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scroll

[skrohl]

–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)

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.
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.]

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Scroll

Scroll\, n. [A dim. of OE. scroue, scrowe (whence E. escrow), OF. escroe, escroue, F. ['e]crou 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.]

1. A roll of paper or parchment; a writing formed into a roll; a schedule; a list.

The heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll. --Isa. xxxiv. 4.

Here is the scroll of every man's name. --Shak.

2. (Arch.) An ornament formed of undulations giving off spirals or sprays, usually suggestive of plant form. Roman architectural ornament is largely of some scroll pattern.

3. 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.] --Burrill.

4. (Geom.) Same as Skew surface. See under Skew.

Linen scroll (Arch.) See under Linen.

Scroll chuck (Mach.), an adjustable chuck, applicable to a lathe spindle, for centering and holding work, in which the jaws are adjusted and tightened simultaneously by turning a disk having in its face a spiral groove which is entered by teeth on the backs of the jaws.

Scroll saw. See under Saw.

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Language Translation for : Scroll

Spanish: rollo,

German: die Schriftrolle,

Japanese: 巻物

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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.

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)

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