swap : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: swap	by the DICT Development Group
7 results for swap
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
swap n an equal exchange; "we had no money so we had to live by barter" Synonym(s): barter, swap, swop, trade v exchange or give (something) in exchange for [syn: trade, swap, swop, switch] move (a piece of a program) into memory, in computer science
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.] [bd]Swap off his head![b8] --Chaucer. 2. To exchange (usually two things of the same kind); to swop. [Colloq.] --Miss Edgeworth.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Swap \Swap\, v. i. [Cf. {Swap}, v. t.] 1. To fall or descend; to rush hastily or violently. --C. Richardson (Dict.). All suddenly she swapt adown to ground. --Chaucer. 2. To beat the air, or ply the wings, with a sweeping motion or noise; to flap.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.] 2. An exchange; a barter. [Colloq.] --Sir W. Scott.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Swap \Swap\, adv. [See {Swap}, n.] Hastily. [Prov. Eng.]
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
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}.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
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. [{Jargon File}] (1996-11-22)