webchat
A conversation that takes place, usually in text, over the World Wide Web.
Noun
- 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...
- Avon and Somerset Constabulary Interactive webchat (9 February 2007) - 2007, Malcolm Coulthard, Alison Johnson, An Introduction to Forensic Linguistics: Language in Evidence, page 216:
Origin
From web + chat.
Forms
Verb
- 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,...