To Swap Out Something

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People sometimes mistake word the word Swap for Swamp as they look very similar at first glance. A swamp is a place you don't want to go swimming, unless you want to meet Swamp Thing up close and in person.

To swap out something is to replace something. It could be a part, like a hard drive, or some part for a car.

Usually I swap out hard drives if one is broken, or, I swapped out my my broken fan in my notebook cooler for a new one. When you get something fixed, the repair man can tell you he had to swap out a part because the old one was broken. Take for example, my 65'' inch rear projection television. The digital convergence module went on it and how to be replaced with a new one. We can say it had to be swapped out. The the guy told me not even Samsung can fix it. If you don't know what a digital convergence module does, it aligns 3 picture tubes digitally. Remember big those big rear projection TV's... They have 3 pictures tubes inside for Red, Green, and Blue.

A CNBC video about Caterpillar often stated as CAT talked about how its colour was swapped out for a new one back in the good old days. The color change was a mustard like color yellow. 

Let's look at the sentence from the video

The first variety of the signature yellow color was introduced in 1931 and called Highway Yellow. In the late 70s. It was swapped out for the caterpillar yellow that still coats the company's products.

You know, every-time I spell color like above, and not the British way of saying colour, a soviet teacher always says I'm wrong. In the soviet union there was no such thing as variance. Go figure.

We can change the sentence to It was changed to the color yellow. Swapped out is just a phrasal verb, nothing more and nothing less. People like to use phrasal verbs because they like to looks at themselves as a young sophisticated aristocrat. 

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