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Definition of 'SWAP'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (v.t.) swap
to trade or barter, as one thing for another.

2. (v.i.) swap
to make an exchange.

3. (n.) swap
an exchange:
He got the radio in a swap.

Etymology: (1300–50; ME swappen to strike, strike hands (in bargaining))

Definition of 'SWAP'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (verb) barter, swap, swop, trade
an equal exchange
"we had no money so we had to live by barter"

2. (verb) trade, swap, swop, switch
exchange or give (something) in exchange for

3. (verb) swap
move (a piece of a program) into memory, in computer science

Definition of 'SWAP'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (verb) swap
to give sb sth and receive sth in exchange
We swapped bikes after school.; Will you swap with me?

2. swap
swap places (with)
to exchange seats
We swapped places so he could see the stage.; I like his and he liked mine, so we did a swap.

Definition of 'SWAP'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) SWAP
a blow; a stroke

2. (noun) SWAP
an exchange; a barter

3. (noun) SWAP
hastily

4. (verb) SWAP
to strike; -- with off

5. (verb) SWAP
to exchange (usually two things of the same kind); to swop

6. (verb) SWAP
to fall or descend; to rush hastily or violently

7. (verb) SWAP
to beat the air, or ply the wings, with a sweeping motion or noise; to flap

Definitions of 'SWAP'

The New Hacker's Dictionary

1. SWAP
1. [techspeak] To move information from a fast-access memory to a slow-access memory (swap out), or vice versa (swap in). Often refers specifically to the use of disks as virtual memory. As pieces of data or program are needed, they are swapped into core for processing; when they are no longer needed they may be swapped out again.

2. The jargon use of these terms analogizes people's short-term memories with core. Cramming for an exam might be spoken of as swapping in. If you temporarily forget someone's name, but then remember it, your excuse is that it was swapped out. To keep something swapped in means to keep it fresh in your memory: “I reread the TECO manual every few months to keep it swapped in.” If someone interrupts you just as you got a good idea, you might say “Wait a moment while I swap this out”, implying that a piece of paper is your extra-somatic memory and that if you don't swap the idea out by writing it down it will get overwritten and lost as you talk. Compare page in, page out.

Translation of 'SWAP'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: to exchange one thing for another He swopped his ball with another boy for a pistol; They swopped books with each other.
Afrikaans: ruil	Arabic: يَتَبادَل	Bulgarian: разменям си
Brazilian: trocar	Czech: vyměnit si	German: tauschen
Danish: bytte	Greek: ανταλλάσσω	Spanish: intercambiar
Estonian: vahetama	Farsi: مبادله كردن	Finnish: vaihtaa
French: échanger	Hebrew: לְהַחֲלִיף	Hindi: बदलना, अदला-बदली करना
Croatian: mijenjati, trampiti	Hungarian: (el)cserél	Indonesian: menukarkan
Icelandic: skiptaá, hafa skipti á	Italian: scambiare	Japanese: 交換する
Korean: 교환하다	Lithuanian: apsikeisti, iškeisti	Latvian: samainīt; samainīties
Malay: tukar-menukar	Dutch: ruilen	Norwegian: bytte, utveksle, skiftes
Polish: zamieniać, wymieniać (się	Persian: مبادله كردن	Pashto: مبادله کول
Portuguese: trocar	Romanian: a schimba	Russian: махнуться
Slovak: vymeniť si	Slovenian: zamenjati	Serbian: trampiti
Swedish: byta	Thai: แลกเปลี่ยน	Turkish: değiş tokuş etmek
Taiwanese: 以物易物	Ukrainian: міняти, обмінювати	Urdu: مبادلہ کرنا
Vietnamese: traođổi, đổi chác	Chinese: 物物交换
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