sub vs swap out

sub

verb
  • To substitute for. 

  • To replace (a player) with a substitute. 

  • To lend. 

  • To subscribe. 

  • To take a submissive role. 

  • To coat with a layer of adhering material; to planarize by means of such a coating. 

  • To work as a substitute teacher, especially in primary and secondary education. 

  • To prepare (a slide) with a layer of transparent substance to support and/or fix the sample. 

  • Less commonly, and often as sub on, to bring on (a player) as a substitute. 

  • To subtitle (usually a film or television program). 

  • To perform the work of a subeditor or copy editor; to subedit. 

noun
  • Subsistence money: part of a worker's wages paid before the work is finished. 

  • A subtitle. 

  • A submarine sandwich: a sandwich made on a long bun. 

  • A subroutine (sometimes one that does not return a value, as distinguished from a function, which does). 

  • A substitute, often in sports or teaching. 

  • A subcontractor. 

  • A subeditor. 

  • A submarine. 

  • A subwoofer. 

  • A subscription: a payment made for membership of a club, etc. 

  • A submissive. 

  • A subscription (or (by extension) a subscriber) to an online channel or feed. 

prep
  • Under. 

swap out

verb
  • To exchange (something) for (something else). (usually followed by with or for) 

  • To transfer (memory contents) into a swap file. 

  • To exchange (something or someone) for an unused (or less-used) equivalent. 

noun
  • Anything that is swapped out for another; an exchange. 

  • A pre-prepared food item used in place of an unfinished food item in order to cut down the overall preparation time during filming. 

How often have the words sub and swap out occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )