Franklin TCQ-200 User Manual

Manual is about: Oxford Children's Thesaurus

Summary of TCQ-200

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    1 electronic publishers oxford children’s thesaurus user’s guide tcq-200 manual.Tcq-200 9/18/02, 10:04 am 1.

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    2 read this license agreement before using the electronic reference. Your use of the electronic reference deems that you accept the terms of this license. If you do not agree with these terms, you may return this package with purchase receipt to the dealer from which you purchased the electronic ref...

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    3 introduction congratulations! You now own a powerful the- saurus that can be used at home or in school. This oxford children’s thesaurus ™ will not only help you find over 55,000 the- saurus entries, but it will also help you learn how to spell words, which contain synonyms, related words, and ref...

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    4 how to use the keys back backs up or erases letters. Clear clears the word you entered. Enter enters or selects a word, selects a game, or scrolls help messages. Games shows the games. Help shows help messages. List shows your personal words list. Next shows the next thesaurus entry. On/off turns ...

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    5 here is how to start using your oxford children’s thesaurus . 1. Turn your thesaurus over. 2. Remove its battery cover. 3. Insert four lr03 batteries (aaa batteries) into the battery compartment. Use the battery diagram in the battery compartment to insert batteries. 4. Put the battery cover back ...

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    6 how to find thesaurus entries each thesaurus entry can contain synonyms, re- lated words, and references to other thesaurus entries. Try this example. 1. Press clear and type happy . If you need to erase a letter, press or back . Note: you cannot type capital letters. Some words in the thesaurus r...

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    7 ✓ words without thesaurus entries if a word does not have any thesaurus entries, then its correct spelling appears in the word list. The word list contains all of the words that are found in this thesaurus. Use or to move through this list. You can also access this list by pressing ✽ and pressing ...

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    8 how to find confusables ® confusables are words that sound alike, are often confused, or are spelled similarly. When you see a question mark flash at the right of the screen, the entered or selected word has two or more confusables. Try this example. 1. Type wood . 2. Press enter . The ? Indicates...

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    9 the oxford children’s thesaurus can im- prove your spelling by helping you to correct your misspelled words. Here’s how. 1. Type garaffe . Press or back if you need to erase a letter. 2. Press enter . The flashing t indicates that a word has one or more thesaurus entries. 3. Press or until you see...

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    10 how to find a letter if you are not sure how to spell a word, you can type a question mark in place of each un- known letter. To type a question mark, press ? . You can also type question marks in words to help solve crossword puzzles and similar word games. 1. Type p . 2. Press ? . 3. Type rt . ...

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    11 how to find a series of letters to find a series of letters, press ✽ to type an asterisk in a word. An asterisk stands for a series of letters in a word. Try this ex- ample. 1. Type penc . 2. Press ✽ . An asterisk will appear at the end of the word penc ✽ . 3. Press enter . You can type both ques...

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    12 how to save words you can save up to 40 words in your personal words list. Your personal words list is where you can save words for study and review. The list will be saved until you erase it or replace the batteries. 1. Type purpose and press list . 2. Press until add to list appears, and then p...

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    13 how to view your saved words after you have saved words to your personal words list, you can then review them. 1. Press list . 2. Press enter to select view list . Words are shown in the order they were saved. 3. Press and to view the words in the list. 4. Press clear when you are finished. ✓ del...

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    14 you can select the skill level for the games and the words with which you will play the games, before you play. • skill level allows you to change the level of difficulty for the games. There are five skill levels; beginner is the easiest and wizard is the hardest. • game words determines whether...

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    15 how to play the games this thesaurus has four word games that you can play. Hangman hangman challenges you to guess a mys- tery word, indicated by ?’s, by typing its let- ters one at a time. 1. Press games . 2. Press or to move to hangman and then press enter . An unknown word appears with the nu...

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    16 how to play the games anagrams anagrams challenges you to find all of the words that can be made from the letters of a given word. Each letter can only be used as many times as it appears in the given word. The minimum word size will appear on the screen before each round begins. 1. Press games ....

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    17 10. Press clear when you are finished. Jumble in jumble, you have to decipher jumbled let- ters to form one or more correctly spelled words. 1. Press games . 2. Press or to move to jumble and then press enter . 3. Type an unscrambled word. If word is correct, you win!! Appears and the word is dis...

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    18 7. Press to play another round. 8. Press clear when you are finished. Flashcards this is an electronic flashcards game. Flash- cards flashes words that you can study and then you can find their thesaurus entries. 1. Press games . 2. Press to move to flashcards and then press enter . 3. Study the ...

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    19 appendix model tcq-200 • oxford children’s thesarus • battery: 4 lr03 (aaa) batteries (not included) • size: 13.6 x 9.2 x 2.0 cm. • weight: 6.8 oz cleaning and customer service to clean this product, spray a mild glass cleaner onto a cloth and wipe its surface. Do not spray liquids directly on th...

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    20 limited warranty (u.S. Only) franklin electronic publishers, inc. (“franklin”) warrants to the end user that this product will be free from defects in material and workmanship for a period of one year from the date of original retail purchase, as evidenced by sales receipt. On discovery of a defe...