(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.
(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).
Confabulate
Definition:
(v. i.) To talk familiarly together; to chat; to prattle.
Example Sentences:
(1) Seventy-six unselected patients affected by senile dementia were investigated in order to study the relationships between confabulation of denial and (a) stage attained by the demential process; (b) degree of memory loss, and (c) personality features and cultural models of the patients.
(2) Using his views as a starting point, the concept of confabulation is then defined in a Kraepelin-oriented manner, making it also applicable to the phantastic false memories found in some rarer forms of functional psychotic illness.
(3) Sixty-two subjects were divided into two groups (33 with and 29 without such a history) and compared on the following features: color-dominated percepts, primary-process content, confabulation, activity versus passivity, and two new scores related to dissociative symptoms.
(4) Implications for the role of frontal lobe dysfunction in the genesis of anosognosia and confabulation are discussed.
(5) There is a retrograde amnesia for up to several years, that disappears slowly, and apparently no confabulations.
(6) A gradual development of the confabulatory syndrome (from mnemonic confabulations to ecmnestic) was seen in senile dementia (5 cases) and in its combination with vascular atherosclerosis (61 cases).
(7) Beverly died in 2013. Letters: John Berger obituary Read more Last year saw the premiere in Berlin of the film The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger , directed by Tilda Swinton, Colin McCabe, Christopher Roth and Bartek Dziadosz, and the publication of Confabulations, a miscellany of essays and drawings.
(8) During the latest hearing, Nightingale claimed the pistol and ammunition must have belonged to Soldier N. His explanation about how he came by the gun and ammunition was put down to "confabulation" – an unconscious trick of the mind in which gaps are filled in with false memories.
(9) The author thinks that psychopathological symptoms, pathognomonic for damage to the mediobasal parts of the frontal lobes play a role in the pathogenesis of confabulations.
(10) A case of posttraumatic amnestic syndrome is described, with spontaneous confabulations as the main symptom.
(11) It is supposed that disturbances of recent memory are an indispensable, although insufficient condition for confabulation development.
(12) Early in the twentieth century it was used to refer to a subtype of dementia characterized by confabulations, marked memory impairment, hyperactivity, disorientation, elevated mood and preserved social graces.
(13) A neuropsychologic analysis of the disorder stresses the cognitive operations entailed in geographical localization and confabulation.
(14) Finally, his autobiographical memory was poor and subject to substantial confabulation.
(15) A number of plausible theories of confabulation have been proposed, but the various claims and counterclaims have not been systematically tested.
(16) Anton's syndrome or cortical blindness consists of blindness, denial of blindness and at times confabulation.
(17) The Council finds that recollections obtained during hypnosis can involve confabulations and pseudomemories and not only fail to be more accurate, but actually appear to be less reliable than nonhypnotic recall.
(18) Some forms of confabulation ('confabulation of denial') seem due to the need to deny demential dissolution by replacing information pointing to illness with expressions suggesting normal health and efficiency.
(19) A large increase in time spent awake and in stage I sleep is reported as well as confused sleep cycles, increased ocular density in case of confabulation and dream accounts recalling mental activity from the previous day.
(20) We propose that the typical confabulations are triggered by gaps in memory for the period surrounding the onset of his illness, while the aphasic (fantastic) confabulations are triggered by gaps in semantic representation.