scroll
/skɹoʊl/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.86 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An ornament formed of undulations giving off spirals or sprays, usually suggestive of plant form. Roman architectural ornament is largely of some scroll pattern.
noun
A mark or flourish added to a person's signature, intended to represent a seal, and in some States allowed as a substitute for a seal. [U.S.] Alexander Mansfield Burrill.
noun
The carved end of a violin, viola, cello or other stringed instrument, most commonly scroll-shaped but occasionally in the form of a human or animal head.
noun
A skew surface.
Example Sentences
- "I lose myself in a flawed henna plant jutting toward the scroll. Its rose-pink eyes burst off the stems."
- "I ordered a glass of lemonade and a coffee scroll."
- "[…] the computer sends orders, via electrical impulses, to recompose the liquid crystal structure inside the cells quickly which results in the familiar smooth scroll of the pointer on your screen."
- "I gave the terms and conditions a quick scroll before signing up to the website."
- "Silicon Valley’s dirtiest design feature – which is everywhere once you spot it – is the infinite scroll, likened to the “bottomless soup bowl” experiment, in which participants will keep mindlessly eating from a soup bowl if it keeps refilling."
- "She scrolled the offending image out of view."
Etymology
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.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: scrowle, escroe, *skraudu, *skraudō
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /skɹoʊl/
- British English: /skɹəʊl/