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   scroll

   /skrəʊl/

   noun

   • 1. a roll of parchment or paper for writing on.
   • ▪ an ancient book or document written on a scroll.
   • ▪ an ornamental design or carving resembling a partly unrolled scroll of parchment, e.g. on the capital of a column, or at the end of a stringed instrument.
   • ▪ a depiction of a narrow ribbon bearing a motto or inscription.
   • 2. the facility that moves a display on a screen in order to allow different parts of it to be viewed: "if scroll is enabled, the window scrolls down"

   verb

   • 1. move displayed text or graphics on a screen in a particular direction in order to view different parts of them: "she scrolled through her file"
   • ▪ (of displayed text or graphics) move up, down, or across a screen: "the words of the story begin scrolling up the screen"
   • 2. cause to move like paper rolling or unrolling: "the wind scrolled back the uppermost layer of loose dust"

   Word Origin late Middle English: alteration of obsolete scrow ‘roll’, shortening of escrow.

   Derivatives

   • 1. scrollable adjective

   Scrabble Points: 8

   • S

     1

   • C

     3

   • R

     1

   • O

     1

   • L

     1

   • L

     1

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