Franklin BOOKMAN COL-2010, User Manual

Page 1: ... Electronic Publishers User s Guide COL 2010 Electronic Publishers CARTRIDGE 10THEDITION COLLEGIATE DICTIONARY s www franklin com ...

Page 2: ...Installing Cartridges to learn how Welcome to the world of BOOKMAN This Merriam Webster s Collegiate Dic tionary Tenth Edition has over 500 000 definitions including biographical and geographical names The list of tables contains useful information on subjects such as world moneys chemical ele ments and more You can find a word s inflected forms at the touch of a key and Using BOOKMAN 3 Using this...

Page 3: ...F Turns BOOKMAN on or off Other Keys BACK Backs up erases letters or stops a highlight CAP Shifts keys ENTER Enters a search selects a menu item or starts a highlight HELP Shows a help message SPACE Types a space or pages down Types a to stand for an unknown letter in a word shifted types an to stand for a series of unknown letters Hold while pressing the other key Understanding the Color Keys The...

Page 4: ...ook you want to use It explains how to adjust the screen con trast type size and the automatic shut off time You can watch an automatic demon stration of the main features of this dic tionary and learn how to get help at the touch of a key Installing Batteries 4 Installing Cartridges 4 Selecting Books 5 Using the Color Keys 5 Changing Settings 6 Viewing a Demonstration 6 ...

Page 5: ...o place Selecting Books Once you have installed a book car tridge in your BOOKMAN you must select which book you want to use 1 Turn BOOKMAN on 2 Press CARD These are sample books 3 Press or to highlight the book you want to use 4 Press ENTER to select it Resuming Where You Left Off You can turn off BOOKMAN at any screen When you turn BOOKMAN on again the screen that you last viewed appears Removin...

Page 6: ...idges function as labelled on their cartridges not as on the keyboard Changing Settings You can adjust the font size shutoff time and screen contrast The font size changes the number of lines of text that appear on screen The shut off time is how long BOOKMAN stays on if you forget to turn it off 1 Press MENU 2 Press or to highlight the Setup menu 3 Highlight Change Font Set Shutoff or Set Contras...

Page 7: ...tration press CLEAR at any time Viewing a Demonstration Help is Always at Hand You can view a help message at virtually any screen by pressing HELP Use the direction keys to read it To exit help press BACK If you d like to read an overview of how this dictionary works and what the keys do highlight Tutorial under the Setup menu and press ENTER Press CLEAR when done Follow the Arrows The flashing a...

Page 8: ...them at the en try screen the word list or by highlight ing a word within a definition You can alsolearnhowtocorrectmisspellingsand how to find phrases or words when you only know how to spell part of it You can use the Inflection Guide and go to a list of the tables at the touch of a key You can add words to your User list and play five educational word games using your choice of settings to help...

Page 9: ...nderstanding Definitions The main word at the top of the dictionary entry is called the headword The headword is followed by the part of speech the approximate date of its origin and then its definition After the definition you may see usage examples and other forms of the word The asterisk in a geographical definition denotes that location is the capital city For the list of abbreviations in defi...

Page 10: ... 4 Press ENTER to go to the high lighted word s definition 5 Press BACK to go back to the word list 6 Press CLEAR when done Choosing Multiple Forms There are so many definitions in this dictionary it is not uncommon for a word to have more than one form When the word you are looking up has multiple forms the different forms ap pear listed on the screen Simply se lect the form you want 1 Press CLEA...

Page 11: ... the following To Press define the word ENTER view its inflections INFL add it to the User list LIST go back a screen BACK If you misspell a word don t worry You will go to a list of corrections 1 Type a misspelled word 2 Press ENTER This is the list of corrections 3 Press to highlight a correction 4 Press ENTER to view its dictio nary entry if needed To go back to the correction list press BACK 5...

Page 12: ...k hold CAP and press 2 Press ENTER 3 Press to scroll down the list of matches 4 Select the match you want Finding Letters in Words If you are uncertain about the spelling of a word type a question mark in place of each unknown letter Use the asterisk to find prefixes suffixes and other parts of words Each asterisk stands for any number of letters NOTE If you type an aster isk at the beginning of a...

Page 13: ...FL to move through the other verb forms To go to a previous verb form hold and press UP 5 Press CLEAR when done This dictionary includes tables that con tain useful information on topics such as chemical elements geologic time world moneys and more Here s how to find them 1 Press CLEAR 2 Press TABLES 3 Press to highlight a table Or type the name of the table at the list if you know it 4 Press ENTE...

Page 14: ...he list 3 Press Y to erase the entire list Or press N to cancel Using the User List Using the User List You can create a User List of up to 20 words Use it to study word lists or use it as a placeholder for quick ac cess to the added words Words are listed in the order they are entered not alphabetically Only words in this dictionary can be added to the User list Adding a Word 1 Press LIST to go t...

Page 15: ...u will play the games with by selecting Game Skill Levels from the Games list The skill level you choose will pertain to all the games 1 Press GAMES 2 Press ENTER to select Game Skill Levels 3 Select a skill level The check mark shows the selected item 4 Press GAMES to return to the Games menu Keeping Score Your score appears after each round of Hangman Jumble and Anagrams until you change games o...

