English words for 'break into a conversation'
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verb
- break into a conversation
- (intransitive) To interrupt one's conversation; speak before another person has finished speaking.
- enter someone's (virtual or real) property in an unauthorized manner, usually with the intent to steal or commit a violent act
- intrude on uninvited
- start in a certain activity, enterprise, or role
- make submissive, obedient, or useful
- break so as to fall inward
- (ambitransitive, ergative, idiomatic) To reach a state of functioning more smoothly through use or wear; to cause (something, or someone, new) to undergo this change.
- (transitive, idiomatic) Starting something brand new or at a new level.
- (transitive, colloquial) To take the virginity of a girl, to deflower.
- (intransitive) To enter a place by force or illicit means.
- (transitive, slang) To initiate a new person into prostitution or prison sex acts.
- (transitive, of a horse) To tame; make obedient; to train to follow orders of the owner.
verb
- break into a conversation
- (intransitive, slang) To unfairly push in on (something); to gain a role in (something unsavory); to acquire a partial interest in (something) through deceit.
- (intransitive) To barge in on something; to be a third wheel; to insinuate oneself into a situation or relationship; to get oneself involved in something.
verb
- break into a conversation
- allow someone to have a share or profit
- interrupt a dancing couple in order to take one of them as one's own partner
- drive in front of another vehicle leaving too little space for that vehicle to maneuver comfortably
- mix in with cutting motions
- To intrude or interrupt.
- (surfing) To begin riding a wave in front of someone else whose legitimate turn it is.
- To pull in front of another vehicle in traffic, especially to do so dangerously or unfairly.
- To join a queue in the middle, as opposed to at the back.
- (transitive, slang) To include; to allow (someone) to participate in something.
- (transitive, slang) To give (someone) a share of something.
- When painting, to paint edges, corners, or trim in preparation for rolling larger areas.
- (intransitive, slang) To take a share of something; to push one's way into a project, game or plan.
- To take up a portion of.
verb
- break into a conversation
- keep or lay aside for future use
- place, fit, or thrust (something) into another thing
- to insert between other elements
- make an application as for a job or funding
- set up for use
- (transitive) To place inside.
- (transitive) To fill in on a form or questionnaire; to use as an answer on a form or questionnaire.
- (transitive) To contribute.
- (transitive) To declare or make official
- (intransitive) To apply, request, or submit.
- (transitive) To install or deliver.
- (transitive) To plant a crop.
- (transitive) To make (a telephone call).
- (transitive, ditransitive) To imprison or place in a prison cell.
- (transitive, slang, African-American Vernacular) To injure the body of (someone).
noun
- A conversation.
- (finance) The difference between the values of money in different places.
- (usually with "the") The loss of a minor piece (typically a bishop or knight) and associated capture of the more advantageous rook.
- (telephony) A central office.
- (law, England and Wales, Northern Ireland) Clipping of exchange of contracts.
- (biochemistry) The transfer of substances or elements like gas, amino-acids, ions etc. sometimes through a surface like a membrane.
- An act of exchanging or trading.
- A place for conducting trading.
- (telephony) The portion of a telephone number that represents (or formerly represented) a central office.
- (chess) The loss of one piece and associated capture of another.
- a mutual expression of views (especially an unpleasant one)
- (chess) the capture by both players (usually on consecutive moves) of pieces of equal value
- chemical process in which one atom or ion or group changes places with another
- (sports) an unbroken sequence of several successive strokes
- the act of changing one thing for another thing
- a workplace that serves as a telecommunications facility where lines from telephones can be connected together to permit communication
- the act of putting one thing or person in the place of another:
- (chess) gaining (or losing) a rook in return for a knight or bishop
- a workplace for buying and selling; open only to members
- the act of giving something in return for something received
- reciprocal transfer of equivalent sums of money (especially the currencies of different countries)
verb
- (transitive) To trade or barter.
- (transitive, figurative) To mutually direct at each other.
- (law, England and Wales, Northern Ireland) Clipping of exchange contracts.
- (transitive) To replace with, as a substitute.
- (transitive) To recommend and get recommendations.
- put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items
- exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category
- change over, change around, as to a new order or sequence
- exchange a penalty for a less severe one
- give to, and receive from, one another
- hand over one and receive another, approximately equivalent
noun
- A conversation or exchange between people.
- The situation or occurrence in which two or more objects or events act upon one another to produce an effect; the effect resulting from such a situation or occurrence.
- (physics) the transfer of energy between elementary particles or between an elementary particle and a field or between fields; mediated by gauge bosons
- a mutual or reciprocal action; interacting
noun
- a conversation between two persons
- A conversation or other form of discourse between two or more individuals.
- a discussion intended to produce an agreement
- a literary composition in the form of a conversation between two people
- the lines spoken by characters in drama or fiction
- (authorship) In a dramatic or literary presentation, the verbal parts of the script or text; the verbalizations of the actors or characters.
- (computing) Nonstandard form of dialog (“dialog box”).
- (philosophy) A literary form, where the presentation resembles a conversation.
verb
noun
- A conversation or dialogue.
- A written discourse.
- (classical studies) A collection of scripted dialogues written as a textbook, or a set of exercises, to help students to practice and improve their Latin or Ancient Greek. See: Colloquy
- (law) A discussion during a trial in which a judge ensures that the defendant understands what is taking place in the trial and what his or her rights are.
- (Christianity) A church court held by certain Reformed denominations.
- a conversation especially a formal one
- formal conversation
verb
noun
- a person who takes part in a conversation
- a performer in the middle of a minstrel line who engages the others in talk
- (law) An interlocutory judgement or sentence.
- A person who takes part in dialogue or conversation: a locutive partner.
- A man in the middle of the line in a minstrel show who questions the endmen and acts as leader.
- (Scots law) A decree of a court.
verb
- exchange thoughts; talk with
- express in speech
- use language
- give a speech to
- make a characteristic or natural sound
- (by extension) To be able to communicate in the manner of specialists in a field.
- (intransitive, reciprocal) To have a conversation.
- (intransitive) To produce a sound; to sound.
- (by extension) To communicate or converse by some means other than orally, such as writing or facial expressions.
- (transitive) To communicate (some fact or feeling); to bespeak, to indicate.
- Of a bird, to be able to vocally reproduce words or phrases from a human language.
- (informal, transitive, sometimes humorous) To understand (as though it were a language).
- (transitive) To utter.
- (transitive, stative) To be able to communicate in a language.
- (intransitive) To deliver a message to a group; to deliver a speech.
- (intransitive) To communicate with one's voice, to say words out loud.
noun
verb
- exchange thoughts; talk with
- express in speech
- use language
- divulge confidential information or secrets
- deliver a lecture or talk
- reveal information
- (intransitive, slang) To confess, especially implicating others.
