Swapping

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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 WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  swapping
       See {swap}

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  34 Moby Thesaurus words for "swapping":
     agency, backscratching, barter, bartering, brokerage,
     buying and selling, colossal, dealing, doing business, enormous,
     even trade, exchange, giant, gigantic, give-and-take,
     horse trading, immense, interchange, jobbing, jumbo, logrolling,
     mammoth, merchandising, pork barrel, retailing, swap, switch,
     trade, trading, trafficking, tremendous, wheeling and dealing,
     wholesaling, whopping
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  swapping
       
          {swap}