scroller

English

Etymology

From scroll +‎ -er.

Noun

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, →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

• side scroller

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English scroll.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /skʁɔ.le/

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Verb

scroller

1. (computing) to scroll

Conjugation

Conjugation of scroller (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	scroller
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	scrollant /skʁɔ.lɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		scrollé /skʁɔ.le/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	scrolle /skʁɔl/	scrolles /skʁɔl/	scrolle /skʁɔl/	scrollons /skʁɔ.lɔ̃/	scrollez /skʁɔ.le/	scrollent /skʁɔl/
	imperfect	scrollais /skʁɔ.lɛ/	scrollais /skʁɔ.lɛ/	scrollait /skʁɔ.lɛ/	scrollions /skʁɔ.ljɔ̃/	scrolliez /skʁɔ.lje/	scrollaient /skʁɔ.lɛ/
	past historic2	scrollai /skʁɔ.le/	scrollas /skʁɔ.la/	scrolla /skʁɔ.la/	scrollâmes /skʁɔ.lam/	scrollâtes /skʁɔ.lat/	scrollèrent /skʁɔ.lɛʁ/
	future	scrollerai /skʁɔl.ʁe/	scrolleras /skʁɔl.ʁa/	scrollera /skʁɔl.ʁa/	scrollerons /skʁɔl.ʁɔ̃/	scrollerez /skʁɔl.ʁe/	scrolleront /skʁɔl.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	scrollerais /skʁɔl.ʁɛ/	scrollerais /skʁɔl.ʁɛ/	scrollerait /skʁɔl.ʁɛ/	scrollerions /skʁɔ.lə.ʁjɔ̃/	scrolleriez /skʁɔ.lə.ʁje/	scrolleraient /skʁɔl.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	scrolle /skʁɔl/	scrolles /skʁɔl/	scrolle /skʁɔl/	scrollions /skʁɔ.ljɔ̃/	scrolliez /skʁɔ.lje/	scrollent /skʁɔl/
	imperfect2	scrollasse /skʁɔ.las/	scrollasses /skʁɔ.las/	scrollât /skʁɔ.la/	scrollassions /skʁɔ.la.sjɔ̃/	scrollassiez /skʁɔ.la.sje/	scrollassent /skʁɔ.las/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	scrolle /skʁɔl/	—	scrollons /skʁɔ.lɔ̃/	scrollez /skʁɔ.le/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).