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Electronic Publishers ™ User’ s Guide MWS-2018 Electronic Publishers Mt. Holly , NJ 08060 Cartr idge Dictionary & Thesaurus.
1 READ THIS LICENSE AGREEMENT BEFORE USING ANY BOOKMAN CARTRIDGE. YOUR USE OF THE BOOKMAN CARTRIDGE DEEMS THA T YOU ACCEPT THE TERMS OF THIS LICENSE. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH THESE TERMS, YOU MAY RETURN THIS P ACKAGE WITH PURCHASE RECEIPT TO THE DEALER FROM WHICH YOU PURCHASED THE BOOKMAN CAR- TRIDGE AND YOUR PURCHASE PRICE WILL BE REFUNDED.
2 Contents W elcome to the world of BOOKMAN! BOOKMAN is a powerful, portable elec- tronic reference with a built-in book and a slot in the back for more books. With this Dictionary & Thesaurus you can find and hear over 83,000 dictionary entries, and 41,000 thesaurus entries with 496,000 synonyms.
3 ➤ Understanding the Color Keys The color keys (r ed, gr een, yellow, and blue) perform the functions listed above only for the book described in this User ’ s Guide. Other BOOKMAN books have their own color key functions, which are labelled on their cartridges and listed in their User’ s Guides.
4 Warning: Never install or remove a cartridge when BOOKMAN is on. If you do, information that you entered in its built-in book, and in an installed cartridge, will be erased. 1. T ur n BOOKMAN off. 2. T ur n BOOKMAN over . 3. Align the tabs on the car - tridge with the notches in the slot.
5 Using the Color Keys The red, green, yellow , and blue keys on your BOOKMAN change functions ac- cording to which book is selected. When the built-in book is selected, the color keys function as labelled on the BOOKMAN keyboard. When a car- tridge book is selected, the color keys function as labelled on that cartridge.
6 ➤ Help is Always at Hand Y ou can view a help message at virtu- ally any screen by pressing HELP . Pr ess the direction keys to read it. T o exit help, press BACK or HELP . If you want to read an overview of this product and the key func- tions, highlight Tutorial on the Other menu and then press ENTER .
7 Finding Definitions It’ s easy to look up a word in the dic- tionary . Simply type it at the Entr y screen and press ENTER . T ry this ex- ample. 1. Press CLEAR . 2. T ype a wor d (e.g., knowl- edge ). T o erase a letter , press BACK . 3. Press ENTER .
8 Finding Synonyms When you see THES flash once in the upper right of the screen, that word has a thesaurus entry . 1. Press CLEAR . 2. T ype a wor d (e.g., splendid ). 3. Press THES (red). This is the first thesaurus entry . 4. Press to view synonyms.
9 ➤ Understanding Thesaurus Entries Thesaurus entries consist of thesaurus meanings and a synonym list. A thesaurus meaning is a definition shared by a list of synonyms. ➤ T wo W ays to Back Up Pressing BACK takes you back to the previous screen you viewed.
10 Finding Confusables ™ Confusables are words that sound alike, but are spelled dif fer ently . If a word has Confusables, a question mark will flash once in the upper right of the screen. 1. T ype a wor d (e.g., rein ). 2. Press ENTER . 3. Press ? ✻ .
11 The Path list lets you review the last 15 words you looked up. Your Path list is automatically saved between sessions until the batteries lose power. 1. Select V iew path list from the Other menu. This is a sample Path list. If you haven’t looked up any words, you see: Path is empty .
12 Using the User List Adding Highlighted W ords At any text, you can highlight a word and add it to your User list. 1. At text, press ENTER to start the highlight.
13 Y ou can delete one or all the wor ds in your User list. Here’ s how . Deleting One Word 1. Press LIST (blue). 2. Select Delete word . 3. Highlight a word on the list. 4. Press ENTER to delete it. 5. Press CLEAR when done. Erasing Y our User List 1.
14 Changing Game Settings Y ou can change the game settings at any time. Each setting applies to all the games. Word list lets you pick which words you’ll play the games with. If you se- lect Type Them in , you’ll need to type in words after you select a game.
15 Hangman Hangman challenges you to guess a mystery word, indicated by ?’ s, one letter at a time. The number of wrong guesses you can make appears to the right of the #’ s. For a hint hold CAP and press ? ✻ Or press ? ✻ to end the round. NOTE: If you ask for a hint, you will lose the round.
16 Cartridge Car e • Do not expose the cartridges to heat, cold, or liquids. • Do not put excessive pressur e on the cartridges. LBS. Resetting BOOKMAN If the BOOKMAN keyboard fails to re- spond, or if its screen performs errati- cally , first pr ess CLEAR and then press ON/OFF twice.
17 Model: MWS-2018 • size: 5.9 x 4.2 x 0.6 cm • weight: .4 oz. (without batteries) © 1987-1995 Franklin Electronic Publisher , Inc., Mt. Holly , NJ 08060 USA. All rights reserved. © 1989 Merriam-Webster , Inc. All rights reserved. BOOKMAN is a trademark of Sherwin M.
18 Index ?* key 3, 9, 15 Anagrams game 15 Asterisk key 3, 15 Asterisks 9 Auto-resume feature 4 Backing up 9 Changing Bookman's settings 6 Color keys understanding 3 using 5 Confusables, finding 1.
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