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| 1. n. A roll of paper or parchment; a writing formed into a roll. |  |
| 2. n. (architecture) An ornament formed of undulations giving off spirals or sprays, usually suggestive of plant form. Roman architectural ornament is largely of some scroll pattern. | |
| 3. n. 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. | |
| 4. n. (lutherie) 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. | |
| 5. n. (geometry) a skew surface. | |
| 6. n. (cooking) A kind of sweet roll baked in a somewhat spiral shape. | |
| I ordered a glass of lemonade and a coffee scroll. | |
| 7. n. (computer graphics) The incremental movement of graphics on a screen, removing one portion to show the next. | |
| 8. v. (computing, transitive) To change one's view of data on a computer's display, typically using a scroll bar or a scroll wheel to move in gradual increments. | |
| She scrolled the offending image out of view. | |
| 9. v. (intransitive) To move in or out of view horizontally or vertically. | |
| The rising credits slowly scrolled off the screen. | |
| 10. v. (internet, intransitive) To flood a chat system with numerous lines of text, causing legitimate messages to scroll out of view before they can be read. | |
| Hey, stop scrolling! | |
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