scroll

[skrohl] /skroʊl/
noun
1.
a roll of parchment, paper, copper, or other material, especially one with writing on it:
a scroll containing the entire Old Testament.
2.
something, especially an ornament, resembling a partly unrolled sheet of paper or having a spiral or coiled form.
3.
a list, roll, roster, or schedule.
4.
(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.
5.
the curved head of a violin or other bowed instrument.
6.
a note, message, or other piece of writing.
verb (used with object)
7.
to cut into a curved form with a narrow-bladed saw.
8.
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)
9.
Computers. to move text vertically or horizontally on a display screen in searching for a particular section, line, etc.
Origin
1350-1400; Middle English scrowle; blend of scrow, aphetic variant of escrow and rowle roll
Related forms
scroll-like, adjective
Examples from the web for scroll
  • Once your eyes take over, you no longer have to physically scroll down a page.
  • Using your fingers, scroll down to continue reading an article.
  • Your only option is to painstakingly scroll through your favorites and extract any relevant information from them manually.
  • scroll down to see the data sliced and diced in various different ways.
  • scroll down to view a larger version of this diagram.
  • The transcript will automatically scroll as the audio is played.
  • And if you scroll down the study it shows this sample compared to the study sample and there are significant differences.
  • The iconic white headphones, round scroll wheel, etc.
  • The site is wider than my screen, forcing me to scroll horizontally.
  • Tap an item to hear it, double tap to activate it, swipe three fingers to scroll.
British Dictionary definitions for scroll

scroll

/skrəʊl/
noun
1.
a roll of parchment, paper, etc, usually inscribed with writing
2.
an ancient book in the form of a roll of parchment, papyrus, etc
3.
  1. a decorative carving or moulding resembling a scroll
  2. (as modifier): a scroll saw
  3. (in combination): scrollwork
verb
4.
(transitive) to saw into scrolls
5.
to roll up like a scroll
6.
(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
C15 scrowle, from scrowe, from Old French escroe scrap of parchment, but also influenced by roll
Word Origin and History for scroll
n.

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.

v.

"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.

scroll in Technology


String and Character Recording Oriented Logogrammatic Language.
["SCROLL - A Pattern Recording Language", M. Sargent, Proc SJCC 36 (1970)].
(1994-12-01)

interface
(From a scroll of paper) To change the portion of a document displayed in a window or on a VDU screen. In a graphical user interface, scrolling is usually controlled by the user via scroll bars, whereas on a VDU the text scrolls up automatically as lines of data are output at the bottom of the screen.
(2001-04-27)