Franklin TCQ-200 User Manual
Electronic Publishers
Oxford
Children’s
Thesaurus
User’s Guide
TCQ-200
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Introduction
Congratulations! Y ou now own a powerful thesaurus that can be used at home or in
school. This
Oxford Children’s Thesaurus
will not only help you find over 55,000 thesaurus entries, but it will also help you learn
how to spell words, which contain synonyms,
related words, and references to other thesaurus entries.
In addition, the
Oxford Children’s Thesaurus
has a Personal word list in which you can save
up to 40 words for personal use or study. You
can even play four exciting games that will help
you learn while you have fun.
✓ Resuming Where Y ou Left Off
If you forget to turn this thesaurus off,
it will automatically shut off within two
minutes. To return to the last screen that
ON/OFF
you viewed, press
.
✓ How to Use Help
Y ou can learn what to do at any screen by
pressing
HELP
. If you press
HELP
ready screen, you will view helpful information describing how to use this thesaurus.
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at the
How to Use the Keys
BACK
CLEAR
ENTER
GAMES
HELP
LIST
NEXT
ON/OFF
PREV
?
✽
Backs up or erases letters.
Clears the word you entered.
Enters or selects a word, selects a
game, or scrolls help messages.
Shows the games.
Shows help messages.
Shows your Personal words list.
Shows the next thesaurus entry.
Turns your
Thesaurus
Oxford Children’s
on or off.
Shows the previous thesaurus entry .
Types a ? to stand for an unknown
letter in a word.
Types an
✽
to stand for a series of
unknown letters in a word.
Moves up a list, types an accent dark-
ens the screen at the ready screen.
Moves down a list or lightens the
screen at the ready screen.
Erases a letter or moves to the left.
Types a space or moves to the right.
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How to Begin
Here is how to start using your
Children’s Thesaurus
.
Oxford
1. T urn 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 on.
The thesaurus will turn on once the batteries
are inserted. A brief demonstration
begins once it is turned on.
5. Press
6. T o disable the demonstration, type
CLEAR
and press
to stop the demonstration.
✽✽
ENTER
.
Once the demonstration is disabled, the
demonstration will not begin each time you
turn the thesaurus on.
Type
✽✽
d
to re-enable the demonstration .
7. T o make the screen lighter or darker ,
press
for word
or several times at the
screen.
Ready
Y ou are now ready to begin using your
thesaurus. Go to the next page and begin.
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d
How to Find Thesaurus Entries
Each thesaurus entry can contain synonyms, related words, and references to other thesaurus
entries. Try this example.
CLEAR
1. Press
and type
happy
.
If you need to erase a letter, press or
Note: Y ou cannot type capital letters.
Some words in the thesaurus require a
space (
2. Press
Press or
3. Press
air force)
ENTER
. To type a space press .
to view its first thesaurus entry.
ENTER
to view the whole entry.
repeatedly to view all of the
synonyms that relate to the entry.
NEXT
4. Press
to go to the next thesaurus
entry of the word, if needed.
To view a previous thesaurus entry, press
PREV
.
5. Press
CLEAR
when you are finished.
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BACK
.
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