: to cause (text or graphics on a display screen) to move in scrolling
Examples of scroll in a Sentence
Noun
He read from the scroll.
a scarf with lovely green scrolls on it Verb
You have to scroll the screen to see the bottom of the Web page.
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Noun
The teaser runs like a Star Wars space scroll, summarizing all the sequels and series that have come out since Brooks spoofed that franchise with Spaceballs in the Eighties.—Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 12 June 2025 The scroll wheel gets a notable upgrade in this generation compared with the Pro Click V1.—PC Magazine, 11 June 2025
Verb
Ask your teen to show you their feed and scroll through it together.—Laura Edelson, Scientific American, 16 June 2025 For ideas, Waheed looks to his experiences, scrolls social media trends and news headlines.—Steven Bertoni, Forbes.com, 16 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for scroll
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Etymology
Noun
Middle English scrowle, blend of rolle roll and scrowe scrap, scroll (from Anglo-French escrowe, of Germanic origin; akin to Middle Dutch schrode piece cut off, Old High German scrōt) — more at shred entry 1
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