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IC-159
DIGITAL BOOK
OXFORD
ENGLISH/ ARABIC
STUDENT’S
SPEAKING
DI CTIONARY
™
F
User’s Manual
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Contents
Key Guide ..................................................... 4
Installing the Digital Book.............................. 6
Changing the Language................................ 7
Viewing a Demonstration .............................. 8
Looking up English Words ............................ 9
Hearing English Words ................................. 11
Translating Arabic Words .............................. 13
Finding Phrases ............................................ 14
Finding English Inflections ............................ 15
Finding English Spellings .............................. 16
Highlighting Words in Definitions .................. 17
Playing the Games........................................ 18
Sending Words Between Books.................... 20
Digital Book System®.................................... 21
Specifications ................................................ 23
Limited Warranty ........................................... 24
✓ About the Screen Illustrations
Some screen illustrations in this User’s Manual
may vary slightly from what you see on screen.
These variations do not mean that this digital book
or your Digital Book System is malfunctioning.
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Introduction
The
Oxford English/Arabic Student’s Speaking Dic-
tionary
digital book provides a powerful, portable
new way for speakers of Arabic to learn English.
Using this digital book, you can look up English defi-
nitions by entering either Arabic or English words.
And you can view the menus and messages in either
Arabic or English.
Dictionary entries for English words include pronunciation and grammatical information, multiple definitions, and phrases showing how English words are
actually used.
In addition, you can actually hear the English words
in this dictionary pronounced aloud, as well as hear
English phrases and sentences.
Y ou can also find the inflections of English words,
check and find English spellings, and play entertaining games that build your knowledge of English.
✓ T yping Arabic Characters
• This digital book can be used in any Digital Book
System. The Digital Book System model
DBS-2-AB has an Arabic/English keyboard.
When using other Digital Book System models,
refer to the keyboard diagram in the Key Guide
of this manual to type Arabic characters.
• Keys not documented in the User’s Manual have
no effect in Digital Book System when you are
using this digital book.
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CLEAR
MENU
GAMES
MORE
LIST
SPEC
CARD
ON/OFF
Key Guide
Function Keys
Clear a search.
Display the main menus or Entry screen.
Display the games to select.
Display English phrases containing a word.
Display the inflection of an English word.
Hear an English word. (On the DBS-2D
SAY
keyboard,
function).
Exit the digital book.
Turn the Digital Book System on or off.
performs the same
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Key Guide
Other Keys
BACK
ENTER
Back up, erase a letter, or stop the highlight.
Enter a word or phrase, select a menu
item, or start the highlight in entries.
HELP
SHIFT
SPACE
? *
Display a help message.
Shift keys to type capital letters, etc.
Type a space.
At the Entry screen, type a question mark to
stand for a letter in word. At dictionary
entries, display the headword.
Direction Keys
Move in the indicated direction.
(At the Entry screen, accents a letter).
DN
SPACE
Page down or up.
UP
Page down in text.
Key Combinations*
or Go to the top or bottom of a menu,
entry, or list.
DN
Display the next or previous entry,
UP
phrase, or group of inflections.
CARD
SHIFT
Send a word to another digital book.
? *
At the Entry screen, type an asterisk to
stand for a series of letters in a word.
* Hold the first key while pressing the second.
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Installing the Digital Book
Y ou must install this digital book in the Digital Book
System before you can use and read it.
WARNING: Never install a digital book when the Digital Book System is on. If you do, information that you
have entered in any other installed digital book(s)
may be permanently erased.
1. Turn off the Digital Book System.
2. Install the digital book into a slot on the back.
3. Press
4. Turn the wheel on the side of the Digital Book
5. Press
6. Press
7. Press
ON/OFF
.
System to adjust its screen contrast.
If the screen is still blank, check the batteries.
CARD
.
or to highlight the appropriate
digital book icon.
The icon you see may vary.
ENTER
.
✓ Resuming Where You Left Off
While using this digital book, you can turn off the
Digital Book System at any time. When you turn
the Digital Book System on again, the screen that
you last viewed appears.
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Changing the Language
Y ou can use this digital book in Arabic or in English.
When you select
messages and other messages are in English.
NOTE: The examples in the English half of this User’s Manual use the
1. Press
2. Press
3. Press the arrow keys to highlight the menu
at the far right.
4. Highlight
English only
English only
CLEAR
.
MENU
to view the main menus.
English only
.
, menus, games, help
mode.
5. Press
ENTER
to select it.
