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Definition of Scroll
1. Verb. Move through text or graphics in order to display parts that do not fit on the screen. "Scroll down to see the entire text"
2. Noun. A round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals).
Specialized synonyms: Corolla, Calyx, Verticil
Generic synonyms: Round Shape
Derivative terms: Coil, Coil, Curl, Curl, Curl, Roll, Roll, Roll
3. Noun. A document that can be rolled up (as for storage).
Generic synonyms: Holograph, Manuscript
Specialized synonyms: Dead Sea Scrolls
Specialized synonyms: Megillah, Torah
Definition of Scroll
1. n. A roll of paper or parchment; a writing formed into a roll; a schedule; a list.
Definition of Scroll
1. Noun. A roll of paper or parchment; a writing formed into a roll; a schedule; a list. ¹
2. 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. ¹
3. Noun. 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. ¹
4. Noun. Scroll-shaped end of a violin. ¹
5. Noun. (geometry) a skew surface. ¹
6. Verb. (computing transitive) To change one's view of data on a computer's display, typically using a scroll bar or a scroll wheel. ¹
7. Verb. (computing intransitive) To move in or out of view horizontally or vertically. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Scroll
1. to move text across a display screen [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Medical Definition of Scroll
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1. A roll of paper or parchment; a writing formed into a roll; a schedule; a list. "The heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll." (Isa. Xxxiv. 4) "Here is the scroll of every man's name." (Shak)
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. 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.
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Scroll
Literary usage of Scroll
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary: A Description of Tools, Instruments by Edward Henry Knight (1876)
"scroll-chuck. (Lathe.) A device for holding and centering work in the lathe. ...
The s<iw follows a scroll or other ornament, according to a pattern or ..."
2. A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical, and by Russell Sturgis (1901)
"1480. a conventual establishment for the copying of manuscripts. scroll. ...
Vitruvian scroll. A scroll of great simplicity, without leafage or the ..."
3. Colonial Furniture in America by Luke Vincent Lockwood (1921)
"Japanned scroll-Top High Chest of Drawers, 1720-30 93 91. scroll-Top High Chest
of Drawers, about 1725 94 92. scroll-Top High Chest of Drawers, 1730 95 93. ..."
4. The Law of Contracts by Samuel Williston, Clarence Martin Lewis (1920)
"A scroll or the word seal after the signature is sufficient. Colorado, Mills Stat.
... A scroll or device used as a seal has the same effect as a seal. ..."
5. Evolution in Art: As Illustrated by the Life-histories of Designs by Alfred Cort Haddon (1895)
"The spiral scroll ornament of modern India is a mixture and survival of the two.
... The spiral scroll is absolutely foreign to the ornamental systems of ..."
6. Evolution in Art: As Illustrated by the Life-histories of Designs by Alfred Cort Haddon (1907)
"The spiral scroll ornament of modern India is a mixture and survival of ...
The spiral scroll is absolutely foreign to the ornamental system^ of Polynesia. ..."
7. Evolution in Art: As Illustrated by the Life-histories of Designs by Alfred Cort Haddon (1895)
"The spiral scroll ornament of modern India is a mixture and survival of the two.
... The spiral scroll is absolutely foreign to the ornamental systems of ..."
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