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SCROLL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A document that can be rolled up (as for storage)
Synonyms:
roll; scroll
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
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)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals)
Synonyms:
coil; curl; curlicue; gyre; ringlet; roll; scroll; whorl
Classified under:
Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes
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)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Move through text or graphics in order to display parts that do not fit on the screen
Example:
Scroll down to see the entire text
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
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:
While we admired he brought more and the soft rich heap mounted higher—shirts with stripes and scrolls and plaids in coral and apple-green and lavender and faint orange with monograms of Indian blue.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)