scroll
To scroll is to move up and down or across a page on an electronic device using a mouse or touch screen.
(verb)Scroll means using your mouse to look at a website from top to bottom.
The definition of a scroll is a rolled up piece of printed or written material.
(noun)An example of a scroll is a Torah, the traditional Hebrew bible.
See scroll in Webster's New World College Dictionary
noun
- a roll of parchment, paper, etc., usually with writing or pictures on it
- an ancient book in the form of a rolled manuscript
- a list of names; roll; roster: the scroll of fame
- anything having the form of a partly unrolled or loosely rolled sheet of paper, as the volute of an Ionic capital, or the ornamentally rolled end of the neck of a violin, etc.
Origin: ME scrowle, altered (? by assoc. with rowle, var. of rolle, roll) < scrowe < OFr escroue: see escrow
intransitive verb, transitive verb
Related Forms:
- scrolled adjective
See scroll in American Heritage Dictionary 4
noun
- a. A roll, as of parchment or papyrus, used especially for writing a document.b. 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.
- 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.
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).
Origin:
Origin: Middle English scrowle
Origin: , alteration (influenced by rolle, roll)
Origin: of scrowe
Origin: , from Old French escroue, escroe, strip of parchment, scroll
Origin: , of Germanic origin
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