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chat

Popular name for certain birds of the family Muscicapidae, order Passeriformes, such as the stonechat Saxicola torquata, and the whinchat S. rubetra.

chat

On the Internet, the real-time exchange of messages between users of a particular system. Chat allows people who are geographically far apart to type messages to each other that are sent and received instantly. Chat or instant messaging may be offered in a dedicated application program such as Microsoft Messenger or may be a facility offered as one component of a software application such as in some multiplayer on-line games.



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After supper, and another social chat and smoke, we went to our room together.
Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context
He knew that it was bedtime; yet he could not help longing to hear your merry voices, or to hold a comfortable chat with some old friend; because then his pillow would be visited by pleasant dreams.
Grandfather's Chair by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
"Why not come and chat with me," said the Grasshopper, "instead of toiling and moiling in that way?
Fables by Aesop View in context
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