swap
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Swap \Swap\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Swapped}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Swapping}.] [OE. swappen to strike; cf. E. to strike a
bargain; perh. akin to E. sweep. Cf. {Swap} a blow, {Swap},
v. i.] [Written also {swop}.]
1. To strike; -- with off. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] "Swap off his
head!" --Chaucer.
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2. To exchange (usually two things of the same kind); to
swop. [Colloq.] --Miss Edgeworth.
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from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Swap \Swap\, v. i. [Cf. {Swap}, v. t.]
1. To fall or descend; to rush hastily or violently. --C.
Richardson (Dict.).
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All suddenly she swapt adown to ground. --Chaucer.
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2. To beat the air, or ply the wings, with a sweeping motion
or noise; to flap.
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from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Swap \Swap\, n. [Cf. G. schwapp, n., a slap, swap, schwapp,
schwapps, interj., slap! smack! and E. swap, v.t.]
1. A blow; a stroke. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
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2. An exchange; a barter. [Colloq.] --Sir W. Scott.
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from
Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003)
swap
vt.
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}.
from
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
swap
swapped in
swapped out
swapping
<operating system> To move a program from fast-access memory
to a slow-access memory ("swap out"), or vice versa ("swap
in"). The term often refers specifically to the use of a
{hard disk} (or a {swap file}) as {virtual memory} or "swap
space".
When a program is to be executed, possibly as determined by a
{scheduler}, it is swapped into {core} for processing; when it
can no longer continue executing for some reason, or the
scheduler decides its {time slice} has expired, it is swapped
out again.
This contrasts with "paging" systems in which only parts of a
program's memory is transfered.
[{Jargon File}]
(1996-11-22)
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
82 Moby Thesaurus words for "swap":
alternate, backscratching, bandy, bang, bargain, barter, bash,
be quits with, belt, biff, blind bargain, bump, burst, bust,
buy and sell, change, clap, clash, commute, compensate, cooperate,
counterchange, crack, crash, crump, deal, dicker, do business,
even trade, exchange, flap, flop, get back at, get even with,
give and take, give in exchange, hard bargain, horse trade,
horse-trade, interchange, knock, logroll, logrolling, pay back,
permute, pork barrel, pound, rap, reciprocate, report, requite,
respond, retaliate, return, return the compliment, slam, slap,
slat, smack, sock, splat, substitute, swap horses, swapping,
switch, take in exchange, tap, thwack, trade, trade in, trade off,
trade sight unseen, trade-in, trading, traffic, transpose, truck,
whack, wham, whap, whomp, whop
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