Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word chat. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in chat.
Definitions and meaning of chat
chat
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /tʃæt/
Rhymes: -æt
Etymology 1
Abbreviation of chatter. The bird sense refers to the sound of its call.
Verb
chat (third-person singular simple presentchats, present participlechatting, simple past and past participlechatted)
To be engaged in informal conversation.
To talk more than a few words.
(transitive) 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.
Translations
Noun
chat (countable and uncountable, pluralchats)
(uncountable) Informal conversation.
A conversation to stop an argument or settle situations.
(metonymically, typically with definite article, video games) The entirety of users in a chatroom or a single member thereof.
An exchange of text or voice messages in real time through a computer network, resembling a face-to-face conversation.
A chat room
Any of various small Old World passerine birds in the muscicapid tribe Saxicolini or subfamily Saxicolinae that feed on insects.
Any of several small Australian honeyeaters in the genus Epthianura.
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 2
Compare chit(“small piece of paper”), and chad.
Noun
chat
A small potato, such as is given to swine.
References
Etymology 3
Origin unknown.
Noun
chat (pluralchats)
(mining, local use) 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.
Translations
Etymology 4
From thieves' cant.
Alternative forms
chatt
Noun
chat (pluralchats)
(Britain, Australia, New Zealand, WWI military slang) A louse (small, parasitic insect).
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, page 18:
May a thousand chats from Belgium crawl under their fingers as they write.
Etymology 5
Noun
chat (pluralchats)
Alternative form of chaat
Anagrams
ACTH, Cath, cath, cath., tach
Antillean Creole
Etymology
From Frenchchat.
Noun
chat
cat
Dutch
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /tʃɛt/
Hyphenation: chat
Rhymes: -ɛt
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Englishchat.
Noun
chatm (pluralchats, diminutivechatjen)
chat(online conversation)
chat(online conversation platform)
Derived terms
chatten
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
chat
first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of chatten
imperative of chatten
Anagrams
acht
French
Etymology 1
From Middle Frenchchat, from Old Frenchchat, from Late Latincattus.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /ʃa/
Noun
chatm (pluralchats)
cat (feline)
(male) cat, tom, tomcat
tag, tig (children’s game)
Derived terms
Related terms
cataire
chatte
See also
haret
matou
minet
minou
mistigri
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Englishchat.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /tʃat/
Noun
chatm (pluralchats)
(Internet)chat(online discussion)
Synonyms
tchat
Derived terms
chatter
chater
chatteur
chateur
Further reading
“chat” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Iban
Etymology
From Min Nan漆(chhat).
Noun
chat
paint (substance)
Irish
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /xat̪ˠ/
Noun
chatm
Lenited form of cat.
Italian
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Englishchat.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /t͡ʃat/, [t͡ʃät̪]
Hyphenation: chàt
Noun
chatf (invariable)
chat(informal conversation via computer)
Derived terms
chattare
See also
chiacchierata
Etymology 2
From Somali [Term?].
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /kat/
Noun
chatm (invariable)
chat (leaf chewed by people in North Africa and the Middle East)