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Meaning of chat | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1 Frequent
ˈt͡ʃæt

Definitions

  1. ChatGPT
  2. Acronym of cultural-historical activity theory.
    abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, uncountable
  3. Informal conversation.
    countable, uncountable
  4. A small potato, such as is given to swine.
  5. Mining waste from lead and zinc mines.
    regional
  6. A louse (small, parasitic insect).
    Australia, British, New-Zealand, World-War-I, slang
  7. To be engaged in informal conversation
  8. ChatGPT.
    slang
  9. An exchange of text or voice messages in real time through a computer network, resembling a face-to-face conversation.
    countable, uncountable
  10. To talk more than a few words
  11. A chat room, especially (in later use) one accompanying a videoconference or live stream.
    Internet, uncountable
  12. To talk of; to discuss
  13. The entirety of users, viewed collectively, in a chat room, especially the chat room accompanying a live stream.
    Internet, countable, metonymically, uncountable
  14. To chat shit (to speak nonsense, to lie)
  15. Familiar term of address for users on social media other than a chat room, as in "guys."
    Internet, broadly, countable, humorous, nonstandard, uncountable
  16. To exchange text or voice messages in real time through a computer network such as a social media chat room or messaging application
  17. Any of various small Old World passerine birds in the muscicapid tribe Saxicolini or subfamily Saxicolinae that feed on insects.
    countable
  18. Any of several small Australian honeyeaters in the genus Epthianura.
    countable

Equivalents

Afrikaans gesels
Azərbaycanca söhbət
Català xat xerrar
Čeština četovat chat povídat
Cymraeg sgwrs sgwrsio
Dansk snak snakke
Esperanto babilado babili
فارسی چت گپ گپ زدن
Gaeilge caislín
Gàidhlig seanchas
עברית צ׳אט
हिन्दी चैट
Հայերեն չատ
Bahasa Indonesia kongko mengobrol obrol obrolan
Íslenska spjall spjalla
Kurdî sohbet tam tam
Latina fabulor
ລາວ ຄຸຍ
Bahasa Melayu berbual bersembang bual sembang
Malti tpaċpiċ
Polski czat gadać gawędzić pogawędka
Sesotho qoqa
ไทย คุย
Tiếng Việt tam tán gẫu
Wolof waxtaan

Examples

“It'd be cool to meet up again soon and have a quick chat.”
“Reg liked a chat about old times and we used to go and have a chinwag in the pub.”
“Internet Relay Chat”
“"Type yes in (the) chat if you can hear me."”
“While there are chats for various interest groups (games, Internet, sports), you can also […]”
“The chat just made a joke about my poor skillz.”
“"Chat, should I pick up this sword before heading out?"”
“Chat, is this prime minister serious?”
“Wheat and potatoes were traditionally cash crops, though they also provided tail corn for the poultry and chats for the pigs”
“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.”
“'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.”
“Its redundancy of creative work and in terms of chat how people can use it as a cheat basically, you don't have to do essays for school when you can ask chat to do it for you, which forces teachers to have to take this tool into account, and a kid here has said his honest essay has been flagged as "AI made" by his teacher, it's really tricky”
“I asked chat to pick a draft to post and it said they all suck”
“My relative works for the Canadian government, and half her office uses chat to create all sorts of internal comms. I'm just waiting for the leak lmao”
“I asked Chat to write a paragraph about graphene oxide in LNPs. This is the response.”
“i be using chat to make study plans for me 😭”
“TiL the kids are calling Chat-GPT just "chat". Usage from my 20yo, "I bet he used Chat to write that apology"”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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