COED11 Contents
Contents for the Concise Oxford English Dictionary on CD-ROM

INTRODUCTION

About the Concise Oxford English Dictionary on CD-ROM

Help

GETTING STARTED

System requirements

Installation

STARTING AND ENDING A SESSION

Starting the Concise Oxford English Dictionary

Closing the Concise Oxford English Dictionary

TERMINOLOGY

Terminology

THE APPLICATION WINDOW

The Application Window

Buttons

Altering the size of index and entry text

NAVIGATION

Using the keyboard

Viewing front and end matter

Cross-references and Hypersearch

Searching

Retracing your steps

INSTANT LOOKUP

Instant Lookup facility

Float option

Turning Instant Lookup on and off

HEADWORD INDEX AND QUICK SEARCH

Headword Index and Quick search

FULL TEXT SEARCH

Full text search

Phrase search

Using wild cards

Combining search terms using Boolean operators

COPYING TEXT FROM COED11

Copying text from COED11

PRINTING

Printing

GAMES

Games

REMOVING COED11 FROM YOUR COMPUTER

Removing the COED11 from your computer


About the Concise Oxford English Dictionary on CD-ROM

The Concise Oxford English Dictionary (COED11) on CD-ROM provides you with powerful, easy to use searching of the Eleventh Edition of this best-selling dictionary of current English. This brand new CD-ROM also includes the following features:

•	A revolutionary Instant Lookup facility, which allows you to look up words from your Web browser, or from any text-based application in Windows®, at the click of a mouse button.

•	You install and run COED11 from your hard disk for maximum accessibility. No more hunting for the CD-ROM when you want to look up a word. If you turn on COED11 when you turn on your PC, then the dictionary is only a double mouse click away.

Imagine that you have just typed the word comprise into your word processor document and you are not quite sure whether you have used it correctly. What do you do? Spend half a minute getting your dictionary from the shelf and looking it up? Decide it is too much trouble and just leave it unchecked? If you have COED11 sitting discreetly in the corner of your screen, you can double-click on the word you have just typed and its entry will be displayed in fraction of a second. With commonly misspelled or misused words, like comprise, you will also find a helpful note on the word’s proper usage. Alternatively, you might have just seen the word effulgent on a Web page and you wonder what it means. All you need to do is double click on effulgent on the Web page and it will be looked up for you instantly in COED11.

• Help


Help

This Help describes the features of the COED11 on CD-ROM. It contains all the information you need to install and use the application, with information on how to make the most of the search facilities, follow cross-references, retrace your steps, and copy and print entries

• About the Concise Oxford English Dictionary on CD-ROM

• System requirements


System requirements

To use COED11 you will need:

•	A PC with minimum 166MHz Pentium-class processor

•	Windows® 98, Me, NT 4.0, XP, or 2000

•	64 MB of RAM

•	180 MB free hard disk space

•	SVGA monitor, set to display high colour (64K or 16-bit colour)

•	CD-ROM drive

•	Windows®-compatible 16-bit sound card.

• Help

• Installation


Installation

1.	Start Windows® as usual or, if you are already running Windows, exit any other applications running on your PC.

2.	Place the COED11 CD-ROM into the CD-ROM drive. The installation program should start up automatically. If it does not, click the START button on your Windows® Taskbar and select RUN…. Type D:\SETUP.EXE (where D:\ is the letter of your CD-ROM drive).

3.	Follow the instructions given by the installation program and COED11 will be installed into a new folder on your hard disk.

4.	A new program group called COED11 is also created in START, PROGRAMS, and contains two icons: THE CONCISE OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY and UNINSTALL CONCISE OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY.

• System requirements

• Starting the Concise Oxford English Dictionary


Starting the Concise Oxford English Dictionary

COED11 is installed on to your hard drive, so you do not need to have the disc in your CD-ROM drive to use the application. All you need to do to start the application is either: double-click on the CONCISE OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY icon on your desktop, or click the START button on your Windows® Taskbar, choose PROGRAMS, and select the CONCISE OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY icon in the COED11 program group.

