scroll
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
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graphical-user-interface
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medicine
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
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Etymology: From Middle English scrowle, scrolle, from earlier scrowe, scrouwe (influenced by Middle English rolle), from Old French escroe, escrowe, escrouwe (“scroll, strip of parchment”), from Frankish *skrōda (“a shred”), from Proto-Germanic *skraudō, from *skrew- (“to cut; cutting tool”), extension of *(s)ker- (“to cut”). Doublet of shred and escrow.
Inflected forms:
form: scrolls
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: scrolls
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: scrolling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: scrolled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: scrolled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A roll of paper or parchment; a writing formed into a roll.
pos: noun
gloss: An ornament formed of undulations giving off spirals or sprays, usually suggestive of plant form. Roman architectural ornament is largely of some scroll pattern.
pos: noun
gloss: Spirals or sprays in the shape of an actual plant.
pos: noun
examples: I lose myself
in a flawed henna plant
jutting toward the scroll.
Its rose-pink eyes burst
off the stems.
gloss: 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.] Alexander Mansfield Burrill.
pos: noun
gloss: The carved end of a violin, viola, cello or other stringed instrument, most commonly scroll-shaped but occasionally in the form of a human or animal head.
pos: noun
gloss: A skew surface.
pos: noun
gloss: A kind of sweet roll baked in a somewhat spiral shape.
pos: noun
examples: I ordered a glass of lemonade and a coffee scroll.
gloss: The incremental movement of graphics on a screen, removing one portion to show the next.
pos: noun
examples: […] the computer sends orders, via electrical impulses, to recompose the liquid crystal structure inside the cells quickly which results in the familiar smooth scroll of the pointer on your screen.
gloss: A spiral waterway placed round a turbine to regulate the flow.
pos: noun
gloss: A turbinate bone.
pos: noun
gloss: A rough draft of anything.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: The act of scrolling.
pos: noun
examples: I gave the terms and conditions a quick scroll before signing up to the website.
Silicon Valley’s dirtiest design feature – which is everywhere once you spot it – is the infinite scroll, likened to the “bottomless soup bowl” experiment, in which participants will keep mindlessly eating from a soup bowl if it keeps refilling.
gloss: To change one's view of data on a computer's display by moving in gradual increments, typically using an input device or touch screen.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: She scrolled the offending image out of view.
She kept scrolling until she found the desired paragraph.
Use the stylus to scroll up and down the list or flip through the pages left and right.
gloss: To move in or out of view horizontally or vertically.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The rising credits slowly scrolled off the screen.
The piano plays on. I watch those little rectangles as they scroll down from the top.
Pavement scrolled beneath the headlight beams, reminding Emma of a conveyor belt.
gloss: To continuously and aimlessly consume content on social media, especially on websites or apps with a scrolling feed, such as Instagram, TikTok, or X.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: With millions of creators worldwide, many of whom are generating income through brand partnerships, affiliate deals, and platform monetization, influencers are likely popping up any time you pick up a phone to scroll.
gloss: To flood a chat system with numerous lines of text, causing legitimate messages to scroll out of view before they can be read.
pos: verb
tags: Internet
dated
intransitive
examples: Hey, stop scrolling!
It's cool but i know why I prefer newsgroups : I just got banned for scrolling or summat : i was typing one word in each message so pppl^([sic]) could read it cos it was going so fast - geez.
If you want to join this riot, we urge you to! You wont have to worry about being TOSed or reported because there will be no Guides online! So do whatever you want—punt, scroll, tos, just turn AOL into a war zone!
gloss: To draft; to write in rough outline.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
Derived words: cheesymite scroll
doomscrolling
garlic scroll
infinite scroll
overscroll
push-scrolling
scroll bar
scroll-gall
scroll lock
scroll saw
scroll weight
scroll wheel
scrollytelling
side scroller
side-scrolling
Vitruvian scroll
wave scroll
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