: 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.
Recent Examples on the Web
Noun
And then there are the endless anecdotes from teens who don't know how to look away from apps designed to deliver a steady scroll of dopamine hits.—Theunis Bates, theweek, 25 June 2024 Keeping up with the news feels like watching two movies on different screens, while also thumbing through a social-media scroll.—Harry Siegel, New York Daily News, 11 May 2024
Verb
Read more Keep scrolling Beyoncé defined the 2024 BET Awards.—Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 1 July 2024 Keep scrolling for more kitchen deals from The Pioneer Woman at Walmart.—Rachel Trujillo, Southern Living, 1 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for scroll
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Word History
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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