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webchat en · NOUN

From web + chat.

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:
- 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:

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
web chat		alternative	lexicographic
webchats	Number=Plur		lexicographic

From web + chat.

(intransitive) 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:

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
webchatted	Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part		lexicographic
webchatted	Tense=Past		lexicographic
web chat		alternative	lexicographic
webchats	Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres		lexicographic
webchatting	Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part		lexicographic