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.

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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