scroll

[ skrohl ]

/ skroʊl /

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noun

a roll of parchment, paper, copper, or other material, especially one with writing on it: a scroll containing the entire Old Testament.

something, especially an ornament, resembling a partly unrolled sheet of paper or having a spiral or coiled form.

a list, roll, roster, or schedule.

(in Japanese and Chinese art) a painting or text on silk or paper that is either displayed on a wall (hanging scroll) or held by the viewer (hand scroll) and is rolled up when not in use.Compare kakemono, makimono.

the curved head of a violin or other bowed instrument.

a note, message, or other piece of writing.

verb (used with object)

to cut into a curved form with a narrow-bladed saw.

Computers. to move (text) up, down, or across a display screen, with new text appearing on the screen as old text disappears.

verb (used without object)

Computers. to move text vertically or horizontally on a display screen in searching for a particular section, line, etc.

Nearby words

scrofulous, scrofulously, scrog, scroggin, scroggy, scroll, scroll bone, scroll foot, scroll saw, scrollhead, scrollwork

Origin of scroll

1350–1400; Middle English scrowle; blend of scrow, aphetic variant of escrow and rowle roll

Related formsscroll-like, adjective

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Examples from the Web for scroll

Now you can scroll to the next direction on your recipe without getting batter or sauce all over your device.
The Daily Beast’s 2014 Holiday Gift Guide: For the Richard Hendriks in Your Life|Allison McNearney|November 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The solution they came up with was the scroll, which let viewers walk through the painting as they unfurled it.
The Many Lives of Artist David Hockney|William O’Connor|November 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST
And if you scroll down the complete Midas List, some visible trends begin to emerge.
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I was able to scroll through my feed and read nothing but tweets about Ferguson.
The Real Nightmare of Ferguson|James Poulos|August 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Inked onto his ribs is a single rifle bayoneted into the dirt with names listed on a scroll—his dead friends.
War Nostalgia Is Leading Veterans to Places Like Syria. One Went Missing There.|Elliot Ackerman|May 3, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Its scroll is turned up at the ends like a scout's mouth, because he does his duty with a smile and willingly.
Boy Scouts Handbook|Boy Scouts of America
This scroll was signed with a stamp of cherubim's wings, not spread, but hanging downwards; and by them a cross.
Ideal Commonwealths|Various
He finally gave up making the Scroll Top and made my new kind altogether.
History of the American Clock Business for the Past Sixty Years, and Life of Chauncey Jerome|Chauncey Jerome
First Abe turned the violin upside down and scrutinized the scroll, neck, belly, and back.
Abe and Mawruss|Montague Glass
Once more he looked upon the scroll—once more its words he read— Then calmly, with unflinching hand, its folds before him spread.
The Book of Humorous Verse|Various

British Dictionary definitions for scroll

scroll

/ (skrəʊl) /

noun

a roll of parchment, paper, etc, usually inscribed with writing

an ancient book in the form of a roll of parchment, papyrus, etc

a decorative carving or moulding resembling a scroll
(as modifier)a scroll saw
(in combination)scrollwork

verb

(tr) to saw into scrolls

to roll up like a scroll

computing to move (text) from right to left or up and down on a screen in order to view text that cannot be contained within a single display image

Word Origin for scroll

C15 scrowle, from scrowe, from Old French escroe scrap of parchment, but also influenced by roll

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Word Origin and History for scroll (1 of 2)

scroll

c.1400, "roll of parchment or paper," altered (by association with rolle "roll") from scrowe (c.1200), from Anglo-French escrowe, Old French escroe "scrap, roll of parchment," from Frankish *skroda "shred" or a similar Germanic source, from Proto-Germanic *skrauth- (cf. Old English screada "piece cut off, cutting, scrap;" see shred (n.)). As an ornament on furniture or in architecture, from 1610s.

Word Origin and History for scroll (1 of 2)

scroll

"to write down in a scroll," c.1600, from scroll (n.). Sense of "show a few lines at a time" (on a computer or TV screen) first recorded 1981. Related: Scrolled; scrolling.

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