scroll
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noun
1.
a roll of parchment, paper, copper, or other material, especially one with writing on it: a scroll containing the entire Old Testament.
2.
something, especially an ornament, resembling a partly unrolled sheet of paper or having a spiral or coiled form.
3.
a list, roll, roster, or schedule.
4.
5.
the curved head of a violin or other bowed instrument.
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.
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verb (used without object)
9.
Computers. to move text vertically or horizontally on a display screen in searching for a particular section, line, etc.
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scroll (skrəʊl) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a roll of parchment, paper, etc, usually inscribed with writing |
| 2. | an ancient book in the form of a roll of parchment, papyrus, etc |
| 3. | a. a decorative carving or moulding resembling a scroll |
| b. (as modifier): a scroll saw | |
| c. (in combination): scrollwork | |
| —vb | |
| 4. | (tr) to saw into scrolls |
| 5. | to roll up like a scroll |
| 6. | computing to move (text) from right to left or up and down on a screen in order to view text that cannot be contained within a single display image |
| [C15 scrowle, from scrowe, from Old French escroe scrap of parchment, but also influenced by | |
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Word Origin & History
scroll
c.1400, "roll of parchment or paper," altered (by association with rolle "roll") from scrowe (early 13c.), 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 c.1600; sense of "show a few lines at a time" (on a computer or TV screen) first recorded 1981. Related: Scrolled; scrolling.
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FOLDOC
Computing Dictionary
SCROLL definition
String and Character Recording Oriented Logogrammatic Language.
["SCROLL - A Pattern Recording Language", M. Sargent, Proc SJCC 36 (1970)].
(1994-12-01)
scroll definition
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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