What's the difference between chatting and nattering?

Chatting


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chat

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).

Nattering


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Meanwhile the stars of a series that attracted more than 9 million viewers for its finale last year are gathering in a walled English garden for a cup of tea and a natter.
  • (2) 5.30pm GMT Tottenham's striker hunt ... Spurs continue to serenade Damiao but they have others irons in the fire too: word is they're nattering with Lyon about Lisandro Lopes.
  • (3) She still attends the Newquay “knit and natter” group, which makes bedsocks for the town’s hospital.
  • (4) A group of four ladies who come every year sit nattering away in the corner.
  • (5) Many who regularly post on the messageboard applaud the generous support they have received from other mothers whom they have never met in person: in this respect it resembles not so much a parenting manual as a virtual version of a mother's coffee-morning or a natter over the fence of old.
  • (6) Many of these are suits from the surrounding business district, diluted with beer lovers and those who relish that rarity: a simple, unpretentious city pub, where you can settle in and natter the night away.
  • (7) The air smells clean and salty, families natter about everything and nothing, lapdogs snap, an earnest student sketches another earnest student, young lovers gently snog and strangers strike up friendships.
  • (8) They sew, but they also knit (at Knit and Natter), and cycle (with Radiant Riders), and taste beer (Swig for Victory).
  • (9) "Standing there pulling pints and having a natter is easy!
  • (10) Clocks should be seen to be stopped for goal celebrations, substitutions, natters before set-pieces, rolling around and whenever the ball goes out of play.
  • (11) There’s also brown long-eared, natterers, pipistrelles,” he said.
  • (12) With a cultivated accent as thick as Mersey fog, she has giggled her way through six years of plain food and a good natter.
  • (13) Should it go ahead, Blakenall library – and its Knit and Natter group – would be no more.
  • (14) "Then one day, overhearing me ask the shopkeeper if my crochet magazine had arrived, a total stranger suggested I come to the Knit and Natter group meeting in Biddulph library on Wednesday afternoon … It seems an exaggerated claim, I know, but the ensuing visit to the library has made such a radical change to my life.
  • (15) Specimens of 5 species of cestodes were collected in 6 specimens of the freshwater stingray species Potamotrygon motoro (Natterer), collected in the vicinity of Corumba, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil.
  • (16) If you have any thoughts on the above maybe you should join me for the knit and natter session between 2pm and 4pm on Saturday at Eastside Projects.
  • (17) Why does the government only listen to the anti-smokers who obviously natter and natter about it?
  • (18) Over here, by contrast, a purported 90-minute match is padded out by players trundling over to take throw-ins or nattering about free-kicks and so on.
  • (19) I've witnessed receptions ignoring the phone to have a natter while at the surgery.
  • (20) We’re here once a week at our Knit and Natter, we’re here for our over-50s clubs and we have people come in for talks.

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