scroll
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5.2
- noun
- /skroʊl/
:
rollo
- The ancient scroll was carefully unrolled to reveal the lost texts inside.
- Dead Sea scrolls
- Torah scroll
- inscribed on the scroll
Gahanzam is this scroll that we, we chant to.
- Gahanzam is this scroll that we, we chant to.
- It's possible that some of the scrolls came with the refugees.
- One of them is ancient and the other one is a scroll from Pompeii.
- So for question three, please pick a scroll from the bowl.
- No, Adamus, I forbid you from using that scroll.
- Adams Skolnick, master of pen, scroll and word.
Examples
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I took along a Torah scroll and a shofar, and we entered the building.
Academic text (2013) -
The contestants are now working to decipher entire scrolls, and progress so far has been promising.
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The gypsy woman hands him a scroll with a number on it.
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- They must have the scroll of Osiris.
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You are to deliver this scroll to the Arhat living on the Jade Mountain.
Fiction book (1991) -
At its peak, it housed hundreds of thousands of scrolls, books, and manuscripts.
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Back to our topic, Papyrus scrolls could last a long time.
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An aura of mystery has surrounded the Dead Sea scrolls from 1947 onward.
Academic text (1994) -
Before Myrddin could reply, a messenger in Roman livery thrust a scroll at him insistently.
Fiction book (1991) -
Tamborel gazed around the room at shelves stacked with scrolls and fat books bound in leather.
Fiction book (1993)
Synonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
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7.3
A small electric saw with a thin blade for cutting detailed curves in wood or thin materials
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word scroll comes from an old word meaning 'roll' or 'to roll', because people used long sheets of paper or parchment that they would wind up. So, a scroll is literally a rolled-up page for writing.