chat vs tête-à-tête

chat

noun
  • A chat room. 

  • A louse (small, parasitic insect). 

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

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

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

  • Mining waste from lead and zinc mines. 

  • Informal conversation. 

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

  • Any of several small Australian honeyeaters in the genus Epthianura. 

  • A conversation to stop an argument or settle a situation. 

verb
  • To talk more than a few words. 

  • To talk of; to discuss. 

  • To be engaged in informal conversation. 

  • To exchange text or voice messages in real time through a computer network, as if having a face-to-face conversation. 

tête-à-tête

noun
  • A face-to-face meeting, or private conversation between two people, usually in an intimate setting; a head-to-head. 

  • A bench or sofa that allows two people to talk face-to-face, especially one that is S-shaped. 

  • A variety of early flowering, fragrant daffodil. 

adv
  • In private, between two people; head-to-head. 

How often have the words chat and tête-à-tête occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )