Meaning of "swop" in the English dictionary

PRONUNCIATION OF SWOP

swop  [swɒp]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SWOP

Swop is a verb and can also act as a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb swop in English.

WHAT DOES SWOP MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Swop

SWOP is a fusion of swing and hip hop dances, created by person unknown but possible renamed from "Hip-Hop Lindy" to "Swop" by Hinton Battle in 2006. It contains steps from hip hop, break dancing, Lindy Hop and swing air steps. The exact year of origin of the dance style is unknown, however, record indicate that the style was being taught, danced and discussed as early as 2001. The first mainstream appearance of this new style was in the movie Idlewild in 2006. A performance in the popular TV show "Dancing with the Stars" followed.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO SWOP

PRESENT

Present

I swop

you swop

he/she/it swops

we swop

you swop

they swop

Present continuous

I am swoping

you are swoping

he/she/it is swoping

we are swoping

you are swoping

they are swoping

Present perfect

I have swoped

you have swoped

he/she/it has swoped

we have swoped

you have swoped

they have swoped

Present perfect continuous

I have been swoping

you have been swoping

he/she/it has been swoping

we have been swoping

you have been swoping

they have been swoping

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I swoped

you swoped

he/she/it swoped

we swoped

you swoped

they swoped

Past continuous

I was swoping

you were swoping

he/she/it was swoping

we were swoping

you were swoping

they were swoping

Past perfect

I had swoped

you had swoped

he/she/it had swoped

we had swoped

you had swoped

they had swoped

Past perfect continuous

I had been swoping

you had been swoping

he/she/it had been swoping

we had been swoping

you had been swoping

they had been swoping

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will swop

you will swop

he/she/it will swop

we will swop

you will swop

they will swop

Future continuous

I will be swoping

you will be swoping

he/she/it will be swoping

we will be swoping

you will be swoping

they will be swoping

Future perfect

I will have swoped

you will have swoped

he/she/it will have swoped

we will have swoped

you will have swoped

they will have swoped

Future perfect continuous

I will have been swoping

you will have been swoping

he/she/it will have been swoping

we will have been swoping

you will have been swoping

they will have been swoping

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would swop

you would swop

he/she/it would swop

we would swop

you would swop

they would swop

Conditional continuous

I would be swoping

you would be swoping

he/she/it would be swoping

we would be swoping

you would be swoping

they would be swoping

Conditional perfect

I would have swop

you would have swop

he/she/it would have swop

we would have swop

you would have swop

they would have swop

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been swoping

you would have been swoping

he/she/it would have been swoping

we would have been swoping

you would have been swoping

they would have been swoping

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you swop
we let´s swop
you swop

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to swop

Past participle

swoped

Present Participle

swoping

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

SYNONYMS OF «SWOP»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «swop» and belong to the same grammatical category.

synonyms of swop

bandy · barter · exchange · interchange · reciprocate · switch · trade · trade-off · traffic

TRANSLATION OF SWOP

Find out the translation of swop to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of swop from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «swop» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: SWOP
• Translator English - Spanish: swop
• English: swop
• Translator English - Hindi: प्रहार
• Translator English - Arabic: SWOP
• Translator English - Russian: своп
• Translator English - Portuguese: SWOP
• Translator English - Bengali: বিনিময় করা
• Translator English - French: troc
• Translator English - Malay: Swop
• Translator English - German: tauschen
• Translator English - Japanese: SWOP
• Translator English - Korean: SWOP
• Translator English - Javanese: Swop
• Translator English - Vietnamese: giao hoán
• Translator English - Tamil: பண்ட மாற்று மூலம் மாற்று
• Translator English - Marathi: स्वॅप
• Translator English - Turkish: takas
• Translator English - Italian: barattare
• Translator English - Polish: SWOP
• Translator English - Ukrainian: своп
• Translator English - Romanian: SWOP
• Translator English - Greek: SWOP
• Translator English - Afrikaans: swop
• Translator English - Swedish: SWOP
• Translator English - Norwegian: SWOP

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SWOP»

Discover the use of swop in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to swop and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Swop!

She swops a song for a violin, her hair for a kitten, and even her grandmother for a donkey But will any of these things help them escape Aunty Bess for good? A charming and funny story classic Hilary McKayREADING AGE 7

Hilary McKay, 2009

Digital Color Management: Principles and Strategies for the ...

The. Latest. from. the. USA: GRACoL,. SWOP. and. G7. At the time of this third edition going to press, the American market in regard to standards for separation, proof and print is gathering a lot of momentum. In some points there are very ...