- (transitive) To speak (a certain language).
- (intransitive) To communicate, usually by means of speech.
- (intransitive) To gossip; to create scandal.
- (transitive) To manifest outwardly in speech, as opposed to reality or action.
- (transitive, informal, chiefly used in progressive tenses) Used to emphasise the importance, size, complexity etc. of the thing mentioned.
- (transitive, informal) To discuss; to talk about.
- (intransitive) To criticize someone for something of which one is guilty oneself.
- (informal, chiefly used in progressive tenses) To influence someone to express something, especially a particular stance or viewpoint or in a particular manner.
noun
- an exchange of ideas via conversation
- A conversation or discussion; usually serious, but informal.
- a speech that is open to the public
- discussion; (‘talk about’ is a less formal alternative for ‘discussion of’)
- idle gossip or rumor
- the act of giving a talk to an audience
- (preceded by the; often qualified by a following of) A major topic of social discussion.
- A customary conversation in which parent(s) explain sexual intercourse to their child.
- (uncountable) Gossip; rumour.
- (uncountable, not preceded by an article) Empty boasting, promises or claims.
- (usually in the plural) Meeting to discuss a particular matter.
- (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.
- A lecture.
noun
- Communication, conversation.
- Dealings with people, including commerce and trade.
- Dealings between countries.
- Sexual intercourse, especially that involving humans and especially penile-vaginal interconnection.
- communication between individuals
- sexual activity between individuals, especially the insertion of a man's penis into a woman's vagina until orgasm and ejaculation occur
verb
noun
- an informal conversation
- birds having a chattering call
- songbirds having a chattering call
- (by extension, nonstandard, humorous) Familiar term of address for users on social media other than a chat room, as in "guys."
- (Internet, uncountable, with or without "the") A chat room, especially (in later use) one accompanying a videoconference or live stream.
- A small potato, such as is given to swine.
- (British, Australia, New Zealand, World War I military slang) A louse (small, parasitic insect).
- (countable) Any of various small Old World passerine birds in the muscicapid tribe Saxicolini or subfamily Saxicolinae that feed on insects.
- (metonymic, originally video games) The entirety of users, viewed collectively, in a chat room, especially the chat room accompanying a live stream.
- (countable, uncountable) Informal conversation.
- (countable, uncountable) An exchange of text or voice messages in real time through a computer network, resembling a face-to-face conversation.
- Alternative form of chaat.
- (countable) Any of several small Australian honeyeaters in the genus Epthianura.
- (mining, local use) Mining waste from lead and zinc mines.
verb
- To be engaged in informal conversation.
- talk socially without exchanging too much information
- (transitive) To talk of; to discuss.
- (informal, slang, often as chatting) To chat shit (to speak nonsense, to lie).
- To exchange text or voice messages in real time through a computer network such as a social media chat room or messaging application (as if having a face-to-face conversation instead of SMS or writing emails or letters).
- To talk more than a few words.
intj
noun
- an informal conversation
- A casual conversation; a chat.
- (psychiatry) a plausible but imagined memory that fills in gaps in what is remembered
- (informal) An assertion, statement, or text generated by a generative AI that is presented by that AI as if it were true but is in fact a made-up, false notion.
- (psychology) A fabricated memory believed to be true, especially in someone with dementia or with encephalopathy from advanced alcoholism.
noun
- A brief discussion or conversation.
- An order; a request or instruction; an expression of will.
- (computing) A fixed-size group of bits handled as a unit by a machine and which can be stored in or retrieved from a typical register (so that it has the same size as such a register).
- (theology, sometimes Word) Logos, Christ.
- The smallest discrete unit of written language with a particular meaning, composed of one or more letters or symbols and one or more morphemes
- The smallest discrete unit of spoken language with a particular meaning, composed of one or more phonemes and one or more morphemes
- (group theory) A group element, expressed as a product of group elements.
- (computer science) A finite string that is not a command or operator.
- (now rare outside certain phrases) Something that someone said; a comment, utterance; speech.
- (uncountable) News; tidings.
- A sequence of letters, characters, or sounds, considered as a discrete entity, though it does not necessarily belong to a language or have a meaning.
- (computing) With regards to Intel or Intel-compatible hardware and/or in the context of Windows programming, a group of exactly 16 bits regardless of the actual processor capabilities; a fossilized unit referring to the small word size of historical CPUs.
- (meiosis) A minor reprimand.
- (in the plural) See words.
- (telegraphy) A unit of text equivalent to five characters and one space.
- (obsolete outside certain phrases) A watchword or rallying cry, a verbal signal (even when consisting of multiple words).
- The fact or act of speaking, as opposed to taking action. .
- (theology, sometimes Word) Communication from God; the message of the Christian gospel; the Bible, Scripture.
- A promise; an oath or guarantee.
- A discrete, meaningful unit of language approved by an authority or native speaker (compare non-word).
- (semantics) The smallest unit of language that has a particular meaning and can be expressed by itself; the smallest discrete, meaningful unit of language. (contrast morpheme.)
- an exchange of views on some topic
- a secret word or phrase known only to a restricted group
- a promise
- information about recent and important events
- a verbal command for action
- a unit of language that native speakers can identify
- a string of bits stored in computer memory
- a brief statement
intj
verb
noun
- the speech act of continuing a conversational exchange
- a statement (either spoken or written) that is made to reply to a question or request or criticism or accusation
- (US, law) A document written by a party specifically replying to a responsive declaration and in some cases an answer.
- A counterattack.
- (music) The answer of a figure.
- Something given in reply.
- A written or spoken response; part of a conversation.
verb
noun
- the speech act of continuing a conversational exchange
- the manner in which something is greeted
- the manner in which an electrical or mechanical device responds to an input signal or a range of input signals
- a bodily process occurring due to the effect of some antecedent stimulus or agent
- a result
- a phrase recited or sung by the congregation following a versicle by the priest or minister
- a statement (either spoken or written) that is made to reply to a question or request or criticism or accusation
- An oracular answer.
- A reaction to a stimulus or provocation.
- (liturgics) A versicle or anthem said or sung during or after a lection; a respond or responsory.
- (liturgics) A verse, sentence, phrase, or word said or sung by the choir or congregation in sequence or reply to the priest or officiant.
- An answer or reply, or something in the nature of an answer or reply.
- An online advertising performance metric representing one click-through from an online ad to its destination URL.
- A reply to an objection in formal disputation.
- The act of responding or replying; reply: as, to speak in response to a question.
verb
adj
noun
- a proposition obtained by conversion
- (graph theory) Synonym of transpose.
- (now literary) Free verbal interchange of thoughts or views; conversation; chat.
- (logic) Of a proposition or theorem consisting of a statement of the form "If A is true, then B is true", the statement "If B is true, then A is true" which need not be equivalent to the first one.
