What's the difference between roll and scroll?

Roll


Definition:

  • (n.) To cause to revolve by turning over and over; to move by turning on an axis; to impel forward by causing to turn over and over on a supporting surface; as, to roll a wheel, a ball, or a barrel.
  • (n.) To wrap round on itself; to form into a spherical or cylindrical body by causing to turn over and over; as, to roll a sheet of paper; to roll parchment; to roll clay or putty into a ball.
  • (n.) To bind or involve by winding, as in a bandage; to inwrap; -- often with up; as, to roll up a parcel.
  • (n.) To drive or impel forward with an easy motion, as of rolling; as, a river rolls its waters to the ocean.
  • (n.) To utter copiously, esp. with sounding words; to utter with a deep sound; -- often with forth, or out; as, to roll forth some one's praises; to roll out sentences.
  • (n.) To press or level with a roller; to spread or form with a roll, roller, or rollers; as, to roll a field; to roll paste; to roll steel rails, etc.
  • (n.) To move, or cause to be moved, upon, or by means of, rollers or small wheels.
  • (n.) To beat with rapid, continuous strokes, as a drum; to sound a roll upon.
  • (n.) To apply (one line or surface) to another without slipping; to bring all the parts of (one line or surface) into successive contact with another, in suck manner that at every instant the parts that have been in contact are equal.
  • (n.) To turn over in one's mind; to revolve.
  • (v. i.) To move, as a curved object may, along a surface by rotation without sliding; to revolve upon an axis; to turn over and over; as, a ball or wheel rolls on the earth; a body rolls on an inclined plane.
  • (v. i.) To move on wheels; as, the carriage rolls along the street.
  • (v. i.) To be wound or formed into a cylinder or ball; as, the cloth rolls unevenly; the snow rolls well.
  • (v. i.) To fall or tumble; -- with over; as, a stream rolls over a precipice.
  • (v. i.) To perform a periodical revolution; to move onward as with a revolution; as, the rolling year; ages roll away.
  • (v. i.) To turn; to move circularly.
  • (v. i.) To move, as waves or billows, with alternate swell and depression.
  • (v. i.) To incline first to one side, then to the other; to rock; as, there is a great difference in ships about rolling; in a general semse, to be tossed about.
  • (v. i.) To turn over, or from side to side, while lying down; to wallow; as, a horse rolls.
  • (v. i.) To spread under a roller or rolling-pin; as, the paste rolls well.
  • (v. i.) To beat a drum with strokes so rapid that they can scarcely be distinguished by the ear.
  • (v. i.) To make a loud or heavy rumbling noise; as, the thunder rolls.
  • (v.) The act of rolling, or state of being rolled; as, the roll of a ball; the roll of waves.
  • (v.) That which rolls; a roller.
  • (v.) A heavy cylinder used to break clods.
  • (v.) One of a set of revolving cylinders, or rollers, between which metal is pressed, formed, or smoothed, as in a rolling mill; as, to pass rails through the rolls.
  • (v.) That which is rolled up; as, a roll of fat, of wool, paper, cloth, etc.
  • (v.) A document written on a piece of parchment, paper, or other materials which may be rolled up; a scroll.
  • (v.) Hence, an official or public document; a register; a record; also, a catalogue; a list.
  • (v.) A quantity of cloth wound into a cylindrical form; as, a roll of carpeting; a roll of ribbon.
  • (v.) A cylindrical twist of tobacco.
  • (v.) A kind of shortened raised biscuit or bread, often rolled or doubled upon itself.
  • (v.) The oscillating movement of a vessel from side to side, in sea way, as distinguished from the alternate rise and fall of bow and stern called pitching.
  • (v.) A heavy, reverberatory sound; as, the roll of cannon, or of thunder.
  • (v.) The uniform beating of a drum with strokes so rapid as scarcely to be distinguished by the ear.
  • (v.) Part; office; duty; role.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The adaptive filter processor was tested for retrospective identification of artifacts in 20 male volunteers who performed the following specific movements between epochs of quiet, supine breathing: raising arms and legs (slowly, quickly, once, and several times), sitting up, breathing deeply and rapidly, and rolling from a supine to a lateral decubitus position.
  • (2) More evil than Clocky , the alarm clock that rolls away when you reach out to silence it, or the Puzzle Alarm , which makes you complete a simple puzzle before it'll go quiet, the Money Shredding Alarm Clock methodically destroys your cash unless you rouse yourself.
  • (3) Speaking to pro-market thinktank Reform, Milburn called for “more competition” and said the shadow health team were making a “fundamental political misjudgment” by attempting to roll back policies he had overseen.
  • (4) Light microscopic histochemical procedures and morphological assessments were performed on sections of "Swiss rolls" of small and large intestine.
  • (5) Neither assertion was strictly accurate, but Obama was on a rhetorical roll.
  • (6) Under pressure from many backbenchers, he has tightened planning controls on windfarms and pledged to "roll back" green subsidies on bills, leading to fears of dwindling support for the renewables industry.
  • (7) Rolling-circle replicating structures which represent late stage lambda DNA replication can be detected among intracellular phage lambda DNA molecules under recombination deficient conditions as well as in wild-type infections.
  • (8) If this is the only issue, flight would be fine, but need to make sure that it isn’t symptomatic of a more significant upstream root cause.” Elon Musk (@elonmusk) Btw, 99% likely to be fine (closed loop TVC wd overcome error), but that 1% chance isn't worth rolling the dice.
  • (9) If such a system were rolled out nationally, central government could escape political pressure to ringfence NHS funding.
  • (10) It was also chided for failing to roll out a 2011 pilot scheme to put doors on fridges in its stores.
  • (11) I’ve warned Dave before to mind his ps and qs when the cameras are rolling, but the problem is you can never tell when the microphones are switched on.
  • (12) A commercial medical writing company is employed by a drug company to produce papers that can be rolled out in academic journals to build a brand message.
  • (13) Roll-up man 3.50pm GMT Thank you to Tom Skinner for this educational and informative video .
  • (14) flexion, stretch, rolling, startle, jumping (stepping), and writhing.
  • (15) The first problem facing Calderdale is sheep-rustling Happy Valley – filmed around Hebden Bridge, with its beautiful stone houses straight off the pages of the Guardian’s Lets Move To – may be filled with rolling hills and verdant pastures, but the reality of rural issues are harsh.
  • (16) In earlier studies with the SV40-transformed hamster cell line Elona two different types of DNA amplification could be identified: (i) Bidirectional overreplication of chromosomally integrated SV40 DNA expanding into the flanking cellular sequences ("onion skin" type) and (ii) highly efficient synthesis of extremely large head-to-tail concatemers containing exclusively SV40 DNA ("rolling circle" type).
  • (17) Trousers were cropped or rolled at the ankle, a styling trick that is emerging as a trend across the shows.
  • (18) During powder compaction on a Manesty Betapress, peak pressures, Pmax, are reached before the punches are vertically aligned with the centres of the upper and lower compression roll support pins.
  • (19) In 1995, Bill Gates, founder and CEO at Microsoft, reportedly paid The Rolling Stones $3m (£1.9m) for the rights to use Start Me Up to launch Windows 95.
  • (20) During flexion the lateral femoral condyle displays near extension pure rolling, near flexion pure gliding, on the medial side this ratio is vice versa.

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.