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発音

• enPR: swŏp, 韻: -ɒp
• (Indic, spelling pronunciation) IPA: /sʋap/
  • 韻: -æp

語源 1

From 中期英語 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 中期英語 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 (third-person singular simple present swaps, present participle swapping, simple past and past participle swapped)

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

   Synonyms: exchange, switch, trade

   • 1998, Michael Wolf with Bruce Friedman and 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

語源 2

From the verb swap. First attested in 1620.

名詞

swap (plural 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

   • 2026 January 5, Callum Sutherland, “Who Is Cilia Flores? What to Know About Maduro’s Wife Amid Fall of Venezuela's First Couple”, in TIME‎:

     Flores' nephews were each sentenced to 18 years' imprisonment in 2017 for conspiring to import cocaine, but they were released in 2022 by the Biden Administration as part of a prisoner swap with Venezuela.

2. (finance) A financial derivative in which two parties agree to exchange one stream of non-normal 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

語源 3

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

名詞

swap (countable and uncountable, plural swaps)

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

参照

• swap on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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