- The opposite or reverse.
- (semantics) One of a pair of terms that name or describe a relationship from opposite perspectives; converse antonym; relational antonym.
verb
- carry on a conversation
- to consider or examine in speech or writing
- talk at length and formally about a topic
- (intransitive) To engage in discussion or conversation; to converse.
- To exercise reason; to employ the mind in judging and inferring; to reason.
- (intransitive) To write or speak formally and at length.
noun
- (countable) A conversation.
- an address of a religious nature (usually delivered during a church service)
- extended verbal expression in speech or writing
- an extended communication (often interactive) dealing with some particular topic
- (social sciences, countable) An institutionalized way of thinking, a social boundary defining what can be said about a specific topic (after Michel Foucault).
- (countable) Any rational expression, reason.
- (countable) A formal lengthy exposition of some subject, either spoken or written.
- (uncountable) Expression in words, either speech or writing.
- (Internet, uncountable) Lengthy, often heated debate over controversial subject matter, particularly within fandom and activist spaces. Sometimes rendered as a proper noun with the definite article (i.e. "the Discourse").
adj
verb
- To converse, discuss, or speak with another.
- (informal) To fly a helicopter or be flown in a helicopter.
- (intransitive) To do something suddenly with an unexpected motion; to catch or attempt to seize.
- (slang, transitive) To have sex with.
- (intransitive) To interrupt; with in or out.
- (transitive, figurative) To separate or divide.
- (transitive) To cut into pieces with short, vigorous cutting motions.
- (slang, transitive) To manipulate or separate out a line of cocaine.
- (poker) To divide the pot (or tournament prize) between two or more players.
- (transitive, Hong Kong) To stab.
- (computing, transitive, Perl) To remove the final character from (a text string).
- (transitive, baseball) To hit the ball downward so that it takes a high bounce.
- To chap or crack.
- To seal a licence or passport.
- (transitive) to give a downward cutting blow or movement, typically with the side of the hand.
- (transitive) To sever with an axe or similar implement.
- (nautical) To vary or shift suddenly.
- (transitive, colloquial, India, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei) To stamp or seal (a document); to mark, impress or otherwise place a design or symbol on paper or other material, usually, but not necessarily, to indicate authenticity.
- (intransitive) To make a quick, heavy stroke or a series of strokes, with or as with an ax.
- cut into pieces with repeated blows
- hit sharply
- cut with a hacking tool
- strike sharply, as in some sports
- move suddenly
- form or shape by chopping
noun
- A cut of meat, often containing a section of a rib.
- (chiefly in the plural) A jaw of an animal.
- A blow with an axe, cleaver, or similar implement.
- (poker) A hand where two or more players have an equal-valued hand, resulting in the chips being shared equally between them.
- (informal, with "the") Termination, especially from employment; the sack.
- (colloquial, India, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei) A stamp or seal; a mark, imprint or impression on a document (or other object or material) made by stamping or sealing a design with ink or wax, respectively, or by other methods.
- (uncountable) Aircraft turbulence.
- Ocean waves, generally caused by wind, distinguished from swell by being smaller and not lasting as long.
- A movable jaw or cheek, as of a vice.
- A licence or passport that has been sealed.
- (MLE, slang) A knife, especially one used as a weapon.
- A mark indicating nature, quality, or brand.
- (Australia, New Zealand) A woodchopping competition.
- A turn of fortune; change; a vicissitude.
- A complete shipment.
- (martial arts) A blow delivered with the hand rigid and outstretched.
- The land at each side of the mouth of a river, harbour, or channel.
- (Internet) An IRC channel operator.
- (UK, slang) Cocaine.
- (colloquial, by extension, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei) The device used for stamping or sealing, which also contains the design to be imprinted.
- a grounder that bounces high in the air
- a tennis return made with a downward motion that puts backspin on the ball
- the irregular motion of waves (usually caused by wind blowing in a direction opposite to the tide)
- a jaw
- a small cut of meat including part of a rib
verb
- (ambitransitive) To draw into conversation.
- (transitive) To arrange to employ or use (a worker, a space, etc.).
- (intransitive) To guarantee or promise (to do something).
- (transitive) To enter into conflict with (an enemy).
- (intransitive) To enter into battle.
- (transitive) To engross or hold the attention of; to keep busy or occupied.
- To attract, to please; (archaic) to fascinate or win over (someone).
- (transitive) To bind through legal or moral obligation (to do something, especially to marry) (usually in passive).
- To mesh or interlock (of machinery, especially a clutch).
- (engineering, transitive) To come into gear with.
- keep engaged
- hire for work or assistance
- carry on (wars, battles, or campaigns)
- carry out or participate in an activity; be involved in
- give to in marriage
- get caught
- consume all of one's attention or time
- engage or hire for work
- engage for service under a term of contract
- ask to represent; of legal counsel
adj
- Capable of engaging in conversation.
- (of a person) Easy in conversation, chatty.
- Of, relating to, or in the style of a conversation; informal and chatty.
- (computing) Involving a two-way exchange of messages, such as between a client and a server.
- characteristic of informal spoken language or conversation
adj
noun
noun
- Conversation that is incidental to the topic under discussion.
- (electronics) Undesirable signals from a neighbouring transmission circuit; undesired coupling between circuits.
- A traditional Chinese comedic performance in the form of a dialogue.
- Communication between parties who have extremely different perspectives.
- (biology) The situation where one or more components of a signal transduction pathway affect another pathway.
- the presence of an unwanted signal via an accidental coupling
verb
noun
- the subject matter of a conversation or discussion
- some situation or event that is thought about
- (logic) the first term of a proposition
- a person who owes allegiance to that nation
- (grammar) one of the two main constituents of a sentence; the grammatical constituent about which something is predicated
- something (a person or object or scene) selected by an artist or photographer for graphic representation
- a branch of knowledge
- a person who is subjected to experimental or other observational procedures; someone who is an object of investigation
- By faulty generalisation from a clause's grammatical subject often being coinstantiated with one: an actor or agent; one who takes action.
- A particular area of study.
- A citizen in a monarchy.
- (grammar) The noun, pronoun or noun phrase about whom the statement is made. In active clauses with verbs denoting an action, the subject is the actor. In clauses in the passive voice the subject is the target of the action.
- The main topic of a paper, work of art, discussion, field of study, etc.
- A human, animal, or an inanimate object that is being examined, treated, analysed, etc; especially, one being studied in a scientific experiment, such as a clinical trial.
- (music) The main theme or melody, especially in a fugue.
- (logic) That of which something is stated.
- A person ruled over by another, especially a monarch or state authority.
- (mathematics) The variable in terms of which an expression is defined.
- (philosophy) A being that has subjective experiences, subjective consciousness, or a relationship with another entity.
adj
- likely to be affected by something
- being under the power or sovereignty of another or others
- possibly accepting or permitting
- Conditional upon something; used with to.
