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発音

• enPR: skrōl
  • (英国発音) IPA: /skɹəʊl/
  • (General American) IPA: /skɹoʊl/
  • (Indic) IPA: /skrol/, /skrɔ(w)l/
• 韻: -əʊl

名詞

scroll (plural scrolls)

1. A roll of paper or parchment; a writing formed into a roll.
2. (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. Spirals or sprays in the shape of an actual plant.
   • 1985, Peter Balakian, “The Oriental Rug”, in Robert Pack, Jay Parini, editors, Introspections: American poets on one of their own poems, Hanover and London: University Press of New England for Middlebury College Press, published 1997, →ISBN, page 31:

     I lose myself
     in a flawed henna plant
     jutting toward the scroll.
     Its rose-pink eyes burst
     
     off the stems.

4. 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.
5. (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.

   Synonym: fiddlehead

6. (geometry) A skew surface.
7. (cooking) A kind of sweet roll baked in a somewhat spiral shape.

   I ordered a glass of lemonade and a coffee scroll.

8. (computer graphics) The incremental movement of graphics on a screen, removing one portion to show the next.
   • 2005, Alberto de Lózar Muñoz, Liquid Crystal Dynamics: Defects, Walls and Gels, page 1:

     […] 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.

9. (hydraulics) A spiral waterway placed round a turbine to regulate the flow.
10. (anatomy) A turbinate bone.
11. (obsolete) A rough draft of anything.
12. (computing) The act of scrolling.

    I gave the terms and conditions a quick scroll before signing up to the website.

    • 2024 December 9, Siân Boyle, “Is doom scrolling really rotting our brains? The evidence is getting harder to ignore”, in The Guardian‎, archived from the original on 26 February 2026:

      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.

動詞

scroll (third-person singular simple present scrolls, present participle scrolling, simple past and past participle scrolled)

1. (ambitransitive, computing, graphical user interface) To change one's view of data on a computer's display by moving in gradual increments, typically using an input device or touch screen.

   Coordinate term: swipe

   She scrolled the offending image out of view.

   She kept scrolling until she found the desired paragraph.

   • 2008, “PDA”, in Cory in the House: Instruction Booklet, Burbank, California: Disney Interactive Studios; Nintendo, page 10:

     Use the stylus to scroll up and down the list or flip through the pages left and right.

2. (intransitive) To move in or out of view horizontally or vertically.

   The rising credits slowly scrolled off the screen.

   • 2017, Patricia Taxxon, “Player Piano”, in Black and White:

     The piano plays on. I watch those little rectangles as they scroll down from the top.

   • 2018, Darrin Doyle, Scoundrels Among Us: Stories:

     Pavement scrolled beneath the headlight beams, reminding Emma of a conveyor belt.

3. (intransitive) To continuously and aimlessly consume content on social media, especially on websites or apps with a scrolling feed, such as Instagram, TikTok, or X.
   • 2026 March 9, Cyrus Veyssi, “In Defense of Influencers”, in TIME‎, archived from the original on 14 March 2026:

     With millions of creators worldwide, many of whom are generating income through brand partnerships, affiliate deals, and platform monetization, influencers are likely popping up any time you pick up a phone to scroll.

4. (Internet, intransitive, dated) 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!

   • 1998, rOOth, “Brain's chat”, in alt.music.queen (Usenet):

     It's cool but i know why I prefer newsgroups : I just got banned for scrolling or summat : i was typing one word in each message so pppl could read it cos it was going so fast - geez.

   • 2003, Michael Newton, The Encyclopedia of High-tech Crime and Crime-fighting‎, AOL Riot on June 1, 1998, page 21:

     If you want to join this riot, we urge you to! You wont have to worry about being TOSed or reported because there will be no Guides online! So do whatever you want—punt, scroll, tos, just turn AOL into a war zone!

5. (obsolete, transitive) To draft; to write in rough outline.

派生した語

• → Danish: scrolle
• → German: scrollen
• → Icelandic: skrolla
• → Polish: scrollować
• → Russian: скро́ллить (skróllitʹ)

派生語

アナグラム

• Crolls