Chat vs. Talk

To be engaged in informal conversation.

Example: ‘She chatted with her friend in the cafe.’; ‘I like to chat over a coffee with a friend.’;

To talk more than a few words.

Example: ‘I met my old friend in the street, so we chatted for a while.’;

(transitive) To talk of; to discuss.

Example: ‘They chatted politics for a while.’;

To exchange text or voice messages in real time through a computer network, as if having a face-to-face conversation.

Example: ‘Do you want to chat online later?’;

(uncountable) Informal conversation.

A conversation to stop an argument or settle situations.

The entirety of users in a chatroom or a single member thereof.

Example: ‘The Chat just made a joke about my skills.’;

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 muscicapid tribe Saxicolini or subfamily Saxicolinae that feed on insects.

Any of several small Australian honeyeaters in the genus Epthianura.

A small potato, such as is given to swine.

Mining waste from lead and zinc mines.

A louse small, parasitic insect.

To talk in a light and familiar manner; to converse without form or ceremony; to gossip.

Example: ‘To chat a while on their adventures.’;

To talk of.

Light, familiar talk; conversation; gossip.

Example: ‘Snuff, or fan, supply each pause of chat,With singing, laughing, ogling, and all that.’;

A bird of the genus Icteria, allied to the warblers, in America. The best known species are the yellow-breasted chat (Icteria viridis), and the long-tailed chat (Icteria longicauda). In Europe the name is given to several birds of the family Saxicolidæ, as the stonechat, and whinchat.

A twig, cone, or little branch. See Chit.

Small stones with ore.

an informal conversation

birds having a chattering call

songbirds having a chattering call

talk socially without exchanging too much information;

Example: ‘the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze’;

talk in a friendly and informal way

Example: ‘she chatted to her mother on the phone every day’;

exchange messages online in real time with one or more simultaneous users of a computer network

Example: ‘I have chatted to a few women on the Net’;

an informal conversation

Example: ‘he dropped in for a chat’; ‘that's enough chat for tonight’;

the online exchange of messages in real time with one or more simultaneous users of a computer network

Example: ‘online chat has been widely accepted by average Internet users’; ‘you can have four simultaneous chats online at once’;

a small Old World songbird of the thrush family, with black, white, and brown coloration and a harsh call.

any of a number of small songbirds with harsh calls.

(transitive) To communicate, usually by means of speech.

Example: ‘Although I don't speak Chinese I managed to talk with the villagers using signs and gestures.’; ‘They sat down to talk business.’; ‘We talk French sometimes.’;

To discuss.

Example: ‘They sat down to talk business.’; ‘We're not talking rocket science here: it should be easy.’;

To confess, especially implicating others.

Example: ‘Suppose he talks?’; ‘She can be relied upon not to talk.’; ‘They tried to make me talk.’;

(intransitive) To criticize someone for something of which one is guilty oneself.

Example: ‘I am not the one to talk.’; ‘She is a fine one to talk.’; ‘You should talk.’; ‘Look who's talking.’;

(intransitive) To gossip; to create scandal.

Example: ‘People will talk.’; ‘Aren't you afraid the neighbours will talk?’;

To influence someone to express something, especially a particular stance or viewpoint or in a particular manner.

Example: ‘You're only sticking up for her because you like her; that's your penis talking.’; ‘That's not like you at all, Jared. The drugs are talking. Snap out of it!’;

A conversation or discussion; usually serious, but informal.

Example: ‘We need to have a talk about your homework.’;

A lecture.

; often qualified by a following of}} A major topic of social discussion.

Example: ‘She is the talk of the day.’; ‘The musical is the talk of the town.’;

}} A customary conversation by parent(s) or guardian(s) with their (often teenaged) child about a reality of life; in particular:

A customary conversation in which parent(s) explain sexual intercourse to their child.

Example: ‘Have you had the talk with Jay yet?’;

(US) A customary conversation in which the parent(s) of a black child explain the racism and violence they may face, especially when interacting with police, and strategies to manage it.