• Installation

• Closing the Concise Oxford English Dictionary


Closing the Concise Oxford English Dictionary

To close the dictionary, do one of the following:

•	Press ALT + F4

•	Click on the X button in the top right-hand corner of the application window

•	Click on the COED11 icon in the top left-hand corner of the application window and choose CLOSE.

• Starting the Concise Oxford English Dictionary

• Terminology


Terminology

The dictionary contains more than 65,000 entries arranged alphabetically. Each entry is identified by its headword, which acts as the name of the entry. In some cases two or more headwords share the same spelling (these are homographs); these are distinguished by the addition of a number and part of speech after the headword in the Headword Index.

The COED11 program lets you search headwords using Quick search. You can also use the Full Text search to search across the entire text of the dictionary. See Quick search and Full Text search for more information about searching.

• Closing the Concise Oxford English Dictionary

• The Application Window


The Application Window

On the left-hand side of the Application Window, you will see a scrollable index. This is the Headword Index. To the right of the Headword Index is the Entry Pane, where the dictionary entries are displayed. You can adjust the relative size of these two display areas by moving the vertical ‘splitter’ bar between them using your mouse, or ALT+< and ALT+> to move the splitter left or right, respectively.

Above the Headword list is an input box. When you are doing a Quick search then each letter you type will find the closest match to what you have typed in the Headword Index. This is called ‘incremental searching’. The entry which is the closest match to your search term is automatically displayed.

When you swap to a Full Text search there are two input boxes in place of the single input box used in the Quick search. The input boxes are separated by a Boolean operator button, so that you can determine how the separate search terms are combined for a Full Text search. You can move between them by pressing TAB.

Each time COED11 is started it chooses an interesting or amusing entry for its opening display.

• Terminology

• Buttons


Buttons

The following buttons are on the COED11 application window:

/	(ALT+S) Toggles between Quick search (Headword search) – the default search option – and Full Text search – this allows you to search for words and phrases across the entire text of the dictionary.

(ALT+B) Allows you to retrace your steps and go back to the entries that you have visited in the current session. See Retracing your steps.

(ALT+C) Opens the Copy or print the entry window, from where you can copy or print the entry in full, or selected text from the entry. See Copying text from COED11.

(ALT+O) You can choose whether to set COED11 to float on top of current applications (Float option), and you can turn the double-click lookup on and off (Turning Instant Lookup on and off.

(ALT+T) This option alters the size of the index and entry text. When you click the SIZE button, you toggle between two different font sizes. Simply select the one that you are most comfortable with. See Altering the size of index and entry text.

(ALT+A) Displays the front or end matter of the dictionary, as it appears in the printed book, in PDF format. See Viewing front and end matter.

(ALT+G) Switches to games. See Games.

(F1) Takes you to the Help text.

• The Application Window

• Altering the size of index and entry text


Altering the size of index and entry text

You can alter the size of the index and entry text by clicking on the [image] button at the bottom of the application window. It toggles between two different text sizes.

• Buttons

• Using the keyboard


Using the keyboard

You can use the keyboard to control all of COED11’s functions.

•	Each button has a keyboard shortcut. Press the ALT key, plus the underlined button’s shortcut letter. For example, ALT+S takes you to Full Text search. For a list of keyboard shortcuts, see Section 4.1. For a list of keyboard shortcuts, see Buttons.

•	You can navigate the Headword Index using the arrow keys and Page Up/Down.

•	To navigate the Entry Pane, use SHIFT+Up/Down arrow and SHIFT+Page Up/Down to scroll through an entry line by line.

•	Use ALT+< and ALT+> to move the border between the Headword Index and the Entry Pane left or right, respectively.

•	In a Full Text search you can move between the input boxes using the TAB key. To cycle through the Boolean operators, use ALT+Q. To start a search, press ENTER.

•	When selecting an option from the Options window, use the Up or Down arrow to highlight the option you want and press SPACE to tick or untick it.

• Altering the size of index and entry text

• Viewing front and end matter


Viewing front and end matter

You can view the dictionary’s front and end matter just as you would in the printed book. Click the [image] button and choose either:

•	About the Concise Oxford English Dictionary. This is the text which appears at the beginning of the printed edition. This contains the Preface, the Introduction, and information on abbreviations used in the dictionary.