- Likely to be affected by or to experience something; liable.
- Placed under the power of another; owing allegiance to a particular sovereign or state.
- Placed or situated under; lying below, or in a lower situation.
verb
- make subservient; force to submit or subdue
- cause to experience or suffer or make liable or vulnerable to
- make accountable for
- (transitive, construed with to) To cause (someone or something) to undergo a particular experience, especially one that is unpleasant or unwanted.
- (transitive) To make subordinate or subservient; to subdue or enslave; to subjugate.
noun
- the subject matter of a conversation or discussion
- an essay (especially one written as an assignment)
- a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in literary or artistic work
- (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed
- (music) melodic subject of a musical composition
- (crosswording) An additional puzzle within the crossword, typically involving a set of non-standard clues or answers.
- A concept with multiple instantiations.
- (music) The main melody of a piece of music, especially one that is the source of variations.
- A subject, now especially of a talk or an artistic piece; a topic.
- (linguistics) Theta role in generative grammar and government and binding theory.
- Any of various colors, or color palettes, in which a design is offered; (graphical user interface) any of various skins for an app, affecting the visuals and perhaps other elements such as sound effects.
- (linguistics) Topic, what is generally being talked about.
- A regional unit of organisation in the Byzantine empire.
- (linguistics) Thematic relation of a noun phrase to a verb.
- (film, television, video games) A song, or a snippet of a song, that identifies a film, a TV program, a character, etc. by playing at the appropriate time.
- (grammar) The stem of a word.
verb
noun
- the subject matter of a conversation or discussion
- some situation or event that is thought about
- (music) A musical sign intended to suggest a particular style or genre.
- (Internet) Discussion thread.
- Subject; theme; a category or general area of interest.
- (computing) A component similar to a message queue which supports multiple subscribers.
adj
verb
- To interrupt someone while they are speaking.
- (Uno) To play a card that matches the top card in the discard pile out of turn.
- To join in on an activity quickly.
- (US slang) To initiate into an organization, usually a gang, with violence.
- To enter something quickly, usually a mode of transport.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see jump, in.
noun
- voluble conversation
- genre of African-American music of the 1980s and 1990s in which rhyming lyrics are chanted to a musical accompaniment; several forms of rap have emerged
- a reproach for some lapse or misdeed
- the sound made by a gentle blow
- a gentle blow
- the act of hitting vigorously
- (slang, with definite article) The blame for something.
- (Australia, informal) A positive appraisal; a recommendation.
- A song, verse, or instance of singing in the style of rap music.
- (music, uncountable) Rap music.
- (historical) Any of the tokens that passed current for a halfpenny in Ireland in the early part of the eighteenth century; any coin of trifling value.
- (Australia, informal) An appraisal.
- (US, law enforcement) Acronym of record of arrest and prosecution.
- (countable) A sharp blow with something hard.
- (informal) A casual talk.
- (countable, slang) A charge, whether or not it results in a conviction.
- A whit; a jot.
- A lea or skein of yarn that forms the standard length taken from the reel, 80 yards of worsted or 120 yards of silk or cotton.
verb
- talk volubly
- perform rap music
- strike sharply
- make light, repeated taps on a surface
- To utter quickly and sharply.
- (transitive) To seize and carry off.
- (intransitive) To strike something sharply with one's knuckles; knock.
- (informal, intransitive) To talk casually; to engage in conversation.
- to rappel
- (transitive) To transport out of oneself; to affect with rapture.
- (ambitransitive) To speak (lyrics) in the style of rap music.
- (metalworking) To free (a pattern) in a mould by light blows on the pattern, so as to facilitate its removal.
verb
- be in verbal contact; interchange information or ideas
- administer Communion; in church
- transfer to another
- transmit information
- receive Communion, in the Catholic church
- transmit thoughts or feelings
- join or connect
- (transitive, Christianity) To administer the Holy Communion to (someone).
- (transitive) To impart or transmit (information or knowledge) to someone; to make known, to tell.
- (intransitive, Christianity) To receive the bread and wine at a celebration of the Eucharist; to take part in Holy Communion.
- (intransitive) To be connected by means of an opening or channel [with with ‘another room, vessel etc.’].
- (transitive) To pass on (a disease) to another person, animal etc.
- (intransitive) To express or convey ideas, either through verbal or nonverbal means; to have intercourse, to exchange information.
- (transitive) To impart or transmit (an intangible quantity, substance); to give a share of.
verb
- speak with others about (something); talk (something) over in detail; have a discussion
- to consider or examine in speech or writing
- (transitive) To converse or debate concerning a particular topic.
- (transitive, law) To examine or search thoroughly; to exhaust a remedy against, as against a principal debtor before proceeding against the surety.
noun
- A conversation.
- (finance) The difference between the values of money in different places.
- (usually with "the") The loss of a minor piece (typically a bishop or knight) and associated capture of the more advantageous rook.
- (telephony) A central office.
- (law, England and Wales, Northern Ireland) Clipping of exchange of contracts.
- (biochemistry) The transfer of substances or elements like gas, amino-acids, ions etc. sometimes through a surface like a membrane.
- An act of exchanging or trading.
- A place for conducting trading.
- (telephony) The portion of a telephone number that represents (or formerly represented) a central office.
- (chess) The loss of one piece and associated capture of another.
- a mutual expression of views (especially an unpleasant one)
- (chess) the capture by both players (usually on consecutive moves) of pieces of equal value
- chemical process in which one atom or ion or group changes places with another
- (sports) an unbroken sequence of several successive strokes
- the act of changing one thing for another thing
- a workplace that serves as a telecommunications facility where lines from telephones can be connected together to permit communication
- the act of putting one thing or person in the place of another:
- (chess) gaining (or losing) a rook in return for a knight or bishop
- a workplace for buying and selling; open only to members
- the act of giving something in return for something received
- reciprocal transfer of equivalent sums of money (especially the currencies of different countries)
verb
- (transitive) To trade or barter.
- (transitive, figurative) To mutually direct at each other.
- (law, England and Wales, Northern Ireland) Clipping of exchange contracts.
- (transitive) To replace with, as a substitute.
- (transitive) To recommend and get recommendations.
- put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items
- exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category
- change over, change around, as to a new order or sequence
- exchange a penalty for a less severe one
- give to, and receive from, one another
- hand over one and receive another, approximately equivalent
noun
- A conversation or exchange between people.
- The situation or occurrence in which two or more objects or events act upon one another to produce an effect; the effect resulting from such a situation or occurrence.
- (physics) the transfer of energy between elementary particles or between an elementary particle and a field or between fields; mediated by gauge bosons
- a mutual or reciprocal action; interacting
noun
- a conversation between two persons
- A conversation or other form of discourse between two or more individuals.
