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Date "SCROLLING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1914. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Scrolling |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: SCROLLING |
| Specialty definitions using "SCROLLING": arrow key ♦ CAM position, configuration,administration and maintenance position, control,administration and maintenance position ♦ horizontal file scroll ♦ lateral file scroll ♦ Quick Tables ♦ rapid scroll, row scroll ♦ scroll bar, scroll in unison, sideways file scroll, synchronized scroll ♦ to freeze rows and columns ♦ vertical scrolling. (references) |
| "SCROLLING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 64.52% of the time. "SCROLLING" is used about 31 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 64.52% | 20 | 78,262 |
| Noun (singular) | 19.35% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 16.13% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 31 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "SCROLLING": page scrolling ♦ vertical scrolling. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "SCROLLING": eight-way-scrolling, ever-scrolling, free-scrolling, overhead-scrolling, sideways-scrolling. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "SCROLLING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 卷动. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | sidevis rulning (page scrolling, paging). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | verticaal schuiven (rolling, vertical scrolling), afrollen per pagina (page scrolling, paging). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | déroulement page par page (page scrolling), défilement vertical (vertical scrolling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Bildschirmverschieben, Bildschirm rollen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | 'ליל" (circuit, province, rolling, scroll). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | paginazione (page scrolling, paging). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 두루말기. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ollingscray перемещать прокрутка. (various references) smotuljak. (various references) desplazamiento por páginas (page scrolling, paging). (various references) bläddrande. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "SCROLLING": enscrolling, inscrolling. (additional references) | |
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"SCROLLING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: skroelings. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-g-i-l-l-n-o-r-s" | |
-1 letter: inscroll, rollings. | |
-2 letters: closing, collins, rolling, scoring. | |
-3 letters: clings, coigns, colins, corgis, coring, cosign, girons, grills, grison, groins, incogs, logics, losing, nicols, orcins, rosing, scroll, signor, soling, soring. | |
-4 letters: cions, cling, clogs, clons, coign, coils, coins, coirs, colin, corgi, corns, gills, girls, girns, giron, giros, grill, grins, groin, icons, incog, irons, lingo, lings, linos. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-g-i-l-l-n-o-r-s" | |
+2 letters: enscrolling, inscrolling. | |
+3 letters: ensorcelling. | |
+5 letters: cobelligerents, estrogenically, macroglobulins, organismically. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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