Chat Definition–verb (used without object) | 1. | to converse in a familiar or informal manner. |
–noun | 2. | informal conversation: We had a pleasant chat. |
| 3. | any of several small Old World thrushes, esp. of the genus Saxicola, having a chattering cry. |
—Verb phrase| 5. | chat up, Chiefly British. | a. | to talk flirtatiously with. |
| b. | to talk to in a friendly, open way. |
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any of several songbirds (suborder Passeres, order Passeriformes) named for their harsh, chattering notes.chat-thrush
any of the 190 species belonging to the songbird family Turdidae (order Passeriformes) that are generally smaller and have slenderer legs and more colourful plumage than true, or typical, thrushes. ...
palm-chat
(species Dulus dominicus), songbird of Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic) and nearby Gonave Island, which may belong in the waxwing family (Bombycillidae) but which is usually separated ...
cri-du-chat syndrome
rare congenital disorder caused by partial deletion of the short arm of chromosome 5, characterized by mental retardation, mild facial abnormalities, anomalies of dermal ridge patterns ...
causerie
in literature, a short, informal essay, often on a literary topic. This sense of the word is derived from the title of a series of essays by the French author Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve entitled ...
bluethroat
(Erithacus svecicus or Luscinia svecica), Eurasian chat-thrush of the thrush family, Turdidae (order Passeriformes). The bluethroat is aobut 14 centimetres (5 12 inches) long and has a bright blue ...
thrush
any of about 300 members of the songbird family Turdidae, treated by many modern authorities as a subfamily of the Old World insect eaters, family Muscicapidae. The thrushes are sometimes divided ...
whinchat
(Saxicola rubetra), Eurasian thrush named for its habitat: swampy meadows, called, in England, whins. This species, 13 centimetres (5 inches) long, one of the chat-thrush group (family Turdidae, ...
wrenthrush
(Zeledonia coronata), bird of the rain forests of Costa Rica and Panama. It resembles the wren in size (11 cm, or 4.5 inches), in being brownish and short-tailed, and in its habit of skulking in ...
Bombycillidae
songbird family, order Passeriformes, that includes waxwings (see waxwing), the silky flycatchers (the best known of which is the phainopepla, Phainopepla nitens), and the little-known gray ...
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