- a discussion intended to produce an agreement
- a literary composition in the form of a conversation between two people
- the lines spoken by characters in drama or fiction
- (authorship) In a dramatic or literary presentation, the verbal parts of the script or text; the verbalizations of the actors or characters.
- (computing) Nonstandard form of dialog (“dialog box”).
- (philosophy) A literary form, where the presentation resembles a conversation.
verb
noun
- A conversation or dialogue.
- A written discourse.
- (classical studies) A collection of scripted dialogues written as a textbook, or a set of exercises, to help students to practice and improve their Latin or Ancient Greek. See: Colloquy
- (law) A discussion during a trial in which a judge ensures that the defendant understands what is taking place in the trial and what his or her rights are.
- (Christianity) A church court held by certain Reformed denominations.
- a conversation especially a formal one
- formal conversation
verb
noun
- a person who takes part in a conversation
- a performer in the middle of a minstrel line who engages the others in talk
- (law) An interlocutory judgement or sentence.
- A person who takes part in dialogue or conversation: a locutive partner.
- A man in the middle of the line in a minstrel show who questions the endmen and acts as leader.
- (Scots law) A decree of a court.
noun
- Communication, conversation.
- Dealings with people, including commerce and trade.
- Dealings between countries.
- Sexual intercourse, especially that involving humans and especially penile-vaginal interconnection.
- communication between individuals
- sexual activity between individuals, especially the insertion of a man's penis into a woman's vagina until orgasm and ejaculation occur
verb
noun
- an informal conversation
- birds having a chattering call
- songbirds having a chattering call
- (by extension, nonstandard, humorous) Familiar term of address for users on social media other than a chat room, as in "guys."
- (Internet, uncountable, with or without "the") A chat room, especially (in later use) one accompanying a videoconference or live stream.
- A small potato, such as is given to swine.
- (British, Australia, New Zealand, World War I military slang) A louse (small, parasitic insect).
- (countable) Any of various small Old World passerine birds in the muscicapid tribe Saxicolini or subfamily Saxicolinae that feed on insects.
- (metonymic, originally video games) The entirety of users, viewed collectively, in a chat room, especially the chat room accompanying a live stream.
- (countable, uncountable) Informal conversation.
- (countable, uncountable) An exchange of text or voice messages in real time through a computer network, resembling a face-to-face conversation.
- Alternative form of chaat.
- (countable) Any of several small Australian honeyeaters in the genus Epthianura.
- (mining, local use) Mining waste from lead and zinc mines.
verb
- To be engaged in informal conversation.
- talk socially without exchanging too much information
- (transitive) To talk of; to discuss.
- (informal, slang, often as chatting) To chat shit (to speak nonsense, to lie).
- To exchange text or voice messages in real time through a computer network such as a social media chat room or messaging application (as if having a face-to-face conversation instead of SMS or writing emails or letters).
- To talk more than a few words.
intj
noun
- an informal conversation
- A casual conversation; a chat.
- (psychiatry) a plausible but imagined memory that fills in gaps in what is remembered
- (informal) An assertion, statement, or text generated by a generative AI that is presented by that AI as if it were true but is in fact a made-up, false notion.
- (psychology) A fabricated memory believed to be true, especially in someone with dementia or with encephalopathy from advanced alcoholism.
noun
- A brief discussion or conversation.
- An order; a request or instruction; an expression of will.
- (computing) A fixed-size group of bits handled as a unit by a machine and which can be stored in or retrieved from a typical register (so that it has the same size as such a register).
- (theology, sometimes Word) Logos, Christ.
- The smallest discrete unit of written language with a particular meaning, composed of one or more letters or symbols and one or more morphemes
- The smallest discrete unit of spoken language with a particular meaning, composed of one or more phonemes and one or more morphemes
- (group theory) A group element, expressed as a product of group elements.
- (computer science) A finite string that is not a command or operator.
- (now rare outside certain phrases) Something that someone said; a comment, utterance; speech.
- (uncountable) News; tidings.
- A sequence of letters, characters, or sounds, considered as a discrete entity, though it does not necessarily belong to a language or have a meaning.
- (computing) With regards to Intel or Intel-compatible hardware and/or in the context of Windows programming, a group of exactly 16 bits regardless of the actual processor capabilities; a fossilized unit referring to the small word size of historical CPUs.
- (meiosis) A minor reprimand.
- (in the plural) See words.
- (telegraphy) A unit of text equivalent to five characters and one space.
- (obsolete outside certain phrases) A watchword or rallying cry, a verbal signal (even when consisting of multiple words).
- The fact or act of speaking, as opposed to taking action. .
- (theology, sometimes Word) Communication from God; the message of the Christian gospel; the Bible, Scripture.
- A promise; an oath or guarantee.
- A discrete, meaningful unit of language approved by an authority or native speaker (compare non-word).
- (semantics) The smallest unit of language that has a particular meaning and can be expressed by itself; the smallest discrete, meaningful unit of language. (contrast morpheme.)
- an exchange of views on some topic
- a secret word or phrase known only to a restricted group
- a promise
- information about recent and important events
- a verbal command for action
- a unit of language that native speakers can identify
- a string of bits stored in computer memory
- a brief statement
intj
verb
noun
- the speech act of continuing a conversational exchange
- a statement (either spoken or written) that is made to reply to a question or request or criticism or accusation
- (US, law) A document written by a party specifically replying to a responsive declaration and in some cases an answer.
- A counterattack.
- (music) The answer of a figure.
- Something given in reply.
- A written or spoken response; part of a conversation.
verb
noun
- the speech act of continuing a conversational exchange
- the manner in which something is greeted
- the manner in which an electrical or mechanical device responds to an input signal or a range of input signals
- a bodily process occurring due to the effect of some antecedent stimulus or agent
- a result
- a phrase recited or sung by the congregation following a versicle by the priest or minister
- a statement (either spoken or written) that is made to reply to a question or request or criticism or accusation
- An oracular answer.
- A reaction to a stimulus or provocation.
- (liturgics) A versicle or anthem said or sung during or after a lection; a respond or responsory.
- (liturgics) A verse, sentence, phrase, or word said or sung by the choir or congregation in sequence or reply to the priest or officiant.
- An answer or reply, or something in the nature of an answer or reply.
- An online advertising performance metric representing one click-through from an online ad to its destination URL.
- A reply to an objection in formal disputation.
- The act of responding or replying; reply: as, to speak in response to a question.
verb
- exchange thoughts; talk with
- express in speech
- use language
- divulge confidential information or secrets
- deliver a lecture or talk
- reveal information
- (intransitive, slang) To confess, especially implicating others.
- (transitive) To speak (a certain language).
- (intransitive) To communicate, usually by means of speech.
- (intransitive) To gossip; to create scandal.
