Swopped vs Swapped - What's the difference?
swopped | swapped |
(swop)
* 1977 , , Penguin Classics, p. 315:
(swap)
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 verbs the difference between swopped and swapped
is that swopped is past tense of swop while swapped is past tense of swap.swopped
English
Verb
(head)swop
English
Etymology 1
Verb
- 'We make a pair, by God and by St James! / But, brother, what do you say to swopping names?'
Etymology 2
Anagrams
* *swapped
English
Verb
(head)swap
English
(wikipedia swap)Alternative forms
* swopNoun
(en noun)- (Sir Walter Scott)
- How much swap do you need?