scroll

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To move text or images up, down, or across a screen to see different parts.

   She scrolled down the page to read the rest of the article.

2. 2
   verb

   To keep looking through social media content without any real aim.

   He spent the whole evening scrolling through videos on his phone.

3. 3
   noun

   A roll of paper or parchment used for writing, especially in the past.

   The museum displayed an ancient scroll covered in faded ink.

4. 4
   noun

   The act of scrolling through content on a screen.

   I gave the terms and conditions a quick scroll before signing up.

Common collocations

• scroll saw Noun + noun

From Middle English scrowle, scrolle, from earlier scrowe, scrouwe (influenced by Middle English rolle), from Old French escroe, escrowe, escrouwe (“scroll, strip of parchment”), from Frankish *skrōda (“a shred”), from Proto-Germanic *skraudō, from *skrew- (“to cut; cutting tool”), extension of *(s)ker- (“to cut”). Doublet of shred and escrow.

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