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scroll

  [skrohl]
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–noun
1. a roll of parchment, paper, copper, or other material, esp. one with writing on it: a scroll containing the entire Old Testament.
2. something, esp. 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; ME scrowle; b. scrow, aph. var. of escrow and rowle roll

Related forms:
scroll-like, adjective
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scroll   (skrōl)   
n.  

    1. A roll, as of parchment or papyrus, used especially for writing a document.

    2. An ancient book or volume written on such a roll.

  2. A list or schedule of names.

  3. An ornament or ornamental design that resembles a partially rolled scroll of paper, as the volute in Ionic and Corinthian capitals.

  4. Music The curved head on an instrument of the violin family.

  5. Heraldry A ribbon inscribed with a motto.

v.   scrolled, scroll·ing, scrolls

v.   tr.

  1. To inscribe on a scroll.

  2. To roll up into a scroll.

  3. To ornament with a scroll.

  4. Computer Science To cause (displayed text or graphics) to move up, down, or across the screen so that a line of text or graphics appears at one edge of the screen for each line that moves off the opposite edge: scroll a document; scroll a page of text.

v.   intr. Computer Science

  1. To cause displayed text or graphics to move up, down, or across the screen: scrolled down to the end of the document.

  2. To appear onscreen and roll by: "The information scrolls so fast it's unreadable" (Creative Computing).


[Middle English scrowle, alteration (influenced by rolle, roll) of scrowe, from Old French escroue, escroe, strip of parchment, scroll, of Germanic origin.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Word Origin & History

scroll  (n.)
1405, "roll of parchment or paper," altered (by association with rolle "roll") from scrowe (c.1225), from Anglo-Fr. escrowe, O.Fr. escroe "scrap, roll of parchment," from Frank. *skroda "shred" (cf. M.Du. schroode "shred," O.H.G. scrot "piece cut off," Ger. Schrot "log, block, small shot"), from P.Gmc. *skrautha "something cut." The verb meaning "to write down in a scroll" is recorded from 1606; sense of "show a few lines at a time" (on a computer or TV screen) first recorded 1981.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Computing Dictionary

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

scroll 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)

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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