✓ Follow the Arrows
The flashing arrows at the bottom of the screen
show which arrow keys you can press to view
more menu items or text.
✓ Learning English Phonetic Spellings
To learn about the phonetic spellings of English
words in this dictionary, select
Other menu. Then press
BACK
Press
to return to the main menus.
Pron info
from the
to view the spellings.
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Viewing a Demonstration
Before you start using this digital book, you may
want to view a demonstration of what it can do.
1. Press
2. Press
3. Highlight
CLEAR
MENU
.
.
Demo
on the Other menu.
4. Press
5. Press
ENTER
to start the demonstration.
CLEAR
to stop the demonstration.
✓ Setting the Shutoff Time
The shutoff time is how long the Digital Book System stays on if you forget to turn it off. To change
the shutoff time, highlight
menu and press
BACK
press
ENTER
.
Set Shutoff
on the Other
. Then select a new time or
✓ Help is at Hand
Y ou can view a help message at most screens by
pressing
the help. Press
main key functions are, select
Other menu.
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HELP
. Press or the DN key to read
BACK
to exit it. To learn what the
Overview
from the
Looking up English Words
The simplest way to find definition(s) of English words
and phrases is to enter them at the Entry screen.
CLEAR
1. Press
2. Type an English word or phrase.
.
To erase a letter, press
BACK
. Y ou don’t need to
type capitals, accents, or spaces.
ENTER
3. Press
4. Press , the DN key , or
5. Hold
.
SPACE
to scroll down.
and press the DN key to view the next
dictionary entry , alphabetically listed.
6. Press
CLEAR
when done.
✓ If You Misspell an English Word
When you enter a misspelled word at the Entry
screen, a list of corrections automatically appears.
Highlight a correction and then press
rections also appear when you enter a correctly
spelled word not found in this digital book.
ENTER
. Cor-
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Looking up English Words
✓ Typing Accents
You don’t need to type accents when you enter
English words such as
résumé
. However, if you
want accent a letter, first type the letter and then
press
(or
ACNT
on the DBS-2D) repeatedly
until the correct accent appears.
✓ Using the Entries Menu
Y ou can also scan the Entries menu to find English words. First, press
word. When the word you want is highlighted,
ENTER
press
to view its entry.
MENU
. Then start typing a
✓ Understanding Dictionary Entries
Each dictionary entry contains a wealth of information. The headword, or main word, is in boldface, followed by its phonetic spelling in slashes
(/ /). When a headword has more than one dictionary entry, its entry number is in superscript.
Grammatical information is presented in angle
brackets (< >). Phrases using the headword are
boldfaced. Usage examples are italicized. And
cross-references are in all capital letters.
✓ What Entry Am I Viewing?
At any line in a dictionary entry, you can press
to see the headword of that entry. You can also
? *
press
Entries menu.
to see a highlighted headword on the
? *
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Hearing English Words
This digital book can pronounce aloud English words,
phrases, and sentences when it’s installed in a Digital
Book System with a speaker or earphone jack. Please
note, however, that only English words appearing in
this dictionary can be pronounced. Try this example.
1. Press
2. Type a word (e.g.,
3. Press
4. Press
CLEAR
.
international
SPEC
to hear it.
ENTER
to view its dictionary entry.
).
5. Press
6. Press
highlight a word (e.g.,
7. Press
8. Press
SPEC
to hear the main word.
ENTER
and then the arrow keys to
nations
SPEC
to hear the highlighted word.
CLEAR
when done.
).
✓ Hearing Phrases and Sentences
You can hear many English phrases and sentences by typing them at the Entry screen and
pressing
SPEC
. For example, type
the fox jumped
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Hearing English Words
over the lazy dog
and then press
SPEC
.
When typing phrases and sentences, don’t type
apostrophes, commas, semicolons, colons, or periods. These punctuation marks will prevent pronunciation. (The exceptions are
Ms.
)
Mr., Mrs.
, and
Also, don’t type capital letters except at the start of
words. However, you can type and hear hyphenated words (e.g.,
age-old
).
✓ Hearing Multiple Pronunciations
When you type or enter a word that has more than
one pronunciation and then press
SPEC
, a screen
like the one below appears.
Highlight a word and then press
ENTER
or
SPEC
to
hear its pronunciation.
✓ More About Hearing Words
• You can hear English words in spelling correction
lists. Simply highlight a correction on the list and
then press
• You can’t hear words when inflections or games
are on screen.
SPEC
.
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T ranslating Arabic Words
Keywords are translations of English words appearing in this digital book. By entering an Arabic keyword, you can finds its English equivalent(s).
