User manual SHARP PW-E500

[. . . ] MODEL Oxford Dictionary of English New Oxford Thesaurus of English Oxford Dictionary of Quotations PW-E500 ELECTRONIC DICTIONARY OPERATION MANUAL Page · Getting Started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 · Using the Super Jump function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 · Using the History function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 · Using the Calculator function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [. . . ] or pl. ]: used to mark a noun which can be used with either a singular or a plural verb without any change in meaning or in the form of the headword (often called collective nouns, because they typically denote groups of people considered collectively), e. g. the government are committed to this policy or the government is trying to gag its critics. [in sing. ]: used to mark a noun which is used as a count noun but is never or rarely found in the plural, e. g. Terms relating to verbs [with obj. ]: used to mark a verb which takes a direct object, i. e. is transitive (the type of direct object being shown in brackets in the definition). [with adverbial]: used to mark a verb which takes an obligatory adverbial, typically a prepositional phrase, without which the sentence in which the verb occurs would sound unnatural or odd, e. g. Terms relating to adjectives [attrib. ]: used to mark an adjective which is normally used attributively, i. e. certain in a certain man (not the man is certain, which means something very different). Note that attributive use is standard for many adjectives, especially those in specialist or technical fields: the [attrib. ] label is not used in such cases. [predic. ]: used to mark an adjective which is normally used predicatively, i. e. ajar in the door was ajar (not the ajar door). 36 [postpositive]: used to mark an adjective which is used postpositively, i. e. Such uses are unusual in English and generally arise because the adjective has been adopted from a language where postpositive use is standard, e. g. Terms relating to adverbs [sentence adverb]: used to mark an adverb which stands outside a sentence or clause, providing commentary on it as a whole or showing the speaker's or writer's attitude to what is being said, rather than the manner in which something was done. Sentence adverbs most frequently express the speaker's or writer's point of view, although they may also be used to set a context by stating a field of reference, e. g. [as submodifier]: used to mark an adverb which is used to modify an adjective or another adverb, e. g. By using concordancing techniques, each word can be viewed almost instantaneously in the immediate contexts in which it is used. Whereas compilers of previous dictionaries were able to base their work on only a limited selection of citations, lexicographers on the Oxford Dictionary of English analysed hundreds of real examples of each word to see how real language behaves today. Concordances show at a glance that some combinations of words (called `collocations') occur together much more often than others. For example, concordance entries might show that `end in', `end the', and `end up' all occur quite often. But are any of these combinations important enough to be given special treatment in the dictionary?Recent research has focused on identifying combinations that are not merely frequent but also statistically significant. In the Oxford English Corpus, the two words `end the' occur very frequently together but they do not form a statistically significant unit, since the word `the' is the commonest in the language. [. . . ] Cross-references ( ) to specific quotations are used to direct the user to another related item. In each case a reference is given to an author's name or to the title of a special category entry. In some cases, the quotation may exist in two forms, or may depend on an earlier source not quoted in its own right; when that happens, the subordinate quotation is given directly below the quotation to which it relates. Authors who have their own entry are typographically distinguished by the use of bold (`of William Shakespeare', `by Mae West') in context or source notes. Contextual information regarded as essential to a full appreciation of the quotation precedes the text in an italicized note; information seen as providing useful amplification follows in an italicized note. [. . . ]