swap

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

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

   “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.”

2. fiil To hit, to strike.

   “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.”

3. fiil To beat the air, or ply the wings, with a sweeping motion or noise; to flap.
4. fiil To descend or fall; to rush hastily or violently.
5. isim An exchange of two comparable things.

   “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”

6. isim A financial derivative in which two parties agree to exchange one stream of non-normal cashflow against another stream.
7. isim Space available in a swap file for use as auxiliary memory.

   “How much swap do you need?”

8. isim 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.
9. isim A blow; a stroke.