1. If you’re not at the main menus, press
2. Highlight the Keywords menu.
3. Type an Arabic word.
Usually you need to type only a few letters to
highlight the word you want.
4. Press
ENTER
.
5. Hold and press the DN key repeatedly
to view the next entries matching your keyword.
MENU
.
To view a previous entry, hold and press the
UP key.
BACK
6. Press
to go back to the menu.
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Finding Phrases
This digital book includes English phrases to help
you learn the idiomatic uses of words. It’s easy to
find phrases containing a certain word. Here’s how.
1. Press
2. Type an English word (e.g.,
3. Press
4. Highlight a phrase.
CLEAR
Or press
MORE
.
.
ENTER
and then press
run
).
MORE
.
5. Press
ENTER
.
6. Hold and press the DN key repeatedly
to view the next phrases containing the word.
7. Press
BACK
to go back to the phrases.
✓ Understanding sb and
sth
Many English phrases in this digital book contain
the abbreviations sb and
body
and
sth
stands for
sth. Sb
something
stands for
. Y ou can sub-
stitute appropriate nouns and pronouns for these.
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some-
Finding English Inflections
This digital book provides inflections of English
nouns, verbs, modifiers, and articles.
1. Press
2. Type a word (e.g.,
3. Press
CLEAR
LIST
.
be
).
.
4. Press , the DN key , or
LIST
5. Press
repeatedly to view more inflections.
SPACE
to scroll down.
Or hold and press the DN key.
6. Hold and press the UP key to view
a previous group of inflections.
✓ Viewing Multiple Parts of Speech
For some English words (e.g.,
press
LIST
you must select a part of speech before you can view inflections. To select a part of
speech, highlight one and then press
run
), when you
ENTER
✓ Getting Help With Inflections
To learn how and when to use inflections, press
HELP
while viewing inflections.
.
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Finding English Spellings
If you don’t know how to spell an English word, type
a question mark in place of each unknown letter or
an asterisk in place of a series of unknown letters.
1. Press
2. Type an English word with ?’s and ✻’s.
CLEAR
.
To type an asterisk, hold
3. Press
ENTER
.
SHIFT
and press
4. Highlight a matching word.
ENTER
5. Press
MORE
or
to view its definition(s)
to view its phrases, if any.
✓ Spelling Finding Tips
• Use question marks to find lists of words. For
example, to find four-letter words beginning with a
z
, enter
z???
.
• Use question marks to help solve crossword
puzzles and other word games. For example, if
the second letter of a five-letter word is
fourth letter is r, enter
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?l?r?
.
? *
l
and its
.
Highlighting Words in Definitions
To learn more about English words, you can highlight
a word in a definition and then find its definition(s),
inflections, and phrases, if any.
1. Press
2. Enter an English word (e.g.,
3. Press
4. Press
CLEAR
.
ENTER
to view its dictionary entry.
ENTER
again to start the highlight.
security
).
You can turn off the highlight by pressing
5. Press the arrow keys to highlight a word.
6. Press
view inflections, and
7. Press
ENTER
to view its dictionary entry,
BACK
to go back to the highlighted word.
MORE
to view phrases.
✓ Viewing Cross-References
In dictionary entries, words in all capital letters are
cross-references to specific definitions in other
entries. To view a cross-reference, highlight it as
you would any other word and then press
BACK
LIST
ENTER
.
to
.
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Playing the Games
Selecting Word Sizes and Games
To set the difficulty of the games, select
from the Other menu and then select a word size.
Game settings
To start playing, press
GAMES
and then select a game.
Hangman
In Hangman, you have a certain number of tries (#)
to guess the mystery word (
might be in the mystery word. If you are correct, letters appear in place of the corresponding question
mark.
To reveal a letter of the mystery word, hold
and press
round, press
? *
. To reveal the word and end the
? *
.
The score appears after each round. Press
continue, or press
Then press
ENTER
BACK
to select a new game or return
from a definition.
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?
). T ype letters you think
SHIFT
SPACE
to define the mystery word.
to
Playing the Games
Flashcards
Flashcards flashes words on the screen for you to
define or study. If you want to view the definitions of
the word, press
ENTER
. Press
Flashcards. If you do not want to find the definition,
SPACE
press
to continue viewing words.
Word T rain
All aboard the Word Train! You and the train take
turns typing letters to form a word. Whoever types
the last letter of the word wins.
