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Word entry · 6 letters

scroll

Best crossword clue

"Move down a page"

6 letters · collected on this word page

6 lettersPronunciation /skɹəʊl/Part of speech verb, nounSorted cllorsStarts with SEnds with L2 cluesVery common crossword word
1S2C3R4O5L6L

Definitions

  1. move through text or graphics in order to display parts that do not fit on the screen

Word origin

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.

Used in a sentence

  • 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.

Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0

Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues

01Move down a page6 letters
02Move through a page6 letters

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