scroll

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.

Pronounced as (IPA)

/skɹoʊl/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: scrowle

Cognate with Middle English: 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.

Synonyms

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

Translations

Schriftrolle

📜

volute

rouleau

rol

rotolo

Rolle

ρόλος

blättern

rôle

pergaminho

rollo

chiocciola

🐌

sfogliare

rotlle

📜

feuilleter