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Phonetics
The phonetic transcription of the headword. This can be
seen when the dictionary entries are shown in
Full Display
.
The guide to the phonetic symbols used in the dictionary, is
available from the
Guides and Glossaries
menu in
Help
in
the
Quicktionary Menu
.
Parts of Speech
Categories of words that describe their particular function,
e.g. nouns, verbs, adjectives. Some dictionary entries
contain several parts of speech, such as "land" which is both
a noun (
n.
) and a verb (
v.
).
Idioms
Expressions or phrases usually composed of a sequence of
words. They can be identified:
Automatically within a sentence
By scrolling through the translation of the first word of
the sequence.
If you scan text containing an idiom, the
Quicktionary
application will automatically display the translation of the
idiom when the first word is highlighted, i.e. the idiom "From
A to Z" displayed from the headword "From".