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Chat vs. Eat — What's the Difference?

Chat vs. Eat — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Chat and Eat

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Chat

Talk in a friendly and informal way
She chatted to her mother on the phone every day

Eat

Put (food) into the mouth and chew and swallow it
Eat up all your peas
He was eating a hot dog
She watched her son as he ate

Chat

An informal conversation
He dropped in for a chat
That's enough chat for tonight

Eat

Light food or snacks
These make great party eats

Chat

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

To take into the body by the mouth for digestion or absorption.

Chat

Any of a number of small songbirds with harsh calls.

Eat

To take in and absorb as food
A plant that eats insects.
A cell that eats bacteria.

Chat

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

Eat

To include habitually or by preference in one's diet
A bird that eats insects, fruit, and seeds.
Stopped eating red meat on advice from her doctor.

Chat

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

Eat

To destroy, ravage, or use up by or as if by ingesting
"Covering news in the field eats money" (George F. Will).

Chat

An informal, light conversation.

Eat

To erode or corrode
Waves that ate away the beach.
An acid that eats the surface of a machine part.

Chat

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

Eat

To produce by eating
Moths ate holes in our sweaters.

Chat

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

Eat

(Slang) To absorb the cost or expense of
"You can eat your loss and switch the remaining money to other investment portfolios" (Marlys Harris).

Chat

To be engaged in informal conversation.
She chatted with her friend in the cafe.
I like to chat over a coffee with a friend.

Eat

(Informal) To bother or annoy
What's eating him?.

Chat

To talk more than a few words.
I met my old friend in the street, so we chatted for a while.

Eat

Vulgar slang To perform cunnilingus or anilingus on. Often used with out.

Chat

(transitive) To talk of; to discuss.
They chatted politics for a while.

Eat

To consume food.

Chat

To exchange text or voice messages in real time through a computer network, as if having a face-to-face conversation.
Do you want to chat online later?

Eat

To have or take a meal.

Chat

Informal conversation.
It'd be cool to meet up again soon and have a quick chat.

Eat

To exercise a consuming or eroding effect
A drill that ate away at the rock.
Exorbitant expenses that were eating into profits.

Chat

A conversation to stop an argument or settle a situation.

Eat

To cause persistent annoyance or distress
"How long will it be before the frustration eats at you?" (Howard Kaplan).

Chat

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

Eat

To ingest; to be ingested.

Chat

(internet) A chat room.

Eat

(ambitransitive) To consume (something solid or semi-solid, usually food) by putting it into the mouth and swallowing it.
He's eating an apple. / Don't disturb me now; can't you see that I'm eating?

Chat

The entirety of users in a chat room or a single member thereof.
The Chat just made a joke about my poor skillz.

Eat

(intransitive) To consume a meal.
What time do we eat this evening?

Chat

Any of various small Old World passerine birds in the muscicapid tribe Saxicolini or subfamily Saxicolinae that feed on insects.

Eat

To be eaten.
It's a soup that eats like a meal.

Chat

Any of several small Australian honeyeaters in the genus Epthianura.

Eat

To have a particular quality of diet; to be well-fed or underfed (typically as "eat healthy" or "eat good").

Chat

A small potato, such as is given to swine.

Eat

To use up.

Chat

Mining waste from lead and zinc mines.

Eat

To destroy, consume, or use up.
This project is eating up all the money.

Chat

A louse small, parasitic insect.

Eat

To consume (an exception, an event, etc.) so that other parts of the program do not receive it.

Chat

To talk in a light and familiar manner; to converse without form or ceremony; to gossip.
To chat a while on their adventures.

Eat

To damage, destroy, or fail to eject a removable part or an inserted object.
The VHS recorder just ate the tape and won't spit it out.
John is late for the meeting because the photocopier ate his report.

Chat

To talk of.

Eat

To consume money (or other instruments of value, such as a token) deposited or inserted by a user, while failing to either provide the intended product or service or return the payment.
The video game in the corner just ate my quarter.

Chat

Light, familiar talk; conversation; gossip.
Snuff, or fan, supply each pause of chat,With singing, laughing, ogling, and all that.

Eat

To cause (someone) to worry.
What's eating you?

Chat

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.

Eat

To take the loss in a transaction.

Chat

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

Eat

To be injured or killed by (something such as a firearm or its projectile), especially in the mouth.

Chat

Small stones with ore.

Eat

(ambitransitive) To corrode or erode.
The acid rain ate away the statue.
The strong acid eats through the metal.

Chat

An informal conversation

Eat

To perform oral sex (on a person or body part).
Eat me!
I ate his ass.
Yeah, eat that dick / eat that pussy.

Chat

Birds having a chattering call

Eat

To be very good; to rule; to rock.
You ate that performance!

Chat

Songbirds having a chattering call

Eat

(colloquial) Something to be eaten; a meal; a food item.

Chat

Talk socially without exchanging too much information;
The men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze

Eat

To chew and swallow as food; to devour; - said especially of food not liquid; as, to eat bread.
They . . . ate the sacrifices of the dead.
The lean . . . did eat up the first seven fat kine.
The lion had not eaten the carcass.
With stories told of many a feat,How fairy Mab the junkets eat.
The island princes overboldHave eat our substance.
His wretched estate is eaten up with mortgages.

Eat

To corrode, as metal, by rust; to consume the flesh, as a cancer; to waste or wear away; to destroy gradually; to cause to disappear.

Eat

To take food; to feed; especially, to take solid, in distinction from liquid, food; to board.
He did eat continually at the king's table.

Eat

To taste or relish; as, it eats like tender beef.

Eat

To make one's way slowly.

Eat

Take in solid food;
She was eating a banana
What did you eat for dinner last night?

Eat

Eat a meal; take a meal;
We did not eat until 10 P.M. because there were so many phone calls
I didn't eat yet, so I gladly accept your invitation

Eat

Take in food; used of animals only;
This dog doesn't eat certain kinds of meat
What do whales eat?

Eat

Use up (resources or materials);
This car consumes a lot of gas
We exhausted our savings
They run through 20 bottles of wine a week

Eat

Worry or cause anxiety in a persistent way;
What's eating you?

Eat

Cause to deteriorate due to the action of water, air, or an acid;
The acid corroded the metal
The steady dripping of water rusted the metal stopper in the sink

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