Word forms: plural, 3rd person singular presenttense scrolls, present participle scrolling, past tense, past participle scrolled
1. countable noun
A scroll is a long roll of paper or a similar material with writing on it.
Ancient scrolls were found in caves by the Dead Sea.
Synonyms: roll, paper, parchment More Synonyms of scroll
2. countable noun
A scroll is a painted or carved decoration made to look like a scroll.
...a handsome suite of chairs incised with Grecian scrolls.
3. verb
If you scroll through text on a computer or phone screen, you move the text up or down to find the information that you need.
[computing]
I scrolled down to find 'United States of America'. [VERB preposition/adverb]
Synonyms: move, More Synonyms of scroll
scroll in British English
(skrəʊl)
noun
1.
a roll of parchment, paper, etc, usually inscribed with writing
2.
an ancient book in the form of a roll of parchment, papyrus, etc
3.
a.
a decorative carving or moulding resembling a scroll
b.
(as modifier)
a scroll saw
c.
(in combination)
scrollwork
verb
4. (transitive)
to saw into scrolls
5.
to roll up like a scroll
6. computing
to move (text) from right to left or up and down on a screen in order to view text that cannot be contained within a single display image
Word origin
C15 scrowle, from scrowe, from Old French escroe scrap of parchment, but also influenced by roll
scroll in American English
(skroʊl)
noun
1.
a roll of parchment, paper, etc., usually with writing or pictures on it
2.
an ancient book in the form of a rolled manuscript
3.
a list of names; roll; roster
the scroll of fame
4.
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.
verb intransitive, verb transitive
5.
to display (lines of text, television credits, etc.) by moving them vertically or horizontally on a video screen
Derived forms
scrolled
adjective
Word origin
ME scrowle, altered (? by assoc. with rowle, var. of rolle, roll) < scrowe < OFr escroue: see escrow
Examples of 'scroll' in a sentence
scroll
Comment on the influence of the picture scrolls on the woman.
Clerk, Jayana & Siegel, Ruth Modern Literatures of the Non-Western World: Where the Waters Are Born (1995)
The screen kept scrolling and scrolling down.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Time then scrolls back to her birth and childhood.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Is your life one long click and scroll?
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
The books and scrolls had been piled in heaps on the second bench.
Diana Wynne Jones CHARMED LIFE (1977)
Yet scroll through the images and things quickly turn nasty.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Who is worthy to open the scroll?
Christianity Today (2000)
Each news item takes up the screen and you scroll through them.
The Sun (2013)
This is his cue to scroll back through his history.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
Just tip it left or right to scroll through your images.
The Sun (2012)
It hits the ground running with a raft of gags in the scrolling text and the quality rarely dips.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
You cannot scroll down the text, only turn the page.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
A scrolling display of colours shows you what you need to press and when.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
A second was piled with books and scrolls.
Diana Wynne Jones CHARMED LIFE (1977)
She has decided to give up on being one of the true stars of The Apprentice to resume her studies of ancient scrolls.
The Sun (2009)
Hit the notes as instructed by the display scrolling on your monitor or TV screen and you're playing the genuine notes to the song.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
In other languages
scroll
British English: scroll NOUN
A scroll is a long roll of paper or a similar material with writing on it.
Ancient scrolls were found in caves.
American English: scroll
Brazilian Portuguese: rolo de pergaminho
Chinese: > 卷轴写有文字的
European Spanish: pergamino
French: rouleau
German: Schriftrolle
Italian: rotolo di carta
Japanese: 巻物
Korean: 두루마리
European Portuguese: rolo de pergaminho
Latin American Spanish: pergamino
British English: scroll VERB
If you scroll through text on a computer screen, you move the text up or down to find the information that you need.
I scrolled down to find the name.
American English: scroll
Brazilian Portuguese: rolar o texto para cima ou para baixo
Chinese: > 浏览写有文字的
European Spanish: desplazar
French: faire défiler le texte
German: scrollen
Italian: scorrere
Japanese: スクロールする
Korean: 컴퓨터 화면을 스크롤 하다
European Portuguese: rolar o texto para cima ou para baixo