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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]

scroll-like, adjective
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scroll    Audio Help   (skrōl)  Pronunciation Key 
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.
  1. A list or schedule of names.
  2. An ornament or ornamental design that resembles a partially rolled scroll of paper, as the volute in Ionic and Corinthian capitals.
  3. Music The curved head on an instrument of the violin family.
  4. 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.]

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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
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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scroll

noun
1. a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals) [syn: coil
2. a document that can be rolled up (as for storage) 

verb
1. move through text or graphics in order to display parts that do not fit on the screen; "Scroll down to see the entire text" 

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Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
scroll [skrəul] noun
a roll of paper or parchment with writing on it
Arabic: دُرْج أسْطُواني للكِتابَه
Chinese (Simplified): (羊皮纸)卷轴
Chinese (Traditional): (羊皮紙)卷軸
Czech: svitek
Danish: skriftrulle
Dutch: boekrol
Estonian: kirjarull
Finnish: kirjakäärö
French: rouleau
German: die Schriftrolle
Greek: κύλινδρος χαρτιού ή περγαμηνής
Hungarian: (kézirat)tekercs
Icelandic: bókrolla
Indonesian: gulungan perkamen
Italian: rotolo
Japanese: 巻物
Korean: 두루마리
Latvian: (papirusa, pergamenta) tīstoklis
Lithuanian: ritinys, ritinėlis
Norwegian: skriftrulle
Polish: zwój papieru, *pergaminu
Portuguese (Brazil): rolo
Portuguese (Portugal): rolo
Romanian: rulou
Russian: свиток
Slovak: zvitok
Slovenian: zvitek
Spanish: rollo
Swedish: pergaments-, skriftrulle
Turkish: tomar
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary, © 2000-2006 K Dictionaries Ltd.
Free On-line Dictionary of Computing - Cite This Source - Share This

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

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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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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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Scroll

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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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