Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A roll, as of parchment or papyrus, used especially for writing a document.
  • noun An ancient book or volume written on such a roll.
  • noun A list or schedule of names.
  • noun An ornament or ornamental design that resembles a partially rolled scroll of paper, as the volute in Ionic and Corinthian capitals.
  • noun Music The curved head on an instrument of the violin family.
  • noun Heraldry A ribbon inscribed with a motto.
  • intransitive verb To inscribe on a scroll.
  • intransitive verb To roll up into a scroll.
  • intransitive verb To ornament with a scroll.
  • intransitive verb Computers 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.
  • intransitive verb To cause displayed text or graphics to move up, down, or across the screen.
  • intransitive verb To appear onscreen and roll by.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A roll of parchment or paper, or a writing formed into a roll; a list or schedule.
  • noun In a restricted sense, a draft or outline of what is afterward to be written out in full: also used attributively: as, a scroll minute.
  • noun An ornament of a spiral form; an ornament or appendage resembling a partly unrolled sheet Of paper.
  • noun In furniture and woodwork, a carved volute or spiral, especially such an ornament forming the arm of a sofa, rocking-chair, or the like.
  • noun The ribbon-like label proceeding from the mouths of speakers in old tapestries and illustrations.
  • noun In heraldry, the ribbon-like appendage to a crest or escutcheon on which the motto is inscribed. Also escroll.
  • noun In hydraulics, a spiral or converging ajutage or waterway placed around a turbine or other reaction water-wheel to equalize the rate of flow of water at all points around the circumference, by means of the progressive decrease in the capacity of the waterway.
  • noun In geometry, a skew surface, or non-developable ruled surface.
  • noun The mantling or lambrequin of a tilting-helmet.
  • noun In anatomy, a turbinate bone; a scroll-bone.
  • To write down in a scroll or roll of parchment or paper; commit to writing; inscribe.
  • To draft; write in rough outline. See scroll, n., 2.
  • To roll up or form into a scroll.
  • To ornament with scrolls or scrollwork.
  • To roll or curl up.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A roll of paper or parchment; a writing formed into a roll; a schedule; a list.
  • noun (Arch.) An ornament formed of undulations giving off spirals or sprays, usually suggestive of plant form. Roman architectural ornament is largely of some scroll pattern.
  • noun U.S. 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.
  • noun (Geom.) Same as Skew surface. See under Skew.
  • noun (Arch.) See under Linen.
  • noun (Mach.) an adjustable chuck, applicable to a lathe spindle, for centering and holding work, in which the jaws are adjusted and tightened simultaneously by turning a disk having in its face a spiral groove which is entered by teeth on the backs of the jaws.
  • noun See under Saw.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A roll of paper or parchment; a writing formed into a roll; a schedule; a list.
  • noun architecture An ornament formed of undulations giving off spirals or sprays, usually suggestive of plant form. Roman architectural ornament is largely of some scroll pattern.
  • noun Scroll-shaped end of a violin.
  • noun geometry a skew surface.
  • verb computing, transitive To change one's view of data on a computer's display, typically using a scroll bar or a scroll wheel.
  • verb computing, intransitive To move in or out of view horizontally or vertically.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a document that can be rolled up (as for storage)
  • noun a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals)
  • verb move through text or graphics in order to display parts that do not fit on the screen

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English scrowle, alteration (influenced by rolle, roll) of scrowe, from Old French escroue, escroe, strip of parchment, scroll, of Germanic origin.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

A diminutive of Old English scroue, scrowe, Late Latin scroa scroll, probably of Teutonic origin.

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Examples

  • i am using asp. net ajax combo box control. where i have an items [500 records binded to it]. now as the list grows i am not able to fixed the height with an scroll so that i can limit the height as much i wanted. ** but by default it is setting the scroll**

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  • A Torah in scroll is related to a bound edition because the latter couldn't exist without the former: the latter rises up from the former, perhaps inevitably.

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  • The carpenter who built a farmer's house differentiated it from the barn by putting what he called scroll work up under the eaves and by building at the front a porch with carved posts.

    Poor White Sherwood Anderson 1908

  • I still like to delete mail vs. archive on my Gmail via Pre, and I agree the Menu | Move to folder … scroll, scroll, scroll is tedious.

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  • By quickly rolling out technologies such as twin scroll turbochargers, gasoline direct injection, electric power steering and improved transmissions with 6-speeds, says George Peterson, president of automotive research firm AutoPacific in Tustin, Calif.

    What's Driving Hyundai's High Mileage Christina DesMarais 2010

  • By quickly rolling out technologies such as twin scroll turbochargers, gasoline direct injection, electric power steering and improved transmissions with 6-speeds, says George Peterson, president of automotive research firm AutoPacific in Tustin, Calif.

    What's Driving Hyundai's High Mileage Christina DesMarais 2010

  • Giving your names to put on the marriage scroll is consent.

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  • Maybe next time, you'll be officially listed and can watch your name scroll by on the credits.

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  • The second cover y'all see up on the scroll is not the cover at all, but I haven't seen a final yet, and I'm just relieved my publisher disliked that one.

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  • The scroll is slightly longer than the novel as it was finally published, after three subsequent conventionally formatted drafts, in 1957.

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