New World flycatcher flycatcher tyrant flycatcher tyrant bird | large American birds that characteristically catch insects on the wing |
Old World chat chat | songbirds having a chattering call |
New World chat chat | birds having a chattering call |
yellow-breasted chat Icteria virens | American warbler noted for imitating songs of other birds |
eastern red-backed salamander Plethodon cinereus | common salamander of eastern North America |
western red-backed salamander Plethodon vehiculum | salamander of the Pacific coast of North America |
red-backed sandpiper dunlin Erolia alpina | small common sandpiper that breeds in northern or Arctic regions and winters in southern United States or Mediterranean regions |
black-backed gull great black-backed gull cob Larus marinus | white gull having a black back and wings |
red-backed mouse redback vole | any of several voles of mountainous regions of Eurasia and America |
grey lemming gray lemming red-backed lemming | Old World lemming |
chat room chatroom | a site on the internet where a number of users can communicate in real time (typically one dedicated to a particular topic) |
talk show chat show | a program during which well-known people discuss a topic or answer questions telephoned in by the audience, in England they call a talk show a chat show |
chat confab confabulation schmooze schmoose | an informal conversation |
d chitchat chithat chit chat small talk gab gabfest gossip tittle-tattle chin wag chin-wag chin wagging chin-wagging causerie b | light informal conversation for social occasions |
tyrant autocrat despot | a cruel and oppressive dictator |
tyrant | any person who exercises power in a cruel way, his father was a tyrant |
tyrant | in ancient Greece, a ruler who had seized power without legal right to it |
mortgage-backed security | a security created when a group of mortgages are gathered together and bonds are sold to other institutions or the public, investors receive a portion of the interest payments on the mortgages as well as the principal payments, usually guaranteed by the government |
chat up | talk to someone with the aim of persuading him |
chat up flirt dally butterfly coquet coquette romance philander mash | talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions, The guys always try to chat up the new secretaries, My husband never flirts with other women |
e chew the fat shoot the breeze chat confabulate confab chitchat chit-chat chatter chaffer natter gossip jaw claver visit eb | talk socially without exchanging too much information, the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze |
backed | having a back or backing, usually of a specified type |
high-backed | having a high back, a high-backed sofa |
low-backed | having a low back |
razorback razor-backed | having a sharp narrow back, a razor-backed horse, razorback hogs |
spiny-backed | having the back covered with spines |
stiff-backed | having a stiff back, the guards stood stiff-backed and unsmiling |
straight-backed | having a straight back, a straight-backed wooden chair, a slim straight-backed dancer |
slate-grey slate-gray slaty-grey slaty-gray slaty slatey stone-grey stone-gray | of the color of slate or granite, the slaty sky of dawn |
red-coated lobster-backed | used of British soldiers during the American Revolutionary War because of their red coats |
broken-backed hogged | (of a ship) so weakened as to sag at each end |
broken-backed | having the spine damaged, a broken-backed book, a broken-backed old horse |
broken-backed | (of a horse) having bones of the back united by a bony growth |
hunched round-backed round-shouldered stooped stooping crooked | having the back and shoulders rounded, not erect, a little oldish misshapen stooping woman |
backed | used of film that is coated on the side opposite the emulsion with a substance to absorb light |
erectly straight-backed | in a straight-backed manner, the old man still walks erectly |