scroll
UK /skɹəʊl/ · US /skɹoʊl/ noun, verb
Forms scrolls scrolling scrolled
- noun A roll of paper or parchment; a writing formed into a roll.
- noun (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.
- noun Spirals or sprays in the shape of an actual plant.
- noun 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.
- noun (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.
- noun (geometry) A skew surface.
- noun (cooking) A kind of sweet roll baked in a somewhat spiral shape. “I ordered a glass of lemonade and a coffee scroll.”
- noun (computer graphics) The incremental movement of graphics on a screen, removing one portion to show the next.
- verb (ambitransitive, computing, graphical user interface) To change one's view of data on a computer's display by moving in gradual increments, typically using an input device or touch screen. “She scrolled the offending image out of view.”
- verb (intransitive) To move in or out of view horizontally or vertically. “The rising credits slowly scrolled off the screen.”
- verb (intransitive) To continuously and aimlessly consume content on social media, especially on websites or apps with a scrolling feed, such as Instagram, TikTok, or X.
- verb (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. “Hey, stop scrolling!”
- verb (obsolete, transitive) To draft; to write in rough outline.
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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.
Webster’s 1913
- noun A roll of paper or parchment; a writing formed into a roll; a schedule; a list.
- noun An ornament formed of undulations giving off spirals or sprays, usually suggestive of plant form. Roman architectural ornament is largely of some scroll pattern.
Etymology [A dim. of OE. scroue, scrowe (whence E. escrow), OF. escroe, escroue, F. écrou entry in the jail book, LL. scroa scroll, probably of Teutonic origin; cf. OD. schroode a strip, shred, slip of paper, akin to E. shred. Cf. Shred, Escrow.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “scroll”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details