What's the difference between chad and chat?

Chad


Definition:

  • (n.) See Shad.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) That is happening not only in Brazil, but also in poorer cotton-producing countries such as Burkina Faso, Mali, Benin and Chad.
  • (2) Out of 4176 sera from asymptomatic adults originating from Chad, equatorial Guinea and Gabon tested for HIV-1 antibodies, 146 (3.5%) were positive by an enzyme immunoassay (EIA).
  • (3) Abaifouta, who is now president of the Hissène Habré victims association in Chad, spends his days campaigning on behalf of others like him; tireless in his efforts to bring justice, he has worked closely with Human Rights Watch and other groups.
  • (4) On Wednesday he will travel to Chad and Niger, whose troops help fight Boko Haram, said his spokesman, Garba Shehu.
  • (5) The aim is to secure the capital Bangui and the principal routes towards neighbouring Cameroon and Chad.
  • (6) In a summit in Paris last week, the west African nations of Cameroon, Chad and Niger agreed to each contribute a battalion to form a border patrol troop based around the arid Sahelian belt, large swaths of which have fallen under the control of Islamist terrorists in recent years.
  • (7) It also was recovered from El Bur and one with similar microscopic characters has been seen in Chad and also in "territoire français des Afars et des Issas".
  • (8) Spurs made light of their lack of recognised strikers, with Chadli and Carroll doing the damage from wide midfield and helping them to a comfortable victory.
  • (9) Chad Abram runs for three yards for a first down, and FSU keep driving, and Winston throws again to Benjamin, 24 yards to the Auburn 29, and that's very much another first down.
  • (10) Funding for programmes in Chad has been particularly difficult to secure.
  • (11) The reservoir cannula Oxymizer Pendant (Chad-Therapeutics Inc.) is a nasal prong system incorporating a pendant reservoir which stores oxygen during expiration and delivers it as a bolus at the onset of inspiration.
  • (12) Nacer Chadli was another who might have won it for the home team but this was not a day for ruthlessness.
  • (13) Many young people have never known a time when Habré was in Chad – he fled the country shortly after Idriss Déby's forces progressed westwards from Iriba, and eventually sought refuge in Senegal.
  • (14) Chad Griffin, president of Human Rights Campaign, said, in a video posted on the organisation's website : "Years from now, we'll remember this election day as the most historic and the most important in the LGBT community."
  • (15) "We can say there is a crisis already, just by the number of cases of malnutrition which we're dealing with in hospitals from Chad to Burkina Faso to Mali," said Alvaro Pascual, Sahel desk officer for Action Against Hunger .
  • (16) Few Americans may have heard of Hissène Habré, but the US government was intimately involved in his rise to power in Chad in 1982.
  • (17) A regional military coalition of Nigeria, Niger, Chad and Cameroon has claimed a series of major victories against Boko Haram since launching sweeping offensives against the terrorist group in February.
  • (18) Seattle had already opened the scoring, Chad Barrett converting from close range after Lovel Palmer was unable to clear a Kenny Cooper cross.
  • (19) The recently appointed captain Younès Kaboul, Emmanuel Adebayor, Mousa Dembélé and Nacer Chadli have also stayed at home.
  • (20) "Niger and Chad are the two countries with the largest crop deficits and there are already reports of a 90% reduction in cereal trades entering at some border posts in Nigeria," said Steve Cockburn of Oxfam West Africa .

Chat


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To talk in a light and familiar manner; to converse without form or ceremony; to gossip.
  • (v. t.) To talk of.
  • (n.) Light, familiar talk; conversation; gossip.
  • (n.) A bird of the genus Icteria, allied to the warblers, in America. The best known species are the yellow-breasted chat (I. viridis), and the long-tailed chat (I. longicauda). In Europe the name is given to several birds of the family Saxicolidae, as the stonechat, and whinchat.
  • (n.) A twig, cone, or little branch. See Chit.
  • (n.) Small stones with ore.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The cDNA insert, which contained a 728-amino acid coding region for ChAT, was used for immunizing rabbits.
  • (2) The Ca2+ agonist Bay K 8644 (1 microM) potentiated the effects of elevated K+ on both ChAT and TOH.
  • (3) You could also chat to local estate agents to get an idea of what kind of extension, if any, would appeal to buyers in your area.
  • (4) The intermediolateral (IML) nucleus contained numerous rostrocaudally oriented ChAT-IR dendrites.
  • (5) ChAT activities of the iris, adrenal gland, and superior cervical ganglion were similar in all groups.
  • (6) Vladimir Putin brushed off complaints of election fixing during his annual televised live chat with the nation on Thursday , but behind the scenes his lieutenants are anxiously plotting how to quell rising discontent.
  • (7) I tweet, check Facebook, chat with friends, keep in touch with colleagues, check in using Foursquare, use it to check work emails from home and organise notes using Evernote.
  • (8) In an interview on Jonathan Ross's chat show on ITV1 in September 2011, Adele had said: "I'm going back in the studio in November, fingers crossed.
  • (9) Since the striatal response began to be detectable at a similar concentration as that required for the full maintenance or restoration of ChAT and NGF receptor positivity it could be seen as an unwanted side-effect.
  • (10) In the ganglion cell layer, 40% of the cells were immunoreactive for choline acetyltransferase (ChAT); these cells were very homogeneous in size, had an average diameter of 12.6 microns, and appeared to represent a single class of cholinergic amacrine.
  • (11) There was also local reduction in choline acetyltransferase (ChAT) activity and significant losses of 55-kDa protein in the soluble fraction and of 50-kDa protein in myelin and synaptosomal fractions in the hippocampi of colchicine-lesioned rats.
  • (12) Cholinergic expression, as assessed by activity of choline acetyltransferase (ChAT), responded differentially to neuropeptide treatment.
  • (13) I drive past buildings that I know, or assume, to house bedsits, their stucco peeling like eczema, their window frames rattling like old bones, and I cannot help myself from picturing the scene within: a dubious pot on an equally dubious single ring, the female in charge of it half-heartedly stirring its contents at the same time as she files her nails, reads an old Vogue, or chats to some distant parent on the telephone.
  • (14) Frankly, an unconfrontational, off-the-high-horse chat is in order but it's not coming soon.
  • (15) Intraocular injections of colchicine did not result in the appearance of a population of ChAT-immunoreactive neurons in the ganglion cell layer.
  • (16) In addition, ChAT activity was enhanced by anti-Met, and TH activity by both anti-Met and naloxone.
  • (17) In both species, ChAT-IR somata in the GCL outnumbered those in the INL at all retinal locations.
  • (18) The neuropil of this nucleus was free from any distinctly ChAT-positive structures.
  • (19) On the train journey to court I will usually chat to the family to try and help them remain calm before the day ahead.
  • (20) Since arriving in Moscow, Snowden has been keeping late and solitary hours – effectively living on US time, tapping away on one of his three computers (three to be safe; he uses encrypted chat, too).