chat vs converse

chat

verb
  • To talk of; to discuss. 

  • To talk more than a few words. 

  • 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. 

noun
  • 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. 

  • A chat room. 

  • 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. 

converse

verb
  • To talk; to engage in conversation. 

  • To keep company; to hold intimate intercourse; to commune. 

noun
  • Free verbal interchange of thoughts or views; conversation; chat. 

  • The opposite or reverse. 

  • One of a pair of terms that name or describe a relationship from opposite perspectives; converse antonym; relational antonym. 

  • Of a proposition or theorem of the form: given that "If A is true, then B is true", then "If B is true, then A is true.". 

adj
  • opposite; reversed in order or relation; reciprocal 

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