Sharp The New Oxford American Dictionary Oxford American Thesaurus of Current English ELECTRONIC DICTIONARY PW-E350 - Manual (Page 18)

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Anagram solver
A word or series of letters can be entered to find any matching anagrams found in
the
New Oxford American Dictionary.
Find anagrams for ‘dear’.
1. Press d to open the New Oxford American Dictionary.
Press the } three times to place the cursor at the ‘Anagram solver’, then press
e. The input screen of the Anagram solver appears.
2. Place ‘dear’ in the input field, then
press e to initiate the search.
Up to 100 words may be displayed in
the list.
3. In the list of matches, use the number keys to select a word.
The detailed view with definitions of the selected word appears.
• Press f to return to the previous view.
• Press ^ l to list the headwords in the New Oxford American
Dictionary.
• To initiate another search, simply type in the new spelling or press b to
return to the input screen of the Anagram solver.
Spellcheck function
The spellcheck function can be helpful when the exact spelling of a query word is
not known.
You are not sure whether ‘liason’ or ‘liaison’ is correct.
1. Press s to open the input screen
of the spellcheck function.
2. Enter ‘liason’.
3. Press e to initiate the spellcheck function.
Words with similar spellings will be listed.
• While ‘Searching... Press [ENTER] to break’ is visible, press e to stop
the search. Note that if the search is interrupted, the list of possible results
may not include all the closest matches.
• If the word is typed with the correct spelling, it will appear at the top of the
displayed list.
• If two or more words with an identical spelling are found in the list, then the
relevant headword will also be displayed, after an arrow symbol.
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