scroll
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A diminutive of Old English scroue, scrowe, Late Latin scroa scroll, probably of Teutonic origin.
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scroll (plural scrolls)
- A roll of paper or parchment; a writing formed into a roll; a schedule; a list.
- (architecture) An ornament formed of undulations giving off spirals or sprays, usually suggestive of plant form. Roman architectural ornament is largely of some scroll pattern.
- A mark or flourish added to a person's signature, intended to represent a seal, and in some States allowed as a substitute for a seal. [U.S.] Alexander Mansfield Burrill.
- Scroll-shaped end of a violin.
- (geometry) a skew surface.
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roll of paper or parchment
ornament
mark or flourish
end of a violin
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Skew surface
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to scroll (third-person singular simple present scrolls, present participle scrolling, simple past and past participle scrolled)
- (computing): to change one's view of data on a computer's display using a scroll bar or a scroll wheel.
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(Computing) to change one's view of data on a computer's display
