy talk * idle talk * man talk * peace talk * pep talk * pillow talk * self-talk * shop talk * side talk * sleep talk * small talk * table talk * talk battery * talk bomb * talk is cheap * talk of the town * talk page * talk radio * talk show * talk the talk * talkback * talkie * walk and talk * walk the talk * walkie-talkieVerb
(en verb)- I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you, walk with you, and so following, but I will not eat with you.
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=Then he commenced to talk', really '''talk'''. and inside of two flaps of a herring's fin he had me mesmerized, like Eben Holt's boy at the town hall show. He ' talked about the ills of humanity, and the glories of health and Nature and service and land knows what all.
citation, passage=Mr. Campion appeared suitably impressed and she warmed to him. He was very easy to talk to with those long clown lines in his pale face, a natural goon, born rather too early she suspected.}}
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Conjugation
(en-conj-simple)Synonyms
* See alsoCoordinate terms
* listenDerived terms
* bad-talk * double-talk * fast-talk * look who's talking * now you're talking * sleep-talk * sweet-talk * talk a blue streak * talk a mile a minute * talk about * talk around * talkative * talk back * talk cock * talk dirty * talk down * talker * talk in circles * talk into * talk like an apothecary * talk of * talk of the devil * talk one's way out of * talk out of turn * talk over * talk sense * talk shit/talk shite * talk shop * talk smack * talk someone's ear off * talk someone under the table * talk the talk * talk through one's hat * talk to the hand * talk trash * talk turkey * talk up * talky * trash-talk * you can talkStatistics
* 1000 English basic words ----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.