scroll
scrolls; scrolled; scrolling
A rolled up piece of paper is a scroll. If you write a poem on a sheet of paper, roll it up, and tie it with a ribbon, you can call it a scroll.
Before books existed, people wrote stories or important information on parchment or papyrus and rolled them into scrolls for easy storage and transport. Sometimes, a scroll would serve as a work of art, a decorated tale that would occasionally be unrolled and displayed. These days, when you scroll through something, you're probably reading it on a computer, moving down the screen.
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a document that can be rolled up (as for storage)
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synonyms:
roll
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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
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Megillah
(Judaism) the scroll of parchment that contains the biblical story of Esther; traditionally read in synagogues to celebrate Purim
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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
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holograph, manuscript
handwritten book or document
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Dead Sea scrolls
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a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals)
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corolla
(botany) the whorl of petals of a flower that collectively form an inner floral envelope or layer of the perianth
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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
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verticil
a whorl of leaves growing around a stem
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hull
persistent enlarged calyx at base of e.g. a strawberry or raspberry
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pappus
calyx composed of scales or bristles or featherlike hairs in plants of the Compositae such as thistles and dandelions
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round shape
a shape that is curved and without sharp angles
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move through text or graphics in order to display parts that do not fit on the screen“Scroll down to see the entire text”
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move
go or proceed from one point to another
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move
Vocabulary lists containing scroll
In 15th-century Korea, brothers Kee-sup and Young-sup impress the king with their ability to construct and fly kites.
In this mystery, middle-schoolers Calder and Petra get caught up in the search for a stolen painting by Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer.
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