- (transitive) To manifest outwardly in speech, as opposed to reality or action.
- (transitive, informal, chiefly used in progressive tenses) Used to emphasise the importance, size, complexity etc. of the thing mentioned.
- (transitive, informal) To discuss; to talk about.
- (intransitive) To criticize someone for something of which one is guilty oneself.
- (informal, chiefly used in progressive tenses) To influence someone to express something, especially a particular stance or viewpoint or in a particular manner.
noun
- an exchange of ideas via conversation
- A conversation or discussion; usually serious, but informal.
- a speech that is open to the public
- discussion; (‘talk about’ is a less formal alternative for ‘discussion of’)
- idle gossip or rumor
- the act of giving a talk to an audience
- (preceded by the; often qualified by a following of) A major topic of social discussion.
- A customary conversation in which parent(s) explain sexual intercourse to their child.
- (uncountable) Gossip; rumour.
- (uncountable, not preceded by an article) Empty boasting, promises or claims.
- (usually in the plural) Meeting to discuss a particular matter.
- (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.
- A lecture.
verb
- carry on a conversation
- to consider or examine in speech or writing
- talk at length and formally about a topic
- (intransitive) To engage in discussion or conversation; to converse.
- To exercise reason; to employ the mind in judging and inferring; to reason.
- (intransitive) To write or speak formally and at length.
noun
- (countable) A conversation.
- an address of a religious nature (usually delivered during a church service)
- extended verbal expression in speech or writing
- an extended communication (often interactive) dealing with some particular topic
- (social sciences, countable) An institutionalized way of thinking, a social boundary defining what can be said about a specific topic (after Michel Foucault).
- (countable) Any rational expression, reason.
- (countable) A formal lengthy exposition of some subject, either spoken or written.
- (uncountable) Expression in words, either speech or writing.
- (Internet, uncountable) Lengthy, often heated debate over controversial subject matter, particularly within fandom and activist spaces. Sometimes rendered as a proper noun with the definite article (i.e. "the Discourse").
noun
- Conversation that is incidental to the topic under discussion.
- (electronics) Undesirable signals from a neighbouring transmission circuit; undesired coupling between circuits.
- A traditional Chinese comedic performance in the form of a dialogue.
- Communication between parties who have extremely different perspectives.
- (biology) The situation where one or more components of a signal transduction pathway affect another pathway.
- the presence of an unwanted signal via an accidental coupling
verb
noun
- the subject matter of a conversation or discussion
- some situation or event that is thought about
- (logic) the first term of a proposition
- a person who owes allegiance to that nation
- (grammar) one of the two main constituents of a sentence; the grammatical constituent about which something is predicated
- something (a person or object or scene) selected by an artist or photographer for graphic representation
- a branch of knowledge
- a person who is subjected to experimental or other observational procedures; someone who is an object of investigation
- By faulty generalisation from a clause's grammatical subject often being coinstantiated with one: an actor or agent; one who takes action.
- A particular area of study.
- A citizen in a monarchy.
- (grammar) The noun, pronoun or noun phrase about whom the statement is made. In active clauses with verbs denoting an action, the subject is the actor. In clauses in the passive voice the subject is the target of the action.
- The main topic of a paper, work of art, discussion, field of study, etc.
- A human, animal, or an inanimate object that is being examined, treated, analysed, etc; especially, one being studied in a scientific experiment, such as a clinical trial.
- (music) The main theme or melody, especially in a fugue.
- (logic) That of which something is stated.
- A person ruled over by another, especially a monarch or state authority.
- (mathematics) The variable in terms of which an expression is defined.
- (philosophy) A being that has subjective experiences, subjective consciousness, or a relationship with another entity.
adj
- likely to be affected by something
- being under the power or sovereignty of another or others
- possibly accepting or permitting
- Conditional upon something; used with to.
- Likely to be affected by or to experience something; liable.
- Placed under the power of another; owing allegiance to a particular sovereign or state.
- Placed or situated under; lying below, or in a lower situation.
verb
- make subservient; force to submit or subdue
- cause to experience or suffer or make liable or vulnerable to
- make accountable for
- (transitive, construed with to) To cause (someone or something) to undergo a particular experience, especially one that is unpleasant or unwanted.
- (transitive) To make subordinate or subservient; to subdue or enslave; to subjugate.
noun
- the subject matter of a conversation or discussion
- an essay (especially one written as an assignment)
- a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in literary or artistic work
- (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed
- (music) melodic subject of a musical composition
- (crosswording) An additional puzzle within the crossword, typically involving a set of non-standard clues or answers.
- A concept with multiple instantiations.
- (music) The main melody of a piece of music, especially one that is the source of variations.
- A subject, now especially of a talk or an artistic piece; a topic.
- (linguistics) Theta role in generative grammar and government and binding theory.
- Any of various colors, or color palettes, in which a design is offered; (graphical user interface) any of various skins for an app, affecting the visuals and perhaps other elements such as sound effects.
- (linguistics) Topic, what is generally being talked about.
- A regional unit of organisation in the Byzantine empire.
- (linguistics) Thematic relation of a noun phrase to a verb.
- (film, television, video games) A song, or a snippet of a song, that identifies a film, a TV program, a character, etc. by playing at the appropriate time.
- (grammar) The stem of a word.
verb
noun
- the subject matter of a conversation or discussion
- some situation or event that is thought about
- (music) A musical sign intended to suggest a particular style or genre.
- (Internet) Discussion thread.
- Subject; theme; a category or general area of interest.
- (computing) A component similar to a message queue which supports multiple subscribers.
adj
noun
- voluble conversation
- genre of African-American music of the 1980s and 1990s in which rhyming lyrics are chanted to a musical accompaniment; several forms of rap have emerged
- a reproach for some lapse or misdeed
- the sound made by a gentle blow
- a gentle blow
- the act of hitting vigorously
- (slang, with definite article) The blame for something.
- (Australia, informal) A positive appraisal; a recommendation.
- A song, verse, or instance of singing in the style of rap music.
- (music, uncountable) Rap music.
- (historical) Any of the tokens that passed current for a halfpenny in Ireland in the early part of the eighteenth century; any coin of trifling value.
- (Australia, informal) An appraisal.
- (US, law enforcement) Acronym of record of arrest and prosecution.
- (countable) A sharp blow with something hard.
- (informal) A casual talk.
- (countable, slang) A charge, whether or not it results in a conviction.
- A whit; a jot.
- A lea or skein of yarn that forms the standard length taken from the reel, 80 yards of worsted or 120 yards of silk or cotton.
verb
- talk volubly
- perform rap music
- strike sharply
- make light, repeated taps on a surface
- To utter quickly and sharply.
- (transitive) To seize and carry off.
- (intransitive) To strike something sharply with one's knuckles; knock.
