different between bookling vs scroll

English

Etymology

book +? -ling

Noun

bookling (plural booklings)

1. A short-length or compact book, typically under one hundred pages.
   • 1826, “Review of The Farmer, Grazier, and Corn Merchant’s Pocket Companion” in The Literary Gazette; and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, &c. for the Year 1826 (London: James Moyes, Bouverie Street), page 553

     A bit of a bookling of some thirty pages, but one of great utility, inasmuch as it contains Tables by which the value of cattle, grain, &c. &c., may be ascertained at a glance, with the utmost ease and near approach to extreme accuracy.

   • 1890, "The Lightness of Books and Their Form", The Bookmart, Volume 7, Number 82, March 1890:

     Then the proud, who love to see large octavos and duodecimos in vain bindings on their shelves, may have their fancy's fill, while to every sincere lover of literature shall be given his little light bookling, to be read abed, or lounged with in an easy-chair, or to be unpocketed for a taste of its sweetness in city car or cab, or upon still country by-paths.

English

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 *skr?da (“a shred”), from Proto-Germanic *skraud?, from *skrew- (“to cut; cutting tool”), extension of *(s)ker- (“to cut”). Doublet of shred and escrow.

Pronunciation

• enPR: skr?l, IPA^(key): /sk?o?l/
• Rhymes: -??l

Noun

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.
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.
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.

Translations

Verb

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

1. (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.

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

   The rising credits slowly scrolled off the screen.

3. (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!

   • 1998, "rOOth", Brain's chat (on newsgroup alt.music.queen)

     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^[sic] could read it cos it was going so fast - geez.

Descendants

• ? Danish: scrolle
• ? German: scrollen

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Anagrams

• Crolls

Spanish

Noun

scroll m (plural scrolls)

1. (computer games) scroll