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Scroll vs Scrollback - What's the difference?

scroll | scrollback |

As nouns the difference between scroll and scrollback

is that scroll is a roll of paper or parchment; a writing formed into a roll; a schedule; a list while scrollback is (computing) the part of a scrolling display that precedes the current line or section.

As a verb scroll

is (computing|transitive) to change one's view of data on a computer's display, typically using a scroll bar or a scroll wheel.

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

    scrollback

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (computing) The part of a scrolling display that precedes the current line or section.
  • * 1993 , InfoWorld magazine (volume 15, number 15, April 1993)
    • The program can hold as many as 5000 lines of a session in a scrollback buffer.
  • * 1995 , Charles Rubin, The Macintosh bible guide to ClarisWorks 4
    • New communications documents are set for a scrollback area of unlimited size...
  • * 2005 , Dave Taylor, Learning UNIX for Mac OS X Tiger
    • The scrollback buffer allows you to scroll back and review earlier commands and command output.

    Synonyms

    * backscroll

    Anagrams

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