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Parchment vs Scroll - What's the difference?

parchment | scroll |

As nouns the difference between parchment and scroll

is that parchment is material, made from the polished skin of a calf, sheep, goat or other animal, used like paper for writing while scroll is a roll of paper or parchment; a writing formed into a roll; a schedule; a list.

As a verb scroll is

to change one's view of data on a computer's display, typically using a scroll bar or a scroll wheel.

parchment

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • material, made from the polished skin of a calf, sheep, goat or other animal, used like paper for writing.
  • *
  • *:At twilight in the summer there is never anybody to fear—man, woman, or cat—in the chambers and at that hour the mice come out. They do not eat parchment or foolscap or red tape, but they eat the luncheon crumbs.
  • A document made on such material.
  • A diploma (traditionally written on parchment).
  • Stiff paper imitating that material.
  • The creamy to tanned color of parchment.
  • The envelope of the coffee grains, inside the pulp.

    • Synonyms

    * bookfell * (paper) vegetal parchment, parchment paper, wax paper

    scroll

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l), (l), (l) (obsolete) * (l) (obsolete)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A roll of paper or parchment; a writing formed into a roll; a schedule; a list.
  • (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.
  • 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.
  • Scroll-shaped end of a violin.
  • (geometry) a skew surface.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (computing) To change one's view of data on a computer's display, typically using a scroll bar or a scroll wheel.
    • She scrolled the offending image out of view.
  • To move in or out of view horizontally or vertically.
    • The rising credits slowly scrolled off the screen.
  • (internet) 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.

    Derived terms

    * overscroll * scrollbar, scroll bar * scroll lock * scroll wheel * side scroller English ergative verbs