scroll (skr l)n. 1. a. A roll, as of parchment or papyrus, used especially for writing a document. b. An ancient book or volume written on such a roll. 2. A list or schedule of names. 3. An ornament or ornamental design that resembles a partially rolled scroll of paper, as the volute in Ionic and Corinthian capitals. 4. Music The curved head on an instrument of the violin family. 5. Heraldry A ribbon inscribed with a motto. v. scrolled, scroll·ing, scrolls v.tr. 1. To inscribe on a scroll. 2. To roll up into a scroll. 3. To ornament with a scroll. 4. Computer Science 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: scroll a document; scroll a page of text. v.intr. Computer Science 1. To cause displayed text or graphics to move up, down, or across the screen: scrolled down to the end of the document. 2. To appear onscreen and roll by: "The information scrolls so fast it's unreadable" (Creative Computing). [Middle English scrowle, alteration (influenced by rolle, roll) of scrowe, from Old French escroue, escroe, strip of parchment, scroll, of Germanic origin.] |
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