barter, swap, swop, trade
(noun) an equal exchange; “we had no money so we had to live by barter”
swap
(verb) move (a piece of a program) into memory, in computer science
trade, swap, swop, switch
(verb) exchange or give (something) in exchange for
Source: WordNet® 3.1
swap (third-person singular simple present swaps, present participle swapping, simple past and past participle swapped)
(transitive) To exchange or give (something) in an exchange (for something else).
Synonyms: exchange, switch, trade
(transitive, obsolete) To hit, to strike.
(transitive, obsolete) To beat the air, or ply the wings, with a sweeping motion or noise; to flap.
(intransitive, obsolete) To descend or fall; to rush hastily or violently.
• (exchange or give (something) in exchange for): interchange, switch; See also switch
• (hit, strike): bang, knock, tap; See also hit
• (beat the air): flap
• (rush hastily): fly, speed, zoom; See also rush
• (exchange or give (something) in exchange for): hot-swap, swap in, swap out
swap (plural swaps)
An exchange of two comparable things.
(finance) A financial derivative in which two parties agree to exchange one stream of cashflow against another stream.
(computing, informal, uncountable) Space available in a swap file for use as auxiliary memory.
• (an exchange of things): barter, quid pro quo, trade
• (financial derivative): credit default swap; total return swap
swap (countable and uncountable, plural swaps)
(obsolete, UK, dialect) A blow; a stroke.
• APWs, AWPs, WASP, WSPA, paws, spaw, waps, wasp
Source: Wiktionary
Swap, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Swapped; p. pr. & vb. n. Swapping.] Etym: [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.
2. To exchange (usually two things of the same kind); to swop. [Colloq.] Miss Edgeworth.
Swap, v. i. Etym: [Cf. Swap, v. t.]
1. To fall or descend; to rush hastily or violently. C. Richardson (Dict.). All suddenly she swapt adown to ground. Chaucer.
2. To beat the air, or ply the wings, with a sweeping motion or noise; to flap.
Swap, n. Etym: [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.]
2. An exchange; a barter. [Colloq.] Sir W. Scott.
Swap, adv. Etym: [See Swap, n.]
Definition: Hastily. [Prov. Eng.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
23 December 2024
(noun) Australian tree having hard white timber and glossy green leaves with white flowers followed by one-seeded glossy blue fruit
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
