SCROLL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does scroll mean? 

• SCROLL (noun)
  The noun SCROLL has 2 senses:

1. a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals)

2. a document that can be rolled up (as for storage)

  Familiarity information: SCROLL used as a noun is rare.

• SCROLL (verb)
  The verb SCROLL has 1 sense:

1. move through text or graphics in order to display parts that do not fit on the screen

  Familiarity information: SCROLL used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SCROLL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

Synonyms:

coil; curl; curlicue; gyre; ringlet; roll; scroll; whorl

Hypernyms ("scroll" is a kind of...):

round shape (a shape that is curved and without sharp angles)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "scroll"):

corolla ((botany) the whorl of petals of a flower that collectively form an inner floral envelope or layer of the perianth)

calyx ((botany) the whorl of sepals of a flower collectively forming the outer floral envelope or layer of the perianth enclosing and supporting the developing bud; usually green)

verticil (a whorl of leaves growing around a stem)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A document that can be rolled up (as for storage)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

roll; scroll

Hypernyms ("scroll" is a kind of...):

holograph; manuscript (handwritten book or document)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "scroll"):

Megillah ((Judaism) the scroll of parchment that contains the biblical story of Esther; traditionally read in synagogues to celebrate Purim)

Torah ((Judaism) the scroll of parchment on which the first five books of the Hebrew Scripture is written; is used in a synagogue during services)

Instance hyponyms:

Dead Sea scrolls ((Old Testament) a collection of written scrolls (containing nearly all of the Old Testament) found in a cave near the Dead Sea in the late 1940s)

Derivation:

scroll (move through text or graphics in order to display parts that do not fit on the screen)

• SCROLL (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they scroll    ... he / she / it scrolls   
Past simple: scrolled   
Past participle: scrolled   
-ing form: scrolling   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Move through text or graphics in order to display parts that do not fit on the screen

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

Scroll down to see the entire text

Hypernyms (to "scroll" is one way to...):

move (go or proceed from one point to another)

Domain category:

computer science; computing (the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

scroll (a document that can be rolled up (as for storage))

 Context examples 

Thou shalt come back neither to Beaulieu nor to any of the granges of Beaulieu, and thy name shall be struck off the scrolls of the order.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The front end of the sled was turned up, like a scroll, in order to force down and under the bore of soft snow that surged like a wave before it.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Religion called—Angels beckoned—God commanded—life rolled together like a scroll—death's gates opening, showed eternity beyond: it seemed, that for safety and bliss there, all here might be sacrificed in a second.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

But marriage bells at the end was the one thing he could take no liberties with; though the heavens rolled up as a scroll and the stars fell, the wedding bells must go on ringing just the same.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Hitherto it had touched him on the intellectual side alone; but now his imagination also was engaged, or rather enslaved; and as he lay and tossed in the gross darkness of the night and the curtained room, Mr. Enfield’s tale went by before his mind in a scroll of lighted pictures.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

A good padre in France read to us from a scroll the whole truth of the matter.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

His sisters were gone to Morton in my stead: I sat reading Schiller; he, deciphering his crabbed Oriental scrolls.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

These coats-of-arms could be read, where a scroll would be meaningless, and the bowman, like most men of his age, was well versed in the common symbols of heraldry.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The chancellor rose, and having slowly unrolled the parchment-scroll, proceeded to read it out in a thick and pompous voice, while a subdued rustle and movement among the brothers bespoke the interest with which they followed the proceedings.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I tell you, my fair lord, she was saying, that it is no fit training for a demoiselle: hawks and hounds, rotes and citoles singing a French rondel, or reading the Gestes de Doon de Mayence, as I found her yesternight, pretending sleep, the artful, with the corner of the scroll thrusting forth from under her pillow.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)