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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))

Credits

 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)