different between chat vs poule

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?æt/
• Rhymes: -æt

Etymology 1

Abbreviation of chatter. The bird sense refers to the sound of its call.

Verb

chat (third-person singular simple present chats, present participle chatting, simple past and past participle chatted)

1. To be engaged in informal conversation.

2. To talk more than a few words.

3. (transitive) To talk of; to discuss.
4. To exchange text or voice messages in real time through a computer network, as if having a face-to-face conversation.

Translations

Noun

chat (countable and uncountable, plural chats)

1. (uncountable) Informal conversation.

2. A conversation to stop an argument or settle situations.
3. (metonymically, typically with definite article, video games) The entirety of users in a chatroom or a single member thereof.

4. An exchange of text or voice messages in real time through a computer network, resembling a face-to-face conversation.
5. A chat room
6. Any of various small Old World passerine birds in the muscicapid tribe Saxicolini or subfamily Saxicolinae that feed on insects.
7. Any of several small Australian honeyeaters in the genus Epthianura.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

Compare chit (“small piece of paper”), and chad.

Noun

chat

1. A small potato, such as is given to swine.

References

Etymology 3

Origin unknown.

Noun

chat (plural chats)

1. (mining, local use) Mining waste from lead and zinc mines.
   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 441:

     Frank had been looking at calcite crystals for a while now [...] among the chats or zinc tailings of the Lake County mines, down here in the silver lodes of the Vita Madre and so forth.

Translations

Etymology 4

From thieves' cant.

Alternative forms

• chatt

Noun

chat (plural chats)

1. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand, WWI military slang) A louse (small, parasitic insect).
   • 1977, Mary Emily Pearce, Apple Tree Lean Down, page 520:

     'Do officers have chats, then, the same as us?'

     'Not the same, no. The chats they got is bigger and better, with pips on their shoulders and Sam Browne belts.'

   • 2007, How Can I Sleep when the Seagull Calls? ?ISBN, page 18:

     May a thousand chats from Belgium crawl under their fingers as they write.

Etymology 5

Noun

chat (plural chats)

1. Alternative form of chaat

Anagrams

• ACTH, Cath, cath, cath., tach

Antillean Creole

Etymology

From French chat.

Noun

chat

1. cat

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??t/
• Hyphenation: chat
• Rhymes: -?t

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English chat.

Noun

chat m (plural chats, diminutive chatje n)

1. chat (online conversation)
2. chat (online conversation platform)

Derived terms

• chatten

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

chat

1. first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of chatten
2. imperative of chatten

Anagrams

• acht

French

Etymology 1

From Middle French chat, from Old French chat, from Late Latin cattus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a/

Noun

chat m (plural chats)

1. cat (feline)
2. (male) cat, tom, tomcat
3. tag, tig (children’s game)

Derived terms

Related terms

• cataire
• chatte

See also

• haret
• matou
• minet
• minou
• mistigri

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English chat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?at/

Noun

chat m (plural chats)

1. (Internet) chat (online discussion)

Synonyms

• tchat

Derived terms

• chatter
• chater
• chatteur
• chateur

Further reading

• “chat” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Iban

Etymology

From Min Nan ? (chhat).

Noun

chat

1. paint (substance)

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xat??/

Noun

chat m

1. Lenited form of cat.

Italian

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English chat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t??i.at/
• Hyphenation: chàt

Noun

chat f (invariable)

1. chat (informal conversation via computer)

Derived terms

• chattare

See also

• chiacchierata

Etymology 2

From Somali [Term?].

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kat/

Noun

chat m (invariable)

1. chat (leaf chewed by people in North Africa and the Middle East)

   Synonym: khat

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French chat, from Late Latin cattus.

Noun

chat m (plural chats or chatz, feminine singular chatte, feminine plural chattes)

1. cat (animal)

Descendants

• French: chat

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• chatt

Etymology

Borrowed from English chat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??æt?/ (example of pronunciation)

Noun

chat m (definite singular chaten, indefinite plural chatar, definite plural chatane)

1. (Internet) a chat

References

• “chat” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old French

Alternative forms

• cat (Picardy, Anglo-Norman)
• kat (Picardy, Anglo-Norman)

Etymology

From Late Latin cattus.

Noun

chat m (oblique plural chaz or chatz, nominative singular chaz or chatz, nominative plural chat)

1. cat (animal)

Related terms

• chate

Descendants

• Middle French: chat
  • French: chat

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xat/

Noun

chat f

1. genitive plural of chata

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English chat.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /??at(?)(i)/, /???t(?)(i)/

Noun

chat m (plural chats)

1. (Internet) chat (exchange of text or voice messages in real time)

   Synonym: bate-papo

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English chat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t??at/, [?t??at?]

Noun

chat m (plural chats)

1. chat (exchange of text or voice messages in real time through a computer network)

Derived terms

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from English chat

Noun

chat

1. chat

Derived terms

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /pu?l/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French poule, from Latin pullus, pulla.

Noun

poule (plural poules)

1. A girl, a young woman, especially seen as promiscuous; a slut. [from 1920s]
   • 1926, Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises, Folio Society 2008, p. 40:

     It was a warm spring night and I sat at a table on the terrace of the Napolitain after Robert had gone, watching […] the poules going by, singly and in pairs, looking for the evening meal.

   • 2000, J. G. Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate 2011, p. 369:

     ‘Where are the Delages taking you?’ ‘Dinner at…somewhere terribly smart. They'll pretend I'm a poule they picked up in the street.’

Etymology 2

Noun

poule (plural poules)

1. Obsolete form of pool (in various senses)

Anagrams

• Loupe, Puleo, loupe

Bourguignon

Etymology

From Latin pulla.

Noun

poule f (plural poules)

1. hen

Synonyms

• geleigne

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?pou?l?]

Verb

poule

1. masculine singular present transgressive of poulit

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pul/

Etymology 1

From Old French, from Vulgar Latin pulla, feminine form of from Latin pullus.

Noun

poule f (plural poules)

1. hen (female chicken)
2. (slang) chick, bird (woman)

Derived terms

Related terms

• poulain
• poulet

See also

• coq

Etymology 2

Of uncertain origin.

Noun

poule f (plural poules)

1. (card games) pool
2. pool, group (stage of a competition before the knockout stages)

Derived terms

• phase de poule

Descendants

• English: pool

Anagrams

• loupe, loupé

Further reading

• “poule” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Norman

Etymology

From Old French poule, from Vulgar Latin pulla, feminine form of Latin pullus (“rooster”).

Noun

poule f (plural poules)

1. (Jersey) hen

Synonyms

• g'linne

Derived terms

Old French

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin pulla, feminine form of pullus.

Noun

poule f (plural poules)

1. hen (female chicken)

Derived terms

• poulet

Descendants

• ? Middle English: pulle
• French: poule
• Norman: poule

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (poule, supplement)

Spanish

Noun

poule f (plural poules)

1. pool stage