}} Empty boasting, promises or claims.

Example: ‘The party leader's speech was all talk.’;

Meeting to discuss a particular matter.

Example: ‘The leaders of the G8 nations are currently in talks over nuclear weapons.’;

To utter words; esp., to converse familiarly; to speak, as in familiar discourse, when two or more persons interchange thoughts.

Example: ‘I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you, walk with you, and so following, but I will not eat with you.’;

To confer; to reason; to consult.

Example: ‘Let me talk with thee of thy judgments.’;

To prate; to speak impertinently.

To speak freely; to use for conversing or communicating; as, to talk French.

To deliver in talking; to speak; to utter; to make a subject of conversation; as, to talk nonsense; to talk politics.

To consume or spend in talking; - often followed by away; as, to talk away an evening.

To cause to be or become by talking.

The act of talking; especially, familiar converse; mutual discourse; that which is uttered, especially in familiar conversation, or the mutual converse of two or more.

Example: ‘In various talk the instructive hours they passed.’; ‘Their talk, when it was not made up of nautical phrases, was too commonly made up of oaths and curses.’;

Report; rumor; as, to hear talk of war.

Example: ‘I hear a talk up and down of raising our money.’;

Subject of discourse; as, his achievment is the talk of the town.

an exchange of ideas via conversation;

Example: ‘let's have more work and less talk around here’;

(`talk about' is a less formal alternative for `discussion of') discussion;

Example: ‘his poetry contains much talk about love and anger’;

the act of giving a talk to an audience;

Example: ‘I attended an interesting talk on local history’;

a speech that is open to the public;

Example: ‘he attended a lecture on telecommunications’;

idle gossip or rumor;

Example: ‘there has been talk about you lately’;

exchange thoughts; talk with;

Example: ‘We often talk business’; ‘Actions talk louder than words’;

express in speech;

Example: ‘She talks a lot of nonsense’; ‘This depressed patient does not verbalize’;

use language;

Example: ‘the baby talks already’; ‘the prisoner won't speak’; ‘they speak a strange dialect’;

reveal information;

Example: ‘If you don't oblige me, I'll talk!’; ‘The former employee spilled all the details’;

divulge confidential information or secrets;

Example: ‘Be careful--his secretary talks’;

deliver a lecture or talk;

Example: ‘She will talk at Rutgers next week’; ‘Did you ever lecture at Harvard?’;

speak in order to give information or express ideas or feelings; converse or communicate by spoken words

Example: ‘the two men talked’; ‘you're talking rubbish’; ‘it was no use talking to Anthony’; ‘we'd sit and talk about jazz’;

have the power of speech

Example: ‘he can talk as well as you or I can’;

discuss personal or intimate feelings

Example: ‘we need to talk, Maggie’;

persuade or cause (someone) to do something by talking

Example: ‘keep on walking and talk your way out of it’;

used to emphasize the seriousness, importance, or extent of the thing one is discussing

Example: ‘we're talking big money’;

reveal secret or confidential information

Example: ‘dead men can't talk’;

gossip

Example: ‘you'll have the whole school talking’;

have formal dealings or discussions; negotiate

Example: ‘they won't talk to the regime that killed their families’;

use (a particular language) in speech

Example: ‘we were talking German’;

communication by spoken words; conversation or discussion

Example: ‘there was a slight but noticeable lull in the talk’;

a period of conversation or discussion, especially a relatively serious one

Example: ‘my mother had a talk with Louis’;

rumour, gossip, or speculation

Example: ‘there is talk of an armistice’;

empty promises or boasting

Example: ‘he's all talk’;

a current subject of widespread gossip or speculation in (a particular place)

Example: ‘within days I was the talk of the town’;

formal discussions or negotiations over a period

Example: ‘peace talks’;

an informal address or lecture

Example: ‘a thirty-minute illustrated talk’; ‘a talk on a day in the life of an actor’;