swapとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /swɒp/
• 韻: -ɒp

語源 1

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 古期英語 *swappian, a secondary form of 古期英語 swāpan (“to swoop”). Cognate with German schwappen (“to slosh, slop”). Compare also Middle English swippen (“to strike, hit”), from 古期英語 swipian (“to scourge, strike, beat, lash”), Old Norse svipa (“to swoop, flash, whip, look after, look around”). More at swipe.

動詞

swap (三人称単数 現在形 swaps, 現在分詞 swapping, 過去形および過去分詞形 swapped)

1. (transitive) To exchange or give (something) in an exchange (for something else).

   Synonyms: exchange, switch, trade

   • 1998, Michael Wolf; Bruce Friedman, Daniel Sutherland, Religion in the workplace, page 98:

     In an effort to provide more permanent accommodations, employers may offer employees the opportunity either to swap jobs with a colleague or to transfer to a new position.

   • 2007, Lloyd Zimpel, A Season of Fire and Ice:

     Chief watched these goings-on without pleasure, and waved them off in disgust when the smarmiest of the two suggested he might wish to swap that elk's tooth for this jug of fine rye whiskey.

   • 2011, Andrew Scott Cooper, The Oil Kings: How the U.S., Iran, and Saudi Arabia Changed the Balance of Power in the Middle East, page 253:

     The Shah wanted to swap oil for more arms.

2. (transitive, obsolete) To hit, to strike.
   • 1954, Edward Eager, Half Magic:

     And he whipped his sword out of its scabbard, and swapped off the pudding from the black knight's nose. Unfortunately (for him) he swapped off a good bit of the nose, too.

   • 1954, C. S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy

     "Maybe Apes will grow honest, Sister," said Edmund. "But, by the Lion, if he breaks it again, it may be in such time and place that any of us could swap off his head in clean battle."

3. (transitive, obsolete) To beat the air, or ply the wings, with a sweeping motion or noise; to flap.
4. (intransitive, obsolete) To descend or fall; to rush hastily or violently.

同意語

• (exchange or give (something) in exchange for): interchange, switch; See also Thesaurus:switch
• (hit, strike): bang, knock, tap; See also Thesaurus:hit
• (beat the air): flap
• (rush hastily): fly, speed, zoom; See also Thesaurus:rush

下位語

• (exchange or give (something) in exchange for): hot-swap, swap in, swap out

派生語

• swap spit

語源 2

From the verb swap. First attested in 1620.

名詞

swap (複数形 swaps)

1. An exchange of two comparable things.
   • 1819, Sir Walter Scott, Tales of My Landlord, The Bride of Lammermoor:

     I e’en changed it, as occasion served, with the skippers o’ Dutch luggers and French vessels, for gin and brandy […] a gude swap too, between what cheereth the soul of man and that which dingeth it clean out of his body

2. (finance) A financial derivative in which two parties agree to exchange one stream of cashflow against another stream.
3. (computing, informal, uncountable) Space available in a swap file for use as auxiliary memory.

   How much swap do you need?

4. (Cambridge University slang) 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.

同意語

• (an exchange of things): barter, quid pro quo, trade

下位語

• (financial derivative): credit default swap; total return swap

派生語

• prisoner swap
• swap body, swapbody
• swap file
• swaplet
• swap partition
• swappiness
• swapsies
• swap space

関連する語

• swap line
• swap meet

語源 3

From Middle English swap, swappe (“a blow, strike, lash from a whip”), from the verb (see Etymology 1 above).

名詞

swap (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 swaps)

1. (obsolete, UK, dialect) A blow; a stroke.

参照

• swap on Wikipedia.

アナグラム

• APWs, AWPs, WAPs, WASP, WSPA, paws, spaw, waps, wasp