webchat
webchat noun: a conversation that takes place, usually in text, over the World Wide Web.
Noun
webchat (plural webchats)
- A conversation that takes place, usually in text, over the World Wide Web.
- Some webchats that deliver a real-time feeling require […] plug-ins, which are mini-software programs that you need to download from the Web onto your computer so your Web browser can launch into chat[…]1998, Aliza Sherman, Cybergrrl!: a woman's guide to the World Wide Web
- Avon and Somerset Constabulary Interactive webchat (9 February 2007)2007, Malcolm Coulthard, Alison Johnson, An Introduction to Forensic Linguistics: Language in Evidence, page 216
Verb
webchat (third-person singular simple present webchats, present participle webchatting, simple past and past participle webchatted)
- To take part in such a conversation.
- This was the case with Antonio Rodolfo Junior, Braskem's PVC Products and Services Manager, who spent nearly an hour every evening webchatting with his wife and two children, aged 4 and 6, back in Sao Paulo.2005, Odebrecht Informa, numbers 116-121, page 39
Forms of webchat
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | webchats |
| alternative form | web chat |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | webchats |
| present participle | webchatting |
| past participle | webchatted |
| past | webchatted |
Origin of webchat
From web + chat.
Questions about webchat
- What does webchat mean?
- Webchat means a conversation that takes place, usually in text, over the World Wide Web.
- What part of speech is webchat?
- Webchat can be a noun or a verb.
- What is the plural of webchat?
- The plural of webchat is webchats.
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