noun
Meaning 1
An exchange of two comparable things.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
swap
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈswɒp/
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General-American: /ˈswɑp/
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rhymes with -ɒp
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CMU ARPABET: S W AA1 P Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A financial derivative in which two parties agree to exchange one stream of non-normal cashflow against another stream.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: business, finance
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noun
Meaning 3
Space available in a swap file for use as auxiliary memory.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal, uncountable
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
Examples
- How much swap do you need?
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noun
Meaning 4
A social meal at a restaurant between two university societies, usually involving drinking and banter; commonly associated with fining and pennying; equivalent to a crewdate at Oxford University.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: Cambridge University slang
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noun
Meaning 5
A blow; a stroke.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, countable, dialectal, obsolete, uncountable
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verb
Meaning 6
To exchange or give (something) in an non-normal exchange (for something else).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: exchange, switch, trade
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 7
To hit, to strike.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, transitive
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verb
Meaning 8
To beat the air, or ply the wings, with a sweeping motion or noise; to flap.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, transitive
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verb
Meaning 9
To descend or fall; to rush hastily or violently.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive, obsolete
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noun
Meaning 10
an equal exchange
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- we had no money so we had to live by barter
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: barter, swop, trade
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: exchange, interchange
Narrower terms: horse trade, horse trading
verb
Meaning 11
move (a piece of a program) into memory, in computer science
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: travel, go, move, locomote
Narrower terms: thrash
verb
Meaning 12
exchange or give (something) in exchange for
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: trade, swop, switch
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: exchange, change, interchange
History
Etymology
From the verb swap. First attested in 1620.
From Middle English swap, swappe (“a blow, strike, lash from a whip”), from the verb (see Etymology 1 above).
From Middle English swappen (“to swap”), originally meaning "to hurl" or "to strike", the word alludes to striking hands together when making an exchange; probably from Old English *swappian, a secondary form of Old English swāpan (“to swoop”). Cognate with German schwappen (“to slosh, slop”). Compare also Middle English swippen (“to strike, hit”), from Old English swipian (“to scourge, strike, beat, lash”), Old Norse svipa (“to swoop, flash, whip, look after, look around”). More at swipe.
Across languages
Translations
121 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Afrikaans: ruil — exchange
- Armenian: փոխանակում (pʻoxanakum) — exchange
- Bulgarian: смяна (smjana) — exchange
- Bulgarian: размяна (razmjana) — exchange
- Catalan: bescanvi — exchange
- Catalan: barata — exchange
- Catalan: troc — exchange
- Chinese Mandarin: 交換 /交换 (jiāohuàn) — exchange
- Chinese Mandarin: 對調 /对调 (duìdiào) — exchange
- Chinese Mandarin: 調換 /调换 (diàohuàn) — exchange
- Czech: výměna — exchange
- Dutch: ruil — exchange
- Finnish: vaihtokauppa — exchange
- Finnish: vaihto — exchange
- French: échange — exchange
- German: Tausch — exchange
- German: Tauschgeschäft — exchange
- Greek: ανταλλαγή (antallagí) — exchange
- Hungarian: csere — exchange
- Italian: scambio — exchange
- Italian: baratto — exchange
- Italian: permuta — exchange
- Japanese: 取り替え (torikae) — exchange
- Japanese: スワップ (suwappu) — exchange
- Japanese: 交換 (kōkan) — exchange
- Korean: 교환 (gyohwan) — exchange
- Latvian: maiņa — exchange
- Maltese: bdil — exchange
- Māori: kurutete — exchange
- Māori: whiti — exchange
- Occitan: escambi — exchange
- Polish: zamiana — exchange
- Polish: swap — exchange
- Portuguese: troca — exchange
- Russian: обме́н (obmén) — exchange
- Russian: ме́на (ména) — exchange
- Spanish: cambalache — exchange
- Spanish: trueque — exchange
- Spanish: canje — exchange
- Spanish: permutación — exchange
- Spanish: permuta — exchange
