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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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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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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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How to Find Thesaurus Entries
✓ 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. Y ou can
also access this list by pressing ✽ and
ENTER
pressing
.
A flashing T to the right of a word indicates
that a word has one or more thesaurus
entries. Press
ENTER
to view any thesaurus
entries. A flashing question mark to the right
of a word indicates that a word has Confusables. See “How to Find Confusables for
?
more information. Press
Confusables. Press
to view any
CLEAR
when you are
finished.
✓ Accenting Letters
Y ou do not need to type accents in your
words. But if you want to type an accent, first
type the letter to be accented. Then press
or until you see the accent you want.
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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.
wood
ENTER
.
.
1. Type
2. Press
The ? indicates that the word has Confusables.
?
3. Press
.
4. Press to view more Confusables.
5. Press
CLEAR
when you are finished.
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How to Correct Misspellings
The
Oxford Children’s Thesaurus
prove your spelling by helping you to correct
your misspelled words. Here’s how.
garaffe
1. Type
.
can im-
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 the desired
word, if necessary
4. If a flashing T appears, press
ENTER
to see
one or more thesaurus entries for that
word.
5. Press to view the words in this
thesaurus entry .
6. Press
CLEAR
when you are finished.
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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 unknown 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
2. Press ?.
3. Type
p
.
rt
.
4. Press
ENTER
.
The matching words appear in alphabetical
order.
ENTER
5. If a flashing T appears, press
to see one
or more thesaurus entries for that word.
6. Press
7. Press
to view more matching words.
ENTER
to view the thesaurus entry
of a matching word, if available.
CLEAR
8. Press
when you are finished.
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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 example.
penc
1. T ype
2. Press
An asterisk will appear at the end of the
word
3. Press
You can type both question marks and
asterisks in a word, but there is no reason to
type them next to each other.
4. If a flashing T appears, press
or more thesaurus entries for that word.
5. Press
that begin with
6. Press
for a matching word, if any .
7. Press
.
✽
.
penc
✽
.
ENTER
.
ENTER
to see one
many times to view more words
penc
.
ENTER
to view the thesaurus entry
CLEAR
when you are finished.
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How to Save Words
Y ou can save up to 40 words in your Personal
words list. Y our 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
2. Press
then press
purpose
until
ENTER
and press
Add To List
.
If you try to add a word that has already
been saved to your Personal words list,
Already in list
If the screen says
appears.
Not a word
is not found in this thesaurus. To add such a
word to your Personal words list, press
N
Press
if you do not want to add the word.
When these words are added, a
appear to the right of the word to indicate
that the word is not in this thesaurus.
3. Press
CLEAR
when you are finished.
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LIST
.
appears, and
, then the word
P
will
Y
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How to View Y our Saved Words
After you have saved words to your Personal
words list, you can then review them.
LIST
1. Press
2. Press
Words are shown in the order they were
saved.
3. Press
4. Press
✓ Deleting a Saved Word
T o delete a saved word from your Personal
words list, first press
view
Use
to delete and then press
when you are finished.
✓ Clearing Y our Personal List
T o delete all of the words from your Personal
words list, first press
move to
Y
to clear your list. Press N to cancel.
.
ENTER
to select
View List
.
and to view the words in the list.
CLEAR
when you are finished.
LIST
. Then press to
Delete From List
and then press
and to move to the word you want
ENTER
. Press
LIST
Erase List
. Next, press to
and then press
ENTER
. Press
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ENTER
CLEAR
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Changing the Game Settings
You can select the skill level for the games
and the words with which you will play the
games, before you play.
•
Skill Level
difficulty for the games. There are five skill
levels;
is the hardest.
•
Game Words
list or your Personal words list is used in
the games. Also, you can choose to enter
your own words before each round.
1. Press
2. Press
Game Words
3. Press
then press
You will then return to the Games menu.
allows you to change the level of
Beginner
is the easiest and
determines whether the main
GAMES
.
or to move to
and then press
Skill Level
ENTER
or to move to a setting and
ENTER
.
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Wizard
or
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How to Play the Games
This thesaurus has four word games that
you can play .
Hangman
Hangman challenges you to guess a mystery word, indicated by ?’s, by typing its letters one at a time.
GAMES
1. Press
2. Press
then press
An unknown word appears with the number
of guesses remaining at the right.
3. T ype a letter .
Either a question mark will be replaced by
the letter or the number of guesses will be
reduced by one.
4. T o reveal a letter press
5. T o end the round and show the mystery
word press
6. If a flashing T appears, press
one or more thesaurus entries for that
word, once the round is over.
7. Press to play another round.
8.
Press
.
or to move to
ENTER
.
?
.
CLEAR
when you are finished.
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Hangman
✽
.
ENTER
and
to see
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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.
GAMES
1. Press
2. Press or to move to
then press
A word appears with the number of possible
anagrams at the right.
3. Type an anagram and then press
4. To view the anagrams that you have
already entered press .
5. T o jumble the letters press
6. To end the round and show all of the
anagrams press
7. Press
anagrams.
8. If a flashing T appears, press
one or more thesaurus entries for that
word, once the round is over.
9. Press
.
ENTER
.
Anagrams
✽
?
.
and
ENTER
.
or to see all of the possible
ENTER
to see
play another round.
.
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How to Play the Games
10. Press
CLEAR
when you are finished.
Jumble
In Jumble, you have to decipher jumbled letters to form one or more correctly spelled
words.
GAMES
1. Press
2. Press
then press
3. T ype an unscrambled word.
If word is correct,
word is displayed. If the word is incorrect,
No, try again
again.
4. T o jumble the letters press
5. T o end the round and unscramble the
word press
6. If a flashing T appears, press
one or more thesaurus entries for that
word, once the round is over.
.
or to move to
ENTER
.
You win!!
Jumble
appears and the
appears, and you can to try
ENTER
?
.
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ENTER
and
.
to see
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How to Play the Games
7. Press to play another round.
8. Press
CLEAR
when you are finished.
Flashcards
This is an electronic flashcards game. Flashcards flashes words that you can study and
then you can find their thesaurus entries.
GAMES
1. Press
2. Press
press
3. Study the word that appears.
4. If a flashing T appears, press
one or more thesaurus entries for that
word, once the round is over.
?
If a
Confusables.
5. Press
.
to move to
ENTER
.
Flashcards
ENTER
flashes, then press ? to view
to view a new word.
and then
to see
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Appendix
Model TCQ-200 •
• 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
T o clean this product, spray a mild glass cleaner onto a cloth and
wipe its surface. Do not spray liquids directly on this product. Do
not use or store this product in extreme or prolonged, heat, cold,
humidity, or other adverse conditions. If you have a problem with
your this product refer to the warranty. If you purchased it outside
the United States, contact the place of purchase to obtain warranty
or repair information.
FCC Notice
Complies with the limits for a Class B computing device pursuant
to Subpart B of Part 15 of FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the
following two conditions (1) This device may not cause harmful
interference; and (2) This device must accept any interference
received, including interference that may cause undesirable
operation.
Copyrights, Trademarks, Patents, and ISBN
© 1996 Franklin Electronic Publishers, Inc.
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Produced under license from Oxford University Press.
© 1987 Oxford University Press. All Rights reserved.
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EURO. PA T. 0 136 379 PA T . PEND.
ISBN 1-56712-328-7
This unit may change operating modes due to Electrostatic Discharge. Normal operation of this unit can be
re-established by pressing the reset key,
removing/replacing batteries.
Oxford Children’s Thesarus
ON/OFF
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