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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.]
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