webchat

plural webchats · alternative web chat

1. A conversation that takes place, usually in text, over 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

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   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

present singular third person webchats · participle present webchatting · participle past webchatted · past webchatted · alternative web chat

1. intransitiveTo 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