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Chatting

Chat \Chat\ (ch[a^]t), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Chatted; p. pr. & vb. n. Chatting.] [From Chatter. [root]22.] To talk in a light and familiar manner; to converse without form or ceremony; to gossip.
--Shak.

To chat a while on their adventures.
--Dryden.

Syn: To talk; chatter; gossip; converse.

Wiktionary
chatting

n. talk; chatter vb. (present participle of chat English)

WordNet
chatting

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chat
  1. n. an informal conversation [syn: confab, confabulation, schmooze, schmoose]

  2. birds having a chattering call [syn: New World chat]

  3. songbirds having a chattering call [syn: Old World chat]

  4. [also: chatting, chatted]

chat
  1. v. talk socially without exchanging too much information; "the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze" [syn: chew the fat, shoot the breeze, confabulate, confab, chitchat, chatter, chaffer, natter, gossip, jaw, claver, visit]

  2. [also: chatting, chatted]

Usage examples of "chatting".

While Forister remained on board as a nominal guard for Fassa, Sev lounged about the public rooms at Summerlands trying to look like a worried friend-or-relative and chatting up the recuperating VIPs.

Only a few officers remained, most chatting quietly at a wall table on the far side of the mess hall.

While he was chatting with a salesclerk, he asked very casually if they needed a ship's medical officer for human passengers.

The restaurant was packed with locals chatting while live music added to the clamour.

But the onboard crew, a dozen officers and fifty or so enlisted, she made a point of chatting up.

She visited the hospital once or twice, chatting with youngsters who were now orphans, as she had been.

By the time they returned to the castle, the other newlywed couple were in the morning room, chatting merrily.

There must be other ships on the 20 kilometers-square base interested in chatting with her.

By the time Fassa was cleaned up in her cabin and the other passengers busy with their own peculiar amusements, she had gone through the recognition Sequences and the official messages and was happily chatting with Simeon, the managing brain of Vega Base.

And when he wasn't reading about this place called Viet Nam, he wasted his time in relaxed, casual conversation with her and Caleb, chatting about their families and upbringing, their hopes and dreams.

Three magifolk chatting near the double doors discovered a couch behind them and sat down.

While the three of them had been chatting, the councillor had finished his daily tirade.

Tiria noticed it, and she also noticed how the other people in the car were relaxing, smiling and chatting comfortably with one another.

As the other members of Sascha's team piled out, laughing and chatting over the successful assignment, Tiria just stood, her large eyes wide and white as she stared around her.

Their destination lay in the large chamber where people were standing in groups, chatting brightly to each other as people do when passing time.