Chat vs. Chaat — What's the Difference?

Talk in a friendly and informal way

Chaat or chāt (lit:"tasting, delicacy") is a family of savoury snacks that originated in India, typically served as an hors d'oeuvre or at roadside tracks from stalls or food carts across the Indian subcontinent in India, Pakistan, Nepal, and Bangladesh. With its origins in Uttar Pradesh, India, chaat has become immensely popular in the rest of the Indian subcontinent.

An informal conversation

(used with a sing. or pl. verb) Small, often fried food preparations eaten as snacks in South Asian cuisine and traditionally sold by street vendors.

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

One of these preparations.

Any of a number of small songbirds with harsh calls.

Any savory snack, sold from a roadside stall in India, or served as a starter in an Indian restaurant.

To converse in an easy, familiar manner; talk lightly and casually.

(Computers) To participate in a synchronous exchange of remarks with one or more people over a computer network.

An informal, light conversation.

(Computers) A synchronous exchange of remarks over a computer network.

Any of various birds in the families Muscicapidae or Parulidae that have a chattering call, especially the yellow-breasted chat.

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.

Informal conversation.

A conversation to stop an argument or settle a situation.

An exchange of text or voice messages in real time through a computer network, resembling a face-to-face conversation.

(internet) A chat room.

The entirety of users in a chat room or a single member thereof.

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.

To talk of.

Light, familiar talk; conversation; gossip.

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;