What's the difference between lurk and scroll?

Lurk


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To lie hid; to lie in wait.
  • (v. i.) To keep out of sight.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Neither in nor out of the house, visible but not seen, you could lurk here for an hour undisturbed, you could loiter for a day.
  • (2) The team is trying to identify a number of fair-haired men, possibly Dutch or German nationals, who were seen lurking around the apartment where the little girl was last seen in Praia da Luz, Portugal, in 2007.
  • (3) Bundled up in the complex debt parcels lurked the venom which has poisoned the banks.
  • (4) If she has a cold, or a hangover, she can feel her anxiety lurking.
  • (5) Photograph: AFP Saint Laurent became an object of immediate fascination: quiet, timid, with neatly parted schoolboy hair, anxious eyes lurking behind thick glasses and a frail body encased in a tight black suit.
  • (6) They push forward again, Alonso making ground down the left, then whipping an excitable cross to the far post, where no yellow shirts lurk.
  • (7) Everton's opening goal was very nearly one for Arsenal as John Stones played a loose pass across his own area with Giroud lurking.
  • (8) A year ago, the prospects for successful climate change regulation were bright: a new US president promised positive re-engagement with the international community on the issue , civil society everywhere was enthusiastically mobilising to demand that world leaders "seal the deal" at Copenhagen, and the climate denial crowd had been reduced to an embarrassing rump lurking in the darker corners of the internet.
  • (9) Dangerous levels of private debt in China, bad debts lurking in Europe’s banking system, nervous consumers everywhere: it’s a nuclear device that needs careful handling.
  • (10) Lurking on the line, the Northern Ireland captain seemed to use his left arm to turn the ball past the post.
  • (11) Lurking in a petri dish in a laboratory in the Netherlands is an unlikely contender for the future of food.
  • (12) Here there are two problems – one glaringly apparent, the other lurking in the shadows.
  • (13) However, recent collaborative studies between psychiatrists and GPs have identified that within this dilute pool of minor disorders, lurks a significant but poorly served population of patients suffering from depressive disorders which are by no means minor in degree.
  • (14) That's the underlying risk that has been lurking, and could lurk in other bridges.
  • (15) Zoran Tosic, once of Manchester United, also found Musa, who turned the ball in to a lurking Georgi Milanov but the midfielder was unable to collect.
  • (16) At a lavish reception at the Museum der Bildenden Kunste, Rauch lurked in the shadows ("an artist's workshop should always be installed on the fringe"), while Lybke clambered onto the seat of a velvet chair and did a comic turn.
  • (17) Lee Kuan Yew’s grip on Singapore | Letters Read more Ethnic prejudice lurked just under Lee’s image of technocratic rationalism.
  • (18) That is the question that lurks, pulsing, beneath the slogans, the personalities, the big fight between Dave and Boris.
  • (19) Away from a largely house-price fuelled upturn in London and the south-east, another nation lurks behind the veneer of prosperity portrayed by senior ministers talking up recovery.
  • (20) Moreover, within the question of what provision goes where, lurk trapdoors.

Scroll


Definition:

  • (n.) A roll of paper or parchment; a writing formed into a roll; a schedule; a list.
  • (n.) An ornament formed of undulations giving off spirals or sprays, usually suggestive of plant form. Roman architectural ornament is largely of some scroll pattern.
  • (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.
  • (n.) Same as Skew surface. See under Skew.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Gone would be the system of semi-competition, of backroom bundles that force you to pay for channels and programming you wouldn't watch – even if it was the only thing available, like when you turn off the TV after a long, fruitless Netflix scroll.
  • (2) With commendable alacrity, meanwhile, the developers at art-game co-operative KOOPmode have already released a downloadable satire on how Facebook might work in 3D , graced with the irresistible tagline: "Scroll Facebook … with your face".
  • (3) Scrolling tabs in the tab bar Tighter integration with Mac Mail allows emailing directly from Safari using the recently sent to contact list 6.34pm BST Craig Federighi demonstrates the "simple and more powerful" design.
  • (4) Successive letters were scrolled in a horizontal direction at different speeds through a 'window'.
  • (5) The TPR values were closely correlated with subjective visual AR scores (r = 0.73), with AR scores derived by measuring the space between the ventral portion of the scroll and the floor of the nasal cavity (r = 0.72), and the actual size of this space in millimeters (r = 0.71).
  • (6) Fragments of Dead Sea Scroll Parchments were extracted for collagen and subjected to amino acid analysis.
  • (7) DNA Translator is able to convert documented GenBank or EMBL documented sequences into linearized, rescalable gene maps whose gene sequences are extractable by clicking on the corresponding map button or by selection from a scrolling list.
  • (8) An earlier version referred to a scrolling ticker on Qatari state television’s nightly newscast.
  • (9) They added to a growing list of big names already sidelined this season by one ailment or another, a scroll that includes Deron Williams, Stephen Curry, Steve Nash and Tyson Chandler.
  • (10) The highlights are below, scroll down for the full audio: On Thursday’s “bizarre” day in parliament: Leadership spills are unusual.
  • (11) It's actually easier doing that on the iPad than on a laptop – the scrolling works better.
  • (12) The Apple-Samsung case has so far lasted for four weeks, and the jurors are expected to deliberate for another week as they try to untangle the complex forms – in which they have to decide, among other things, whether any of 21 different Samsung tablets and smartphones infringed any of 10 different patents on functionality – such as the "rubber band" effect when trying to scroll past the top of a list – and whether the "trade dress" of Apple's products is sufficiently "famous" to merit protection.
  • (13) Interactive facilities include the ability, to scroll through the sequences, to rotate the structure and to connect the examination of the sequences and the structure by selecting a portion of the sequences and automatically highlighting the corresponding region in the structure and vice versa.
  • (14) Data are displayed taking advantage of such features of these terminals as reverse video, highlighting, and scroll windowing.
  • (15) From Nic Philps to Dave Barber: The first hour of the programme is here [hyperlink] Scroll through to the phone call at 52 mins in.
  • (16) For a list of 21 smartphones and tablets, has Apple shown that Samsung infringed the '381 patent (covering "bounce-back" when scrolling to the end of a list)?
  • (17) The mean diameter of the individual subunit ('scroll') inside the secretory granule was 88.8 nm for both normal and asthmatic lung.
  • (18) Cat videos aside, there’s an unspoken war going on Take a scroll through your Facebook feed.
  • (19) However, scroll formation, characteristic of mast cell granules, was not observed in cells grown in semisolid and liquid culture.
  • (20) The following advantages are notable: (1) the anatomic area of interest can be located first with the conventional real-time two-dimensional mode, then switched to reveal three-dimensional images, instantly; (2) three images are exhibited concurrently; (3) each of the three images can be arrayed separately and scrolled to search for the area of interest within the scanned volume; (4) the three-dimensional ultrasonography can be equipped with Doppler color flow mapping for the study of the fetal cardiovascular system.