Phonetics, Parts of speech, Idioms – Wizcom Quicktionary 2 Professional User Manual

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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:

ƒ

Automatically within a sentence

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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".

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