Page 16: ...E Jumble Jumble shuffles the letters of a mystery word You must unscramble all the letters to form a word The number of words that can be formed appears to the right of the letters Type your guess and then press ENTER To shuffle the letters hold CAP and press The difficulty of the word is determined by the skill level To quit and see the answer press When there is more than one word highlight a wo...

Page 17: ...p the word if needed Type an anagram and then press ENTER Use the arrow keys to view anagrams you ve already entered Hold CAP and press to shuffle the letters of the given word Press to end a round and reveal the remaining anagrams Highlight a word and then press ENTER to see its dictionary definition Press BACK to exit Anagrams Word Builder Word Builder takes letters you ve typed and shuffles the...

Page 18: ... Collegiate Dic tionary Tenth Edition These abbrevia tions will appear in most dictionary entries You will also learn how to care for BOOKMAN cartridges and how to troubleshoot and reset BOOKMAN if needed Appendices Abbreviations in This Work 18 Cartridge Care 22 Resetting BOOKMAN 22 Limited Warranty 23 Copyrights Patents 23 Index 24 ...

Page 19: ...t Arm Armenian art article astron astronomer astronomy attrib attributive attributively atty attorney aug augmentative Austral Australian Av Avestan AV Authorized Version b born bacteriol bacteriologist B C before Christ British Columbia bef before Belg Belgian Beng Bengali bet between bib biblical biochem biochemist biol biologist Braz Brazilian BrazPg Brazilian Portuguese Bret Breton Brit Britai...

Page 20: ...French fem feminine Finn Finnish fl flourished Flem Flemish fr from Fr France French freq frequentative Fris Frisian ft feet fut future G German Gael Gaelic gen general genitive Ger German Gk Greek Gmc Germanic Goth Gothic gov governor govt government Gr Brit Great Britain Heb Hebrew hist historian Hitt Hittite Hung Hungarian Icel Icelandic IE Indo European imit imitative imper imperative incho in...

Page 21: ... noun N north northern naut nautical NE northeast neut neuter NewEng New England NewZeal New Zealand NGk New Greek NHeb New Hebrew NL New Latin No North nom nominative nonstand nonstandard Norw Norwegian nov novelist n pl noun plural NZ New Zealand obs obsolete occas occasionally OCS Old Church Slavonic OE Old English OF Old French OFris Old Frisian OHG Old High German OIr Old Irish OIt Old Italia...

Page 22: ... Scandinavian ScGael Scottish Gaelic Sch School Scot Scotland Scottish secy secretary Sem Seminary Semitic Shak Shakespeare sing singular Skt Sanskrit Slav Slavic So South SoAfr South Africa South African sociol sociologist Sp Span Spanish specif specifically spp species St Saint Ste Sainte subj subjunctive subsp subspecies substand substandard superl superlative Sw Swed Swedish syn synonym synony...

Page 23: ...st press CLEAR and then press ON OFF twice If nothing happens follow the steps below to reset it Warning Pressing the reset button with more than very light pressure may permanently disable your BOOKMAN Inaddition resettingBOOKMANerases settings and information entered into its built inbook andinaninstalledcartridge 1 Hold CLEAR and press ON OFF If nothing happens try Step 2 2 Use a paperclip to g...

Page 24: ...ed by or for FRANKLIN Batteries corrosion or battery contacts and any damage caused by batteries are not covered by this warranty NO FRANKLIN DEALER AGENT OR EMPLOYEE IS AUTHORIZED TO MAKE ANY ADDITIONAL WARRANTY IN THIS REGARD OR TO MAKE ANY MODIFICATION OR EXTENSION OF THIS EXPRESS WARRANTY THE FOREGOING WARRANTY IS EXCLUSIVE AND IS IN LIEU OF ALL OTHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES WRITTEN OR O...

Page 25: ...llowing two conditions 1 This device may not cause harmful interfer ence and 2 This device must accept any interference received including interference that may cause undesired operation U S Patents 4 490 811 4 830 618 4 891 775 5 007 019 5 113 340 5 218 536 5 229 936 5 249 965 5 321 609 5 333 313 5 396 606 European Patent 0 136 379 Deutsch Patents M 9409743 7 M 9409744 5 Pat Pend ISBN 1 56712 152...

Page 26: ...ide 2 Misspellings correcting 10 Numbers typing 2 10 Question mark key 11 Resetting BOOKMAN 22 Scorekeeping in games 14 Selecting a book 4 Sending words between books 16 STAR key combinations 2 with CARD 16 with DN 8 with UP 8 Tables viewing 12 Troubleshooting BOOKMAN 22 Tutorial reading 6 UP key 2 8 User list adding a highlighted word 13 adding a word 13 deleting a word 13 erasing the list 13 Ver...

Page 27: ...26 FRONT COVER GOES HERE ...

Page 28: ...RIDGE on a single FRANKLIN BOOK MAN at a time You may not make any copies of the BOOKMAN CARTRIDGE or of the data stored therein whether in electronic or print format Such copy ing would be in violation of applicable copyright laws Further you may not modify adapt disassemble decompile translate create derivative works of or in any way reverse engineer the BOOKMAN CARTRIDGE You may not export or r...

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