Ornamental scrollwork.
Used in a Sentence
scrolling
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for scrolling.
Editorial note
The crappy scrolling on the Mac is what keeps me away from Firefox.
Examples15
Definitions3
Parts of speech1
Quick take
Ornamental scrollwork.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of scrolling gathered in one view.
(Internet) Clipping of doomscrolling [(informal, neologism) The practice of continually reading Internet news about catastrophic events.]
(computing) The continuous movement of text or images on a display screen in either a horizontal or vertical direction.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for scrolling.
noun
Ornamental scrollwork.
noun
(Internet) Clipping of doomscrolling [(informal, neologism) The practice of continually reading Internet news about catastrophic events.]
noun
(computing) The continuous movement of text or images on a display screen in either a horizontal or vertical direction.
Example sentences
The crappy scrolling on the Mac is what keeps me away from Firefox.
Several MS videos show people scrolling though tiles on their phone so it is expected behavior.
Takes up more UI space, scrolling is slower than paging, takes more system resources.
Just write in the gray box instead of scrolling (per the help doc).
I'm just annoyed by the dumb parallax scrolling which covers up the title when you're trying to read it.
OP referred to it, and pointed out it has no momentum scrolling.
Since it's never actually scrolling the page, the toolbars don't change position.
The scrolling in Chrome annoys me by being all herky jerky.
We had to do a lot of the fancier map scrolling/etc.
I've just tried this out and it is indeed deeply cool, although the scrolling even on my 3GS is not quite native-like.
I suppose that just displaying a page and scrolling around it consumes little energy, with a short spike during the layout phase.
Don't let them pick and choose or require scrolling.
Quote examples
"The scrolling in Chrome annoys me by being all herky jerky." Call me shallow, but that's the biggest blocker for me.
Proper noun examples
Scrolling that page caused my Firefox to jump in memory size by about 1GB.
Scrolling is butter smooth, performance is perceived really good, the UI is minimal (I don't use bookmarks anymore), and handoff or pinching for a tab overview is great for me.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use scrolling in a sentence?
The crappy scrolling on the Mac is what keeps me away from Firefox.
What does scrolling mean?
Ornamental scrollwork.
What part of speech is scrolling?
scrolling is commonly used as noun.