Franklin TCQ-200 User Manual

Electronic Publishers

Oxford

Children’s

Thesaurus

User’s Guide

TCQ-200

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Introduction

Congratulations! You 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 You 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 you viewed, press ON/OFF .

How to Use Help

You can learn what to do at any screen by pressing HELP . If you press HELP at the ready screen, you will view helpful information describing how to use this thesaurus.

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How to Use the Keys

BACK CLEAR ENTER

Backs up or erases letters.

Clears the word you entered.

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 your Oxford Children’s
	Thesaurus on or off.
PREV	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 darkens 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 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 on.

The thesaurus will turn on once the batteries are inserted. A brief demonstration

begins once it is turned on.

5.Press CLEAR to stop the demonstration.

6.To disable the demonstration, type d and press 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.To make the screen lighter or darker,

press or several times at the Ready for word screen.

You are now ready to begin using your thesaurus. Go to the next page and begin.

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How to Find Thesaurus Entries

Each thesaurus entry can contain synonyms, related 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 require a space (air force). To type a space press .

2.Press ENTER to view its first thesaurus entry.

Press or ENTER to view the whole entry.

3.Press repeatedly to view all of the synonyms that relate to the entry.

4.Press NEXT 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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