scroll

scroll

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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

  • enPR: skrōl, IPA(key): /skɹoʊl/
  • Rhymes: -əʊl

Noun

scroll (plural scrolls)

  1. A roll of paper or parchment; a writing formed into a roll.
  2. (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.
  3. Spirals or sprays in the shape of an actual plant.
  4. 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.
  5. (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.
  6. (geometry) A skew surface.
  7. (cooking) A kind of sweet roll baked in a somewhat spiral shape.
    I ordered a glass of lemonade and a coffee scroll.
  8. (computer graphics) The incremental movement of graphics on a screen, removing one portion to show the next.
  9. (hydraulics) A spiral waterway placed round a turbine to regulate the flow.
  10. (anatomy) A turbinate bone.

Translations

Verb

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

  1. (transitive, computing, graphical user interface) To change one's view of data on a computer's display by moving in gradual increments, typically using a scroll bar or a scroll wheel..
    Coordinate term: swipe
  2. (intransitive) To move in or out of view horizontally or vertically.
  3. (Internet, intransitive, dated) To flood a chat system with numerous lines of text, causing legitimate messages to scroll out of view before they can be read.

Descendants

  • Danish: scrolle
  • Icelandic: skrolla
  • German: scrollen

Translations

Derived terms

Anagrams

  • Crolls

Spanish

Noun

scroll m (plural scrolls)

  1. (computer games) scroll

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