- (informal, intransitive) To talk casually; to engage in conversation.
- to rappel
- (transitive) To transport out of oneself; to affect with rapture.
- (ambitransitive) To speak (lyrics) in the style of rap music.
- (metalworking) To free (a pattern) in a mould by light blows on the pattern, so as to facilitate its removal.
verb
- break into a conversation
- (intransitive) To interrupt one's conversation; speak before another person has finished speaking.
- enter someone's (virtual or real) property in an unauthorized manner, usually with the intent to steal or commit a violent act
- intrude on uninvited
- start in a certain activity, enterprise, or role
- make submissive, obedient, or useful
- break so as to fall inward
- (ambitransitive, ergative, idiomatic) To reach a state of functioning more smoothly through use or wear; to cause (something, or someone, new) to undergo this change.
- (transitive, idiomatic) Starting something brand new or at a new level.
- (transitive, colloquial) To take the virginity of a girl, to deflower.
- (intransitive) To enter a place by force or illicit means.
- (transitive, slang) To initiate a new person into prostitution or prison sex acts.
- (transitive, of a horse) To tame; make obedient; to train to follow orders of the owner.
verb
- break into a conversation
- (intransitive, slang) To unfairly push in on (something); to gain a role in (something unsavory); to acquire a partial interest in (something) through deceit.
- (intransitive) To barge in on something; to be a third wheel; to insinuate oneself into a situation or relationship; to get oneself involved in something.
verb
- break into a conversation
- allow someone to have a share or profit
- interrupt a dancing couple in order to take one of them as one's own partner
- drive in front of another vehicle leaving too little space for that vehicle to maneuver comfortably
- mix in with cutting motions
- To intrude or interrupt.
- (surfing) To begin riding a wave in front of someone else whose legitimate turn it is.
- To pull in front of another vehicle in traffic, especially to do so dangerously or unfairly.
- To join a queue in the middle, as opposed to at the back.
- (transitive, slang) To include; to allow (someone) to participate in something.
- (transitive, slang) To give (someone) a share of something.
- When painting, to paint edges, corners, or trim in preparation for rolling larger areas.
- (intransitive, slang) To take a share of something; to push one's way into a project, game or plan.
- To take up a portion of.
verb
- break into a conversation
- keep or lay aside for future use
- place, fit, or thrust (something) into another thing
- to insert between other elements
- make an application as for a job or funding
- set up for use
- (transitive) To place inside.
- (transitive) To fill in on a form or questionnaire; to use as an answer on a form or questionnaire.
- (transitive) To contribute.
- (transitive) To declare or make official
- (intransitive) To apply, request, or submit.
- (transitive) To install or deliver.
- (transitive) To plant a crop.
- (transitive) To make (a telephone call).
- (transitive, ditransitive) To imprison or place in a prison cell.
- (transitive, slang, African-American Vernacular) To injure the body of (someone).
verb
- exchange thoughts; talk with
- express in speech
- use language
- give a speech to
- make a characteristic or natural sound
- (by extension) To be able to communicate in the manner of specialists in a field.
- (intransitive, reciprocal) To have a conversation.
- (intransitive) To produce a sound; to sound.
- (by extension) To communicate or converse by some means other than orally, such as writing or facial expressions.
- (transitive) To communicate (some fact or feeling); to bespeak, to indicate.
- Of a bird, to be able to vocally reproduce words or phrases from a human language.
- (informal, transitive, sometimes humorous) To understand (as though it were a language).
- (transitive) To utter.
- (transitive, stative) To be able to communicate in a language.
- (intransitive) To deliver a message to a group; to deliver a speech.
- (intransitive) To communicate with one's voice, to say words out loud.
noun
verb
- exchange thoughts; talk with
- express in speech
- use language
- divulge confidential information or secrets
- deliver a lecture or talk
- reveal information
- (intransitive, slang) To confess, especially implicating others.
- (transitive) To speak (a certain language).
- (intransitive) To communicate, usually by means of speech.
- (intransitive) To gossip; to create scandal.
- (transitive) To manifest outwardly in speech, as opposed to reality or action.
- (transitive, informal, chiefly used in progressive tenses) Used to emphasise the importance, size, complexity etc. of the thing mentioned.
- (transitive, informal) To discuss; to talk about.
- (intransitive) To criticize someone for something of which one is guilty oneself.
- (informal, chiefly used in progressive tenses) To influence someone to express something, especially a particular stance or viewpoint or in a particular manner.
noun
- an exchange of ideas via conversation
- A conversation or discussion; usually serious, but informal.
- a speech that is open to the public
- discussion; (‘talk about’ is a less formal alternative for ‘discussion of’)
- idle gossip or rumor
- the act of giving a talk to an audience
- (preceded by the; often qualified by a following of) A major topic of social discussion.
- A customary conversation in which parent(s) explain sexual intercourse to their child.
- (uncountable) Gossip; rumour.
- (uncountable, not preceded by an article) Empty boasting, promises or claims.
- (usually in the plural) Meeting to discuss a particular matter.
- (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.
- A lecture.
verb
adj
noun
- a proposition obtained by conversion
- (graph theory) Synonym of transpose.
- (now literary) Free verbal interchange of thoughts or views; conversation; chat.
- (logic) Of a proposition or theorem consisting of a statement of the form "If A is true, then B is true", the statement "If B is true, then A is true" which need not be equivalent to the first one.
- The opposite or reverse.
- (semantics) One of a pair of terms that name or describe a relationship from opposite perspectives; converse antonym; relational antonym.
verb
- carry on a conversation
- to consider or examine in speech or writing
- talk at length and formally about a topic
- (intransitive) To engage in discussion or conversation; to converse.
- To exercise reason; to employ the mind in judging and inferring; to reason.
- (intransitive) To write or speak formally and at length.
noun
- (countable) A conversation.
- an address of a religious nature (usually delivered during a church service)
- extended verbal expression in speech or writing
- an extended communication (often interactive) dealing with some particular topic
- (social sciences, countable) An institutionalized way of thinking, a social boundary defining what can be said about a specific topic (after Michel Foucault).
- (countable) Any rational expression, reason.
- (countable) A formal lengthy exposition of some subject, either spoken or written.
- (uncountable) Expression in words, either speech or writing.
- (Internet, uncountable) Lengthy, often heated debate over controversial subject matter, particularly within fandom and activist spaces. Sometimes rendered as a proper noun with the definite article (i.e. "the Discourse").
verb
- To converse, discuss, or speak with another.
- (informal) To fly a helicopter or be flown in a helicopter.
- (intransitive) To do something suddenly with an unexpected motion; to catch or attempt to seize.
- (slang, transitive) To have sex with.
- (intransitive) To interrupt; with in or out.
- (transitive, figurative) To separate or divide.
- (transitive) To cut into pieces with short, vigorous cutting motions.
