Sharp PW-E500 operation manual World English, Opposites

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historical: still used today, but only to refer to some practice or article that is no longer part of the modern world, e.g. crinoline as a synonym for petticoat.

humorous: used with the intention of sounding funny or playful, e.g. termino- logical inexactitude as a synonym for lie.

archaic: very old-fashioned language, not in ordinary use at all today, but sometimes used to give a deliberately old-fashioned effect or found in works of the past that are still widely read, e.g. aliment as a synonym for food.

rare:not in common use, e.g. acclivitous as a synonym for steep.

World English

It is an oft-repeated truism that English is now a world language. In this thesaurus, particular care has been taken to include synonyms from every variety of English, not just British, and when these are exclusively or very strongly associated with a region of the world they are labelled as such.

The main regional standards are British (abbreviated to <Brit.>), North American (<N. Amer.>), Australian and New Zealand (<Austral./NZ>), South African (<S. African>), Indian (in the sense of the variety of English found throughout the subcontinent), and West Indian (<W. Indian>). Only if the distinction is very clear is any finer labelling used, as with beer parlour, a Canadian synonym for bar.

Scottish, Irish, and Northern English are varieties within the British Isles containing distinctive vocabulary items of their own. The main synonyms found as regional terms of this kind are listed here and labelled accordingly.

The term for something found mainly or only in a particular country or region (although it may be mentioned in any variety of English) is identified by an indication such as '<<in France>>'. An example is gîte (as a synonym for cottage).

Many regionally restricted terms are informal, rather than being part of the standard language. Writers in the northern hemisphere in search of local colour may be delighted to learn that an Australian synonym for sordid is scungy, while Australian writers may find it equally useful to be given the equivalent terms in Britain, manky and grotty.

Opposites

Many synonym sets are followed by one or more words that have the opposite meaning from the headword, often called 'antonyms'. There are several different kinds of antonym. True and false are absolute antonyms, with no middle ground. Logically, a statement is either true or false, but cannot be slightly true or rather false. Hot and cold, on the other hand, are antonyms with gradations of meaning: it makes perfectly good sense to say that something is rather hot or very cold, and there are a number of words (warm, tepid, cool) which represent intermediate stages. It makes sense to ask about something "How hot is it?" but that commits the speaker to the notion that it is hot at least to some extent. So hot and cold are at opposite ends of a continuum, rather than being absolutes.

For many words, there is no single word that counts as an antonym, but there may be a phrase that gets the opposite meaning across. For example, what is the opposite of senile? There is no exact antonym, but the phrase in the prime of life gets the opposite meaning across. In this title the broadest possible definition has been adopted, giving the maximum amount of information to the user. In some cases, a phrasal antonym is given for a phrasal subentry, e.g. bottle things up as an antonym for let off steam.

The antonyms given in this thesaurus are not the only possible opposites, but they are usually the furthest in meaning from the headword. By looking up the 'opposite' word as an entry in its own right, the user will generally find a much larger range of antonyms to choose from. For example, at the entry for delete the user will find:

-OPPOSITE(S) add, insert.

Both add and insert are entries in their own right.

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Contents PW-E500 Introduction Contents Getting Started Using the PW-E500 for the first timeExample Turning the power on/offAuto power off function Key notation used in this manualData contained in the PW-E500 Layout Display symbols Key assignmentsOperation guidance message Basic Operation Inputting words for a dictionary searchSelecting a dictionary / function in the main menu Filter search view selecting an item scrolling List view selecting an item scrollingDetail view scrolling Shifting the displayed character size zRecalling the terms previously searched h Listing a summary of detail view items q Searching a word on the screenBrowsing Notes r Set-up Menu Setting the key sound on/offInputting Characters Setting the Auto power off activation timeAdjusting the LCD contrast Starting Auto Demo mode4WD Modifying entryLooking up a word Filter search If there is no match foundBrowsing Notes Crossword solver Phrase searchSpellcheck function Anagram solverIf the list of words do not appear as expected Further informationThesaurus of English Press tto open the New Oxford Thesaurus of English Searching by an author name Filter search Using the Oxford Dictionary of QuotationsPress uto open the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Keyword searchRandom quote Theme searchHow to use the Super Jump function Using the Super Jump functionAbout the detail view after the Jump Specifying a Dictionary to jump toHow to use the History function Deleting a history itemDeleting the history list of a Dictionary Prior to initiating calculations Calculation examplesExample Operation Display Setting a currency rate Currency converterConverting currencies Units capable of being converted Metric converterWhen to replace the battery Replacing the batteryBattery used PrecautionsReset procedure if trouble occurs SpecificationsReset procedures Product support TroubleshootingNose Oxford Dictionary of EnglishIntroduction Structure Core Sense and SubsenseSpecialized case of the core sense, e.g Encyclopedic Material Specialist VocabularyTerms relating to nouns GrammarOther terms relating to nouns Terms relating to verbsTerms relating to adjectives Oxford Reading Programme Evidence and Illustrative ExamplesTerms relating to adverbs Oxford English CorpusWord Histories Specialist readingExamples Standard English Usage NotesWorld English Hyphenation SpellingVariant spellings Ise or ize?Inflection VerbsNouns Adjectives PronunciationsConsonants Foreign pronunciationsNew Oxford Thesaurus of English Synonyms Selection of entries Tables a table is displayed as a in this model HomonymsIllustrative examples Linguistic evidence Phrasal verbs and idiomatic phrasesRegister standard vs informal and regional English Opposites Awkward synonyms and confusables Oxford Dictionary of QuotationsRelated terms Combining formsPage Page How to use the Dictionary Keyword Search Theme SearchMemo Memo Europe Sharp Corporation
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