Scroll vs Wander - What's the difference?
scroll | wander |
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.
(computing) To change one's view of data on a computer's display, typically using a scroll bar or a scroll wheel.
To move in or out of view horizontally or vertically.
(internet) To flood a chat system with numerous lines of text, causing legitimate messages to scroll out of view before they can be read.
* 1998 , "rOOth", Brain's chat'' (on newsgroup ''alt.music.queen )
(lb) To move without purpose or specified destination; often in search of livelihood.
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*(Bible), (w) xi.37:
*:They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins.
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*:“A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron;. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable, and from time to time squinting sideways, as usual, in the ever-renewed expectation that he might catch a glimpse of his stiff, retroussé moustache.
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*:There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.Stewards, carrying cabin trunks, swarm in the corridors. Passengers wander restlessly about or hurry, with futile energy, from place to place.
(lb) To stray; stray from one's course; err.
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*(Bible), (Psalms) cxix.10:
*:O, let me not wander from thy commandments.
(lb) To commit adultery.
(lb) To go somewhere indirectly or at varying speeds; to move in a curved path.
(lb) Of the mind, to lose focus or clarity of argument or attention.
As nouns the difference between scroll and wander
is that scroll is a roll of paper or parchment; a writing formed into a roll; a schedule; a list while wander is the act or instance of wandering.As verbs the difference between scroll and wander
is that 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 while wander is (lb) to move without purpose or specified destination; often in search of livelihood.scroll
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Alternative forms
* (l), (l), (l) (obsolete) * (l) (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)- She scrolled the offending image out of view.
- The rising credits slowly scrolled off the screen.
- Hey, stop scrolling !
- 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.