Jan-Peter Homann, 2008

Twenty-First Annual Report and Resolutions of the Council of ...

conventional lorries. The tare weight of swop—bodies is often lower than that of the corresponding ISO containers, so they can be transported on lighter and cheaper vehicles. 2. Description of the swop—body system The swop—body system ...

European Conference of Ministers of Transport, 1975

Nineteenth Annual Report and Resolutions of the Council of ...

Swop body transhipment Swop bodies can be of different types: sheeted platform , box body or tank. A special technique designed to improve the sw0p body system has been developed in the Federal Republic of Germany in recent years:  ...

European Conference of Ministers of Transport, 1973

Handbook of Print Media: Technologies and Production Methods

14.6.1) for offset printing [13.2-26], newspaper printing [13.2-27], business forms printing [13.2-28], and screen printing [13.2-29], • the SWOP directives (SWOP Specifications for Web Offset Publications) from the US for web offset publication  ...

Helmut Kipphan, 2001

Ethical Research with Sex Workers: Anthropological Approaches

She manages the SWOP-NOLA website, authors the weekly newsletter, communicates with prospective members, and the domain and hosting accounts are registered in her name. Though that information is protected from the public, law ...

Susan Dewey, Tiantian Zheng, 2013

Swop

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Jacob Aristotle, 2012

eWork and eBusiness in Architecture, Engineering and ...

SWOP's. PMO. H.M. Böhms & P. Bonsma Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO), Delft, The Netherlands M. Bourdeau Centre Scientifique et Technique du Bâtiment (CSTB), Sophia-Antipolis, France F. Josefiak ...

Alain Zarli, Raimar Scherer, 2008

Color Management for Photographers: Hands on Techniques for ...

However, if the press isn't producing SWOP behavior then the contract proof has to deviate as well. Other organizations that are attempting to set printing standards are GRACoL (General Requirements for Application in Commercial Offset ...

Andrew Rodney, 2005

Illustrating Super-Basic on the Sinclair QL

If the names pointed to are in the riqht order, leave them alone and advance the pointer one row. if they are ifi the wrong order swop them ; then advance the pointer to the next row. Obviously this must stop before the end of the list so as to  ...

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10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SWOP»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term swop is used in the context of the following news items.

New Hilux and Fortuner 'swop faces'

New Hilux and Fortuner 'swop faces'. Comment on this story. Hituner! This is what the new Hilux would look like with the Fortuner's face. Picture: ... «Independent Online, Jul 15»

Burial for funeral parlour baby swop

Durban - A Durban family and a funeral service who were in dispute over the body of an infant have reached an agreement that will see the baby girl buried on ... «Independent Online, Jun 15»

Mthembu could be used as Chiefs leverage for Cardoso swop

The 27-year-old featured very sparingly for the Glamour Boys in their title-winning campaign due to the presence of Kingston Nkhatha intially, and later Bernard ... «Goal.com, May 15»

Earthquake preparedness topic of next SWOP meeting

SWOP has met about this topic before but with recent events in Nepal, where more than 7,000 people perished in the quakes, and the current volcanic activity off ... «Coos Bay World, May 15»

Pupils swop lives for two days

Cape Town - Two Cape Town girls who participated in a peer exchange programme had not only swopped schools but families, cultures and even homes. «Independent Online, May 15»

Namibia: The +Plus Fashion Swop

This alienation, however, will soon be a thing of the past. This Saturday, 11 April, The +Plus will be hosting Windhoek's first ever curated plus size fashion swop. «AllAfrica.com, Apr 15»

Annual SWOP dinner and silent auction to be held Thursday

MOUNTAIN IRON — Proof of the success of the SWOP program can be found each summer at the annual awards and appreciation banquet. And the Rev. «Mesabi Daily News, Mar 15»

Australia floats prisoner swop to save Indonesia pair facing execution

SYDNEY (AFP) - Australia on Thursday suggested a prisoner swop with Indonesia in an eleventh hour bid to save two drug smugglers facing execution, ... «The Straits Times, Mar 15»

Agence France-Presse: Ukraine army, pro-Russian rebels swop …

Agence France-Presse: Ukraine army, pro-Russian rebels swop prisoners under tattered truce. Print version. Feb. 22, 2015, 9:52 a.m. | Ukraine abroad — by ... «Kyiv Post, Feb 15»

Meet the Sex Workers Who Lawmakers Don't Believe Exist

Mary and other sex workers involved in the Sex Workers Outreach Project, Seattle (SWOP Seattle) say that harsher punishments and crackdowns on clients will ... «TheStranger.com, Feb 15»