prate
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prating, present participle; prated, past tense; prated, past participle; prates, 3rd person singular present;
/prāt/,
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prating, present participle; prated, past tense; prated, past participle; prates, 3rd person singular present;
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Talk foolishly or tediously about something
Web Definitions:
- chatter: speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly
- idle or foolish and irrelevant talk
- Fluency (also called volubility and loquaciousness) is the property of a person or of a system that delivers information quickly and with expertise.
- Prates is a Portuguese surname with branches in Portugal and Brazil. According with books from The Tombo´s Tower Library (Portugal) is 'a Family of very noble and old origin and descend from 'van Praet'. ...
- (Prating) Small talk is conversation for its own sake, or "…comments on what is perfectly obvious." It is an informal type of discourse that does not cover any functional topics of conversation or any transactions that need to be addressed. ...
- Talk to little purpose; trifling talk; unmeaning loquacity; To talk much and to little purpose; to chatter; to be loquacious; to speak foolishly; to babble
- (P-rating) Performance Rating. Since many people erronously believed faster CPU's are always better (partly because Intel until mid 2004 said as much), several companies started using a P-rating. The P-rating is supposed to correspond to the Intel chip of that speed. ...
- (prating) talking much and foolishly.