Alternatively vs Swap - What's the difference?
alternatively | swap |
in an alternative way
* 1998 , Marie D. Hoff (editor), Sustainable Community Development , page 99:
* 2001 , Hans-Peter Martin, Is Globalization a Trap?'', published in ''Keys to the 21st Century (edited by Jérôme Bindé) on page 350:
* 2003 , Torunn Kjølner and Janek Szatkowski, Dramaturgy in Building Multimedia Performances'', published in ''Production methods: behind the scenes of virtual inhabited 3D worlds: Volume 1 (edited by Kim Halskov Madsen), on page 127:
* 2005 , Graham Meltzer, Sustainable Community: Learning from the Cohousing Model , page 3:
(conjunctive) (Used to link a pair of possibilities)
An exchange of two comparable things.
(finance) A financial derivative in which two parties agree to exchange one stream of cashflow against another stream.
(obsolete, UK, dialect) A blow; a stroke.
(computing, informal, uncountable) Space available in a swap file for use as auxiliary memory.
To exchange or give (something) in an exchange (for something else).
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(label) To strike, hit.
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*:And soo sir launcelot rode on the one syde and she on the other / he had not ryden but a whyle / but the knyghte badde sir Launcelot torne hym and loke behynde hym // and there wyth was the knyghte and the lady on one syde / & sodenly he swapped of his ladyes hede
(label) To fall or descend; to rush hastily or violently.
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*(Geoffrey Chaucer) (c.1343-1400)
*:All suddenly she swapt adown to ground.
(label) To beat the air, or ply the wings, with a sweeping motion or noise; to flap.
As an adverb alternatively
is in an alternative way.As a noun swap is
an exchange of two comparable things.As a verb swap is
to exchange or give (something) in an exchange (for something else).alternatively
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Adverb
(-)- Observers should keep in mind that these efforts at living alternatively are not easily undertaken; indeed, if they were, more people would be doing what they do.
- Thus, we are creating a new class struggle between those who live within the social system and those who are marginalized or wish to live alternatively .
- Devising obviously asks for what we understand as general creativity, like the ability to take an initiative, to invent, to think alternatively , to associate interestingly, to create metaphors and images.
- Most people living alternatively have strong pro-environmental values and, unlike many 'greens' in mainstream society, are generally able to apply their values in day-to-day life.
swap
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(wikipedia swap)Alternative forms
* swopNoun
(en noun)- (Sir Walter Scott)
- How much swap do you need?