Scroll
[skrəʊl] or [skrol]
Definition
(noun.) a document that can be rolled up (as for storage).
(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'.
Typist: Ralph--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A roll of paper or parchment; a writing formed into a roll; a schedule; a list.
(n.) An ornament formed of undulations giving off spirals or sprays, usually suggestive of plant form. Roman architectural ornament is largely of some scroll pattern.
(n.) 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.
(n.) Same as Skew surface. See under Skew.
Editor: Sharon
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Schedule, roll of paper or parchment.[2]. Flourish, paraph.[3]. Volute, spiral ornament.
Checker: Osbert
Definition
n. a roll of paper or parchment: a writing in the form of a roll: a rough draft of anything: a schedule: a flourish added to a person's signature as a substitute for a seal: in hydraulics a spiral water-way placed round a turbine to regulate the flow of water: (anat.) a turbinate bone: (archit.) a spiral ornament the volute of the Ionic and Corinthian capitals.—v.t. to draft: to write in rough outline.—adj. Scrolled formed into a scroll: ornamented with scrolls.—ns. Scroll′-head an ornamental piece at the bow of a vessel; Scroll′-wheel a cog-wheel in the form of a scroll; Scroll′-work ornamental work of scroll-like character.
Checker: Williams
Examples
- The peasant took the scroll, which contained only a few lines in Hebrew. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The victim of her witcheries can only name the fatal scroll, the spell inscribed on which is, doubtless, the cause of his silence. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- It is safe with me, said the Outlaw, so be that this thy scroll produce the sum therein nominated and set down. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Yet read the scroll, said the Rabbi; peradventure it may be that we may yet find out a way of deliverance. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Seek out Isaac of York--here is that will pay for horse and man--let him have this scroll. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Meantime bear thou this scroll--But soft--canst read, Sir Priest? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Let us profit by your most reverend knowledge, then, said De Bracy; what says the scroll? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- That scroll which warned thee to demand a champion, from whom couldst thou think it came, if not from Bois-Guilbert? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- A little way within the shop-door lay heaps of old crackled parchment scrolls and discoloured and dog's-eared law-papers. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- There are two bronze skeletons bearing scrolls, and two great dragons uphold the sarcophagus. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- His sisters were gone to Morton in my stead: I sat reading Schiller; he, deciphering his crabbed Oriental scrolls. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Sometimes the rat-tail was shaped like a long V and grooved, while on each side were elaborate scrolls. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Here was an image of the god which could speak, move its head, and accept or reject scrolls of inquiry. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Typed by Greta