- Tagalog: palitan — exchange
- Tagalog: baligyaan — exchange
- Turkish: takas — exchange
- Vietnamese: sự giao hoán — exchange
- Bulgarian: суа́п (suáp) — finance: derivative
- Chinese Mandarin: 掉期 (diàoqī) — finance: derivative
- Czech: swap — finance: derivative
- Finnish: vaihtosopimus — finance: derivative
- Finnish: swap — finance: derivative
- German: Swap — finance: derivative
- Italian: permuta — finance: derivative
- Italian: scambio — finance: derivative
- Japanese: スワップ (suwappu) — finance: derivative
- Polish: swap — finance: derivative
- Portuguese: swap — finance: derivative
- Russian: своп (svop) — finance: derivative
- Spanish: permuta — finance: derivative
- Spanish: swap — finance: derivative
- Spanish: permuta financiera — finance: derivative
- Afrikaans: ruil — exchange or give (something) in exchange for
- Arabic: مُبَادَلَة (mubādala) — exchange or give (something) in exchange for
- Bulgarian: разменям (razmenjam) — exchange or give (something) in exchange for
- Catalan: bescanviar — exchange or give (something) in exchange for
- Catalan: baratar — exchange or give (something) in exchange for
- Chinese Mandarin: 交換 /交换 (jiāohuàn) — exchange or give (something) in exchange for
- Chinese Mandarin: 對調 /对调 (duìdiào) — exchange or give (something) in exchange for
- Chinese Mandarin: 調換 /调换 (diàohuàn) — exchange or give (something) in exchange for
- Cornish: keschanjya — exchange or give (something) in exchange for
- Czech: vyměnit — exchange or give (something) in exchange for
- Czech: prohodit — exchange or give (something) in exchange for
- Dutch: ruilen — exchange or give (something) in exchange for
- Dutch: wisselen — exchange or give (something) in exchange for
- Finnish: vaihtaa — exchange or give (something) in exchange for
- Finnish: tehdä vaihtokauppa — exchange or give (something) in exchange for
- French: permuter — exchange or give (something) in exchange for
- Georgian: გაცვლა (gacvla) — exchange or give (something) in exchange for
- German: tauschen — exchange or give (something) in exchange for
- German: austauschen — exchange or give (something) in exchange for
- German: vertauschen — exchange or give (something) in exchange for
- German: wechseln — exchange or give (something) in exchange for
- Greek: ανταλλάσσω (antallásso) — exchange or give (something) in exchange for
- Hungarian: cserél — exchange or give (something) in exchange for
- Hungarian: elcserél — exchange or give (something) in exchange for
- Hungarian: kicserél — exchange or give (something) in exchange for
- Hungarian: megcserél — exchange or give (something) in exchange for
- Italian: scambiare — exchange or give (something) in exchange for
- Italian: barattare — exchange or give (something) in exchange for
- Italian: permutare — exchange or give (something) in exchange for
- Italian: commutare — exchange or give (something) in exchange for
- Japanese: 取り替える (torikaeru) — exchange or give (something) in exchange for
- Japanese: 交換する (kōkan suru) — exchange or give (something) in exchange for
- Khmer: ប្តូរ (ptou) — exchange or give (something) in exchange for
- Korean: 교환하다 (gyohwanhada) — exchange or give (something) in exchange for
- Latvian: mainīt — exchange or give (something) in exchange for
- Maltese: partat — exchange or give (something) in exchange for
- Māori: whakawhiti — exchange or give (something) in exchange for
- Māori: whakawhitiwhiti — exchange or give (something) in exchange for
- Māori: kurutete — exchange or give (something) in exchange for
- Norman: trotchi — exchange or give (something) in exchange for
- Occitan: escambiar — exchange or give (something) in exchange for
- Polish: zamieniać — exchange or give (something) in exchange for
- Polish: zamienić — exchange or give (something) in exchange for
- Portuguese: trocar — exchange or give (something) in exchange for
- Portuguese: intercambiar — exchange or give (something) in exchange for
- Russian: меня́ться (menjátʹsja) — exchange or give (something) in exchange for
- Russian: поменя́ться (pomenjátʹsja) — exchange or give (something) in exchange for
- Russian: обме́ниваться (obménivatʹsja) — exchange or give (something) in exchange for
- Russian: обменя́ться (obmenjátʹsja) — exchange or give (something) in exchange for
- Russian: махну́ться (maxnútʹsja) — exchange or give (something) in exchange for
- Spanish: canjear — exchange or give (something) in exchange for
- Spanish: cambalachear — exchange or give (something) in exchange for
- Spanish: permutar — exchange or give (something) in exchange for
- Swedish: byta — exchange or give (something) in exchange for
- Tagalog: magpalitan — exchange or give (something) in exchange for
- Tagalog: magbaligyaan — exchange or give (something) in exchange for
- Tonga (Zambia): cincana — exchange or give (something) in exchange for
- Turkish: takas etmek — exchange or give (something) in exchange for
- Turkish: değiştirmek — exchange or give (something) in exchange for
- Vietnamese: giao hoán — exchange or give (something) in exchange for
- Welsh: ymgyfnewid — exchange or give (something) in exchange for