scroller

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English

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Etymology

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From scroll +‎ -er.

Noun

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scroller (plural scrollers)

  1. One who, or that which, scrolls.
    • 2021, Bernadine Jones, Elections and TV News in South Africa: Desperately Seeking Depth, page 233:
      So, this final challenge is for the readers of stories, the watchers of television news, the scrollers of online media. Fund the journalism you want to see.
    • 2024 September 27, Georgina Lawton, “You be the judge: should my girlfriend stop scrolling on her phone while we’re watching TV?”, in The Guardian[1], →ISSN:
      My girlfriend Fran is a chronic scroller. She always seems to have her phone in her hand when we are watching something, or having a conversation.
  2. (demoscene) Synonym of scrolly (scrolling message)
    • 2005, Tamás Polgár, Freax: The Brief History of the Demoscene, volume 1, page 65:
      In fact there were already such scrollers before but as the creators told it in the scroller, they wrote this routine two years before releasing the demo []

Derived terms

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French

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English scroll.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /skʁɔ.le/
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Verb

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scroller

  1. (computing) to scroll

Conjugation

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