To view the set of letters that you can type at a turn,
SHIFT
hold
and press
end the round, press
SPACE
Press
Then press
to continue or
BACK
? *
? *
to return to Word T rain.
BACK
to return to
™
. To reveal the word and
.
ENTER
for the definition.
✓ Getting Help With the Games
Y ou can read help messages about a game by
pressing
game, press
HELP
while playing it. To return to the
BACK
.
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Sending Words Between Books
This digital book can send and receive words to and
from certain other digital books. To learn if another
digital book can send and receive words, read its
User’s Manual.
NOTE: You must have more than one digital book installed in your Digital Book System before following
these steps.
1. Highlight a word in the sending digital book.
2. Press
3. Highlight another digital book symbol.
4. Press
ENTER
The word that you highlighted appears in the
initial screen of the receiving digital book.
5. Press
ENTER
The receiving digital book searches for the word.
If it is found, you can view text.
6. To return to the sending digital book,
press
symbol.
plus
.
again.
plus
CARD
.
CARD
and then select its
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Digital Book System
®
Resetting the Digital Book System
CLEAR
CLEAR
while
and then
To reset the Digital Book System, hold
pressing
ON/OFF
. Or press the recessed reset button
on the back of the Digital Book System. (Read its Basic Operating Guide for details.)
WARNING: Resetting the Digital Book System may
permanently erase information, such as notes, that
you have entered in the installed digital books.
NOTE: If the keyboard fails to respond or the screen
performs erratically, you can press
ON/OFF
press
rather than resetting the Digital Book
System. If nothing happens, then reset.
Protecting and Cleaning
• Do not touch the metal contacts on the back of digi-
tal books or the rubber contacts on the Digital Book
System with statically charged objects. Statically
charged objects may erase information that you entered in the digital books.
• Do not put excessive weight on digital books or the
Digital Book System or expose them to extreme or
prolonged heat, cold, or other adverse conditions.
• To clean digital books, apply isopropyl alcohol with
a cotton swab. To clean the Digital Book System,
apply a mild household cleaner with a soft cloth.
CAUTION: Spraying liquids on digital books or the
Digital Book System may damage them.
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Digital Book System
Replacing the Batteries
DBS-1 and DBS-2 models use four 3-volt, CR2032
lithium batteries. DBS-2D models use four 1.5-volt,
AA batteries.
1. Have new batteries ready.
2. T urn the Digital Book System off.
3. Slide the battery cover off the back.
4. Remove all the batteries.
5. Place new batteries in the cavities,
with their pluses oriented correctly.
In the DBS-1 and DBS-2, the pluses should face you.
6. Replace the battery cover.
✓ Battery Precautions
When you replace batteries, follow these precautions to avoid erasing information in any installed
digital books.
• Replace the batteries before they lose all power.
• Once batteries have been removed,
install new ones within two minutes.
• Do not mix old and new batteries.
• Never remove batteries while the Digital Book
System is on.
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Specifications
Model IC-159
• English headwords and phrases, and Arabic keywords
• AlphaSearch, word search, and Pick mode
• Phrase lists, English inflections, and grammar help
• English only and Arabic-English modes
• English pronunciation
• Accent input at Entry screen
• Adjustable message language & shutoff time
• SpellBlaster II™ automatic spelling correction and
MatchMaker™ letter-finding keys
• Games with word size settings
• Sending/receiving words to/from other digital books
• Context-sensitive help, overview, and self-demo
• Auto-resume feature
• Size: 2-1/4” x 1-1/4” x 1/4” • Weight: 0.3 oz.
Customer Service
If you have a problem with this digital book, refer to the limited warranty information. If you purchased this digital book
outside the United States, contact the place of purchase to
obtain warranty or repair information.
Copyrights, Trademarks, Patents, ISBN
© 1995 Franklin Electronic Publishers, Inc.
Burlington, N.J., 08016-4907 U.S.A. All rights reserved.
Oxford Student’s Dictionary of Current English/Arabic
© Oxford University Press, 1978, 1988.
© 1993 First Byte. All rights reserved.
Digital Book System is a registered trademark of Franklin.
Match-Maker, SpellBlaster II, and Word T rain are trademarks of Franklin.
U.S. Patents: 4,490,811; 4,830,618; 5,113,340; 5,218,536;
5,203,705; 5,229,936; DES 349,281; DES 348,439;
5,333,313; 5,396,606; 4,406,626; Euro. Pat. 0 136 379;
4,891,775; 5,295,070. Patents Pending.
ISBN: 1-56712-234-5.
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