scroll

Signification (Anglais)

Noun

1. A roll of paper or parchment; a writing formed into a roll.
2. An ornament formed of undulations giving off spirals or sprays, usually suggestive of plant form. Roman architectural ornament is largely of some scroll pattern.
3. Spirals or sprays in the shape of an actual plant.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. A skew surface.
7. A kind of sweet roll baked in a somewhat spiral shape.
8. The incremental movement of graphics on a screen, removing one portion to show the next.
9. A spiral waterway placed round a turbine to regulate the flow.
10. A turbinate bone.
11. (obsolete) A rough draft of anything.
12. The act of scrolling

Verb

1. (ambitransitive) 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.
2. (intransitive) To move in or out of view horizontally or vertically.
3. (Internet, dated, intransitive) To flood a chat system with numerous lines of text, causing legitimate messages to scroll out of view before they can be read.
4. (obsolete, transitive) To draft; to write in rough outline.

Concepts

volute

rouleau

rôle

faire défiler

feuilleter

parchemin

crosse

verticille

dérouler un manuscrit

faire défile

volumen

ascenseur

scroller

📜

boucle

➿

coquille

🐚

défiler

dérouler

feuiller

manuscrit

Synonymes

roll

coil

volute

curl

whorl

browse

spiral

roller

crook

scrolling

curlicue

gyre

picture

drum

🥁

ringlet

long story

leaf

loop

➿

papyrus

parcel

parchment

ring

💍

run down

scroll bar

spring roll

thumb

trail

twine

twist

winding

lacrosse stick

lengthy document

scrollwork

scroll roller

rolled book

book

📖

ancone

bowl

bundle

butt

crosier

crosshead

cross-head

crozier

document

flick

flip

golf club

grip

head

Traductions

Schriftrolle

📜

rotolo

rol

ρόλος

Rolle

rollo

pergaminho

blättern

scrollen

sfogliare

scrollen

📜

rotlle

📜

Schnörkel

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/skɹoʊl/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: scrowle

Appartenant à moyen anglais: rolle

In summary

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.