scroll

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[edit] English

A diminutive of Old English scroue, scrowe, Late Latin scroa scroll, probably of Teutonic origin.

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.

roll of paper or parchment

ornament

mark or flourish

end of a violin

Skew surface

scroll (third-person singular simple present scrolls, present participle scrolling, simple past and past participle scrolled)

(computing, transitive) To change one's view of data on a computer's display, typically using a scroll bar or a scroll wheel.

She scrolled the offending image out of view.
(computing, intransitive) To move in or out of view horizontally or vertically.

The rising credits slowly scrolled off the screen.

(Computing) to change one's view of data on a computer's display