Ectaco Partner ER400 Professional User Manual
Summary of Partner ER400 Professional
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Ectaco ® partner ® er400 professional english russian professional talking electronic dictionary & phrasebook user manual.
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Ectaco partner ® er400 professional user manual 2 ectaco, inc. Assumes no responsibility for any damage or loss resulting from the use of this manual. Ectaco, inc. Assumes no responsibility for any loss or claims by third parties, which may arise through the use of this product. Ectaco, inc. Assumes...
Page 3: Contents
Ectaco partner ® er400 professional user manual 3 contents introduction.......................................................................................5 general view........................................................................................6 power supply.............................
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Ectaco partner ® er400 professional user manual 4 advanced search ...............................................................................20 russian keyboard mode ....................................................................20 key tone......................................................
Page 5: Introduction
Ectaco partner ® er400 professional user manual 5 introduction congratulations on purchasing the ectaco partner ® er400 professional! This product is the result of the combined efforts of ectaco's linguists, engineers, and programmers, and represents the last generation of the highest-performance in...
Page 6: General View
Ectaco partner ® er400 professional user manual 6 general view the general view and external features of the ectaco partner ® er400 professional are shown below. Power supply the ectaco partner ® er400 professional is powered by two aaa (lr03) batteries..
Page 7: Initialization
Ectaco partner ® er400 professional user manual 7 when the batteries become weak, a warning message will be displayed. In order to prevent excessively discharging the batteries and undergoing a resulting loss of data in ram, the say function will be disabled if battery power is low. To restore full ...
Page 8: Keyboard
Ectaco partner ® er400 professional user manual 8 after the system has been reset with the reset button. The reset button is located on the right-hand side of the keyboard (over the o key). It can be accessed with any thin object like a paper clip. Never use a needle or pin for this purpose since it...
Page 9: Function Shortcut Keys
Ectaco partner ® er400 professional user manual 9 unlike pc keyboards, there is no need to keep a key (such as shift) down while pressing another one. It is enough to press it only once and release. The available set of national characters is dependent on the selected keyboard mode. • use to switch ...
Page 10: Display
Ectaco partner ® er400 professional user manual 10 shift+ enter additional symbols 3 shift+exit switch to main menu display ectaco partner ® er400 professional features a high-resolution screen (160x64 pixels). The indicator line is at the top of the display and shows the following indicators: shift...
Page 11: Dictionary
Ectaco partner ® er400 professional user manual 11 popular idioms local and world time hangman word game setup dictionary ectaco partner ® er400 professional features 1,100,000-word english russian dictionary database including specialized vocabulary: business – 25,000 words, finance – 57,000 words,...
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Ectaco partner ® er400 professional user manual 12 meanings of certain words depend on the case of letters the word is written. For example, archer – Стрелец [астр.]; archer – стрелок из лука, лучник. Such words are shown in different entries. Parts of speech and gender labels translations of a head...
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Ectaco partner ® er400 professional user manual 13 mech. – mechanics med. – medicine opt. – optics pharm. – pharmacy physiol. – physiology psychol. – psychology stomat. – stomatology vet. – veterinary акуш. – obstetrics амер. – american анат. – anatomy арифм. – arithmetic арх. – archaic археол. – ar...
Page 14: Reverse Translation
Ectaco partner ® er400 professional user manual 14 reverse translation for your convenience, the ectaco partner ® er400 professional provides a reverse translation for all words and expressions in the dictionary. To obtain a reverse translation: press , to select a word or expression for the revers...
Page 15: Phrasebook
Ectaco partner ® er400 professional user manual 15 pronunciation of words and sentences the text-to-speech technology provides pronunciation of words and phrases for the english and russian languages in the dictionary. • display an entry. Use: to listen to the pronunciation of the headword; shift+ t...
Page 16: Irregular Verbs
Ectaco partner ® er400 professional user manual 16 • select a topic. Press enter to see its subtopics. • select a subtopic. Press enter to see the phrases. When viewing phrases: use u or t to scroll through the phrases; press to listen to the pronunciation of the phrase; use shift+ to listen to the ...
Page 17: Calculator
Ectaco partner ® er400 professional user manual 17 if you guess a letter correctly, it will appear in place of an asterisk in the word. • when playing, press enter to display the translation of the hidden word (which will count as one try). To hide the translation, press esc. • press the button to h...
Page 18: Conversion
Ectaco partner ® er400 professional user manual 18 you can specify or change the names of any of the currencies listed. New currencies may be added in place of ???. • change/specify the currency name. Press enter to open the next window. • specify an exchange rate relative to the basic currency (who...
Page 19: Setup
Ectaco partner ® er400 professional user manual 19 • to see information for another city, scroll through the alphabetic list by using , . • to see information for another city of the same country or switch to another country, scroll through the alphabetic list by pressing u, t. • also, you can quick...
Page 20: Advanced Search
Ectaco partner ® er400 professional user manual 20 advanced search if the advanced search mode is turned on, the headword closest in spelling to the portion you have entered so far will be displayed under the input line. Advanced search is on by default. Russian keyboard mode in this subsection, you...
Page 21: Date Format
Ectaco partner ® er400 professional user manual 21 this display shows the city and country names and the city's gmt offset. Refer to page 19 to learn how to find the desired country or city in the list. • when you find the desired city, press enter to save changes. Date format the month-day-year dat...