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)
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to cut into a curved form with a narrow-bladed saw.
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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)
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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 escrowand rowleroll]
A roll, as of parchment or papyrus, used especially for writing a document.
An ancient book or volume written on such a roll.
A list or schedule of names.
An ornament or ornamental design that resembles a partially rolled scroll of paper, as the volute in Ionic and Corinthian capitals.
Music The curved head on an instrument of the violin family.
Heraldry A ribbon inscribed with a motto.
v.
scrolled, scroll·ing, scrolls
v.
tr.
To inscribe on a scroll.
To roll up into a scroll.
To ornament with a scroll.
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
To cause displayed text or graphics to move up, down, or across the screen: scrolled down to the end of the document.
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.]
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.
scrollinterface (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)
Es*crol"\, Escroll \Es*croll"\, n. [See Escrow, Scroll.]1. A scroll. [Obs.] 2. (Her.) (a) A long strip or scroll resembling a ribbon or a band of parchment, or the like, anciently placed above the shield, and supporting the crest. (b) In modern heraldry, a similar ribbon on which the motto is inscribed.
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