scroll
English
Etymology
From Middle English scrowle, scrolle, from earlier scrowe, scrouwe (influenced by Middle English rolle), from Old French escroe, escrowe, escrouwe (“scroll, strip of parchment”), from Frankish *skrōda (“a shred”), from Proto-Germanic *skraudō, from *skrew- (“to cut; cutting tool”), extension of *(s)ker- (“to cut”). Doublet of shred and escrow.
Pronunciation
Noun
scroll (plural scrolls)
- A roll of paper or parchment; a writing formed into a roll.
- (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.
- Spirals or sprays in the shape of an actual plant.
- 1985, Peter Balakian, “The Oriental Rug”, in Robert Pack, Jay Parini, editors, Introspections: American poets on one of their own poems, Hanover and London: University Press of New England for Middlebury College Press, published 1997, →ISBN, page 31:
- I lose myself
in a flawed henna plant
jutting toward the scroll.
Its rose-pink eyes burst
off the stems.
- 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.
- (lutherie) The carved end of a violin, viola, cello or other stringed instrument, most commonly scroll-shaped but occasionally in the form of a human or animal head.
- (geometry) A skew surface.
- (cooking) A kind of sweet roll baked in a somewhat spiral shape.
- I ordered a glass of lemonade and a coffee scroll.
- (computer graphics) The incremental movement of graphics on a screen, removing one portion to show the next.
- 2005, Alberto de Lózar Muñoz, Liquid Crystal Dynamics: Defects, Walls and Gels (page 1)
- […] the computer sends orders, via electrical impulses, to recompose the liquid crystal structure inside the cells quickly which results in the familiar smooth scroll of the pointer on your screen.
- 2005, Alberto de Lózar Muñoz, Liquid Crystal Dynamics: Defects, Walls and Gels (page 1)
- (hydraulics) A spiral waterway placed round a turbine to regulate the flow.
- (anatomy) A turbinate bone.
Translations
roll of paper or parchment
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ornament
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mark or flourish
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end of a musical instrument
Skew surface
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Verb
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 to move in gradual increments.
- She scrolled the offending image out of view.
- (intransitive) To move in or out of view horizontally or vertically.
- The rising credits slowly scrolled off the screen.
- (Internet, intransitive) To flood a chat system with numerous lines of text, causing legitimate messages to scroll out of view before they can be read.
- Hey, stop scrolling!
- 1998, "rOOth", Brain's chat (on newsgroup alt.music.queen)
- It's cool but i know why I prefer newsgroups : I just got banned for scrolling or summat : i was typing one word in each message so pppl[sic] could read it cos it was going so fast - geez.
Descendants
Translations
(Computing) to change one's view of data on a computer's display
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Spanish
Noun
scroll m (plural scrolls)
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