- (slang, transitive) To manipulate or separate out a line of cocaine.
- (poker) To divide the pot (or tournament prize) between two or more players.
- (transitive, Hong Kong) To stab.
- (computing, transitive, Perl) To remove the final character from (a text string).
- (transitive, baseball) To hit the ball downward so that it takes a high bounce.
- To chap or crack.
- To seal a licence or passport.
- (transitive) to give a downward cutting blow or movement, typically with the side of the hand.
- (transitive) To sever with an axe or similar implement.
- (nautical) To vary or shift suddenly.
- (transitive, colloquial, India, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei) To stamp or seal (a document); to mark, impress or otherwise place a design or symbol on paper or other material, usually, but not necessarily, to indicate authenticity.
- (intransitive) To make a quick, heavy stroke or a series of strokes, with or as with an ax.
- cut into pieces with repeated blows
- hit sharply
- cut with a hacking tool
- strike sharply, as in some sports
- move suddenly
- form or shape by chopping
noun
- A cut of meat, often containing a section of a rib.
- (chiefly in the plural) A jaw of an animal.
- A blow with an axe, cleaver, or similar implement.
- (poker) A hand where two or more players have an equal-valued hand, resulting in the chips being shared equally between them.
- (informal, with "the") Termination, especially from employment; the sack.
- (colloquial, India, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei) A stamp or seal; a mark, imprint or impression on a document (or other object or material) made by stamping or sealing a design with ink or wax, respectively, or by other methods.
- (uncountable) Aircraft turbulence.
- Ocean waves, generally caused by wind, distinguished from swell by being smaller and not lasting as long.
- A movable jaw or cheek, as of a vice.
- A licence or passport that has been sealed.
- (MLE, slang) A knife, especially one used as a weapon.
- A mark indicating nature, quality, or brand.
- (Australia, New Zealand) A woodchopping competition.
- A turn of fortune; change; a vicissitude.
- A complete shipment.
- (martial arts) A blow delivered with the hand rigid and outstretched.
- The land at each side of the mouth of a river, harbour, or channel.
- (Internet) An IRC channel operator.
- (UK, slang) Cocaine.
- (colloquial, by extension, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei) The device used for stamping or sealing, which also contains the design to be imprinted.
- a grounder that bounces high in the air
- a tennis return made with a downward motion that puts backspin on the ball
- the irregular motion of waves (usually caused by wind blowing in a direction opposite to the tide)
- a jaw
- a small cut of meat including part of a rib
verb
- (ambitransitive) To draw into conversation.
- (transitive) To arrange to employ or use (a worker, a space, etc.).
- (intransitive) To guarantee or promise (to do something).
- (transitive) To enter into conflict with (an enemy).
- (intransitive) To enter into battle.
- (transitive) To engross or hold the attention of; to keep busy or occupied.
- To attract, to please; (archaic) to fascinate or win over (someone).
- (transitive) To bind through legal or moral obligation (to do something, especially to marry) (usually in passive).
- To mesh or interlock (of machinery, especially a clutch).
- (engineering, transitive) To come into gear with.
- keep engaged
- hire for work or assistance
- carry on (wars, battles, or campaigns)
- carry out or participate in an activity; be involved in
- give to in marriage
- get caught
- consume all of one's attention or time
- engage or hire for work
- engage for service under a term of contract
- ask to represent; of legal counsel
noun
- an informal conversation
- birds having a chattering call
- songbirds having a chattering call
- (by extension, nonstandard, humorous) Familiar term of address for users on social media other than a chat room, as in "guys."
- (Internet, uncountable, with or without "the") A chat room, especially (in later use) one accompanying a videoconference or live stream.
- A small potato, such as is given to swine.
- (British, Australia, New Zealand, World War I military slang) A louse (small, parasitic insect).
- (countable) Any of various small Old World passerine birds in the muscicapid tribe Saxicolini or subfamily Saxicolinae that feed on insects.
- (metonymic, originally video games) The entirety of users, viewed collectively, in a chat room, especially the chat room accompanying a live stream.
- (countable, uncountable) Informal conversation.
- (countable, uncountable) An exchange of text or voice messages in real time through a computer network, resembling a face-to-face conversation.
- Alternative form of chaat.
- (countable) Any of several small Australian honeyeaters in the genus Epthianura.
- (mining, local use) Mining waste from lead and zinc mines.
verb
- To be engaged in informal conversation.
- talk socially without exchanging too much information
- (transitive) To talk of; to discuss.
- (informal, slang, often as chatting) To chat shit (to speak nonsense, to lie).
- To exchange text or voice messages in real time through a computer network such as a social media chat room or messaging application (as if having a face-to-face conversation instead of SMS or writing emails or letters).
- To talk more than a few words.
intj
verb
- To interrupt someone while they are speaking.
- (Uno) To play a card that matches the top card in the discard pile out of turn.
- To join in on an activity quickly.
- (US slang) To initiate into an organization, usually a gang, with violence.
- To enter something quickly, usually a mode of transport.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see jump, in.
noun
- Conversation that is incidental to the topic under discussion.
- (electronics) Undesirable signals from a neighbouring transmission circuit; undesired coupling between circuits.
- A traditional Chinese comedic performance in the form of a dialogue.
- Communication between parties who have extremely different perspectives.
- (biology) The situation where one or more components of a signal transduction pathway affect another pathway.
- the presence of an unwanted signal via an accidental coupling
verb
verb
- be in verbal contact; interchange information or ideas
- administer Communion; in church
- transfer to another
- transmit information
- receive Communion, in the Catholic church
- transmit thoughts or feelings
- join or connect
- (transitive, Christianity) To administer the Holy Communion to (someone).
- (transitive) To impart or transmit (information or knowledge) to someone; to make known, to tell.
- (intransitive, Christianity) To receive the bread and wine at a celebration of the Eucharist; to take part in Holy Communion.
- (intransitive) To be connected by means of an opening or channel [with with ‘another room, vessel etc.’].
- (transitive) To pass on (a disease) to another person, animal etc.
- (intransitive) To express or convey ideas, either through verbal or nonverbal means; to have intercourse, to exchange information.
- (transitive) To impart or transmit (an intangible quantity, substance); to give a share of.
verb
- speak with others about (something); talk (something) over in detail; have a discussion
- to consider or examine in speech or writing
- (transitive) To converse or debate concerning a particular topic.
- (transitive, law) To examine or search thoroughly; to exhaust a remedy against, as against a principal debtor before proceeding against the surety.
adj
adj
- Capable of engaging in conversation.
- (of a person) Easy in conversation, chatty.
- Of, relating to, or in the style of a conversation; informal and chatty.
- (computing) Involving a two-way exchange of messages, such as between a client and a server.
- characteristic of informal spoken language or conversation