(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).
Hobnob
Definition:
(adv.) Have or have not; -- a familiar invitation to reciprocal drinking.
(adv.) At random; hit or miss. (Obs.)
(v. i.) To drink familiarly (with another).
(v. i.) To associate familiarly; to be on intimate terms.
(n.) Familiar, social intercourse.
Example Sentences:
(1) The man was carrying a plastic bag but, instead of giving the officers abuse, he offered them Hobnobs.
(2) The deathly silent crowd highlighted the sound of me struggling to subtly catch my breath, while Mick crunched his way through three Hobnobs my technician gave him in between changing all the microphones.
(3) Rinehart has previously dismissed climate change: “I have never met a geologist or leading scientist who believes adding more carbon dioxide to the atmosphere will have any significant effect on climate change.” But rather than hobnobbing with scientists, she is better known for funding speaking tours for opponents of climate science, such as the former Ukip deputy leader (Lord) Christopher Monckton .
(4) "If you hobnob with these groups then it just makes them appear acceptable to ordinary people."
(5) I think that my menu wasn't as interesting as I thought it was because I was craving Hobnobs by the end.
(6) I've heard that almost all the people crowding around the big art openings barely look at the work on display and are just there to hobnob.
(7) It's a celebrity, always in the papers, hobnobbing at parties with what the logo for the London Olympics cost and the price of that duck island.
(8) As foreign secretary William Hague met with representatives from over 140 countries to work towards ending impunity for wartime sexual violence and increasing prosecutions, he was airily accused of " hobnobbing at rape summit" with Angelina Jolie.
(9) Osborne struggled to connect personally with the workers, who were kitted out in high visibility vests in the freezing distribution centre, as he made his pitch in front of row upon row of supermarket goods from chocolate Hobnobs to Carlsberg beer packed floor to ceiling.
(10) At exactly the same moment as Shakespeare was supposedly a servant of the Raj, in other words, he was also working for the opposition: hobnobbing with myriad local cultures, changing beyond all recognition.
(11) The morning after featured a television appearance on the CBS breakfast show, a photoshoot with the trophy in Central Park and a reception at British consul Danny Lopez's official residence in Manhattan, where he was welcomed by a Scottish piper playing Scotland the Brave and was offered Hula Hoops, Maltesers and Hobnobs.
(12) Far better that decisions about Europe are taken by wiser heads, like those hobnobbing at Bilderberg.
(13) But it's not just that ministers are not discouraged from hobnobbing with corporate executives: they are now obliged to do so.
(14) But, according to William Easterly , celebrities have been too quick to rub shoulders and hobnob with the powerful.
(15) There is a pause, and then a voice rises up from the back of the room: "HobNobs!"
(16) Doubles from £74, B&B Pousada Naturalia, Ilha Grande While the exclusive private islands that dot the sea around Ihla Grande are more associated with celebrity hobnobbing and magazine photo shoots, Abraão, the island’s main village, some 93 miles south-west of the city of Rio, boasts a cluster of more humble abodes.
(17) The French have accused the UK of hypocrisy in telling them not to sell warships to Russia, while leading Tories hobnob with Russian oligarchs.
(18) In fact, he had a slightly belligerent streak that came out when we first started hobnobbing with dealers and gallery owners.
(19) We know they're all pals, who head up governments, newspapers and big businesses, who hobnob together and horse-ride together.
(20) Reed’s Walk on the Wild Side is about the time he spent hobnobbing with New York hipsters in The Factory: Holly came from Miami, Florida Hitch-hiked her way across the USA Plucked her eyebrows on the way Shaved her legs and then he was a she She says, "Hey, babe Take a walk on the wild side" She said, "Hey, honey Take a walk on the wild side" That space is now a parking lot in the well-groomed Midtown district of Manhattan which is almost always vacant by 10pm, any night of the week.