Swap \Swap\, adv. [See Swap, n.]
   Hastily. [Prov. Eng.]
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	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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	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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	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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	swap
     n : an equal exchange; "we had no money so we had to live by
         barter" [syn: barter, swop, trade]
     v 1: exchange or give (something) in exchange for [syn: trade,
          swop, switch]
     2: move (a piece of a program) into memory, in computer science
     [also: swops, swopping, swopped, swapping, swapped]

	

	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

	

	SWAP
     Shared Wireless Application Protocol (HomeRF Association, WAP, WLAN)

	

	SWAP
     Simple Workflow Access Protocol

	

	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.

	

	swap
     
         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.
     
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