•	These are the appendices which appear at the back of the printed book. They include information on such topics as Countries of the World, Weights and Measures, Collective Nouns, Good English, etc.

The text appears in Adobe Acrobat in PDF.

• Using the keyboard

• Cross-references and Hypersearch


Cross-references and Hypersearch

There are two types of cross-reference in COED11 on CD-ROM:

•	The COED11 text contains explicit cross-references, which appear in red text. These explicit cross-references are links from one dictionary entry to another for purposes of comparison or explanation. To follow a cross-reference, click on it with your mouse, and the target entry will appear in the Entry Pane.

Alternatively, to cross-reference to another entry, use SHIFT+Up/Down arrow and SHIFT+Page Up/Down to select the word that you want to look up (your selected word is surrounded by a grey rectangle when it is selected), then press ENTER to move to the matching entry.

• For example: in the entry oyster plant, there is a cross-reference to salsify. To follow this, click on it and you are taken to the entry salsify.

•	You can also use Hypersearch to look up any word in an entry. Simply click on it once with your mouse. This performs a Hypersearch and the Headword Index will scroll to the correct entry and the target entry will be displayed in the Entry Pane.

• For example: in the entry oyster plant, click on the word borage, and you will be taken to the entry for borage.

•	Hypersearch can also deal with inflected forms of words (e.g. verb tenses and plurals). If an inflection has its own entry, you will be taken to the entry for that inflection (e.g. the inflections ran and running have their own entries). If there is no entry for the inflection that you have selected then you will be taken to the base form of the word.

• For example: in the entry metanoia, clicking on the word penitence takes you to the base form penitent. In COED11, penitence is listed as a derivative of penitent.

• Viewing front and end matter

• Searching


Searching

See Headword Index and Quick search and Full text search.

• Cross-references and Hypersearch

• Retracing your steps


Retracing your steps

The COED11 keeps a record of the entries which you have visited in the current session. To move back sequentially through the entries which you have visited, click the [image] button.

• Searching

• Instant Lookup facility


Instant Lookup facility

The COED11 application features a brand new and innovative Instant Lookup feature, which enables you to consult the dictionary from your Web browser, and from any other text-based application in Windows®, at the click of a mouse button. To use Instant Lookup, you need to have the COED11 application running. Then when you double click on a word on your Web page, in your email, or in your word processor document, it is looked up in COED11, and the entry is displayed for you. If the Float option is enabled (this is the default), you do not even have to jump to COED11 to see the definition, because the COED11 application window is always visible. You can also use Instant Lookup if you highlight a word and press CTRL+C, or select Copy from the appropriate menu in your current application.

Instant Lookup can also deal with inflected forms of words (e.g., verb tenses, plurals, and derivatives). If an inflection has its own entry, you will be taken to the entry for that inflection (e.g., the derivative theatrical has its own entry). If there is no entry for the inflection that you have selected then you will be taken to the base form of the word (e.g., if you look up inflexibility, you are taken to the base form inflexible). If there is no exact match for the word which you are looking up in COED11, you will be taken to the nearest alphabetical match in the Headword Index.

• Retracing your steps

• Float option


Float option

You can set the COED11 window to float on top of your current application when it is running. You can then reduce the size of the COED11 Application Window and tuck COED11 in the corner of your screen and it will always be visible, no matter which application you are working in. The Float option is turned on/off by clicking in the box beside DICTIONARY WINDOW FLOATS ON TOP in the OPTIONS window. (Click [image] to open it.).

To select either option using the keyboard, use the Up or Down arrow to highlight the option you want and press SPACE to tick or untick it.

• Instant Lookup facility

• Turning Instant Lookup on and off


Turning Instant Lookup on and off

Instant Lookup is turned on in COED11 by default. If you prefer to switch Instant Lookup off for a time, press the [image] button and untick the WATCH CLIPBOARD AND RESPOND TO DOUBLE CLICKS option. To turn the Lookup option back on again, simply click the tick box again.

To select either option using the keyboard, use the Up or Down arrow to highlight the option you want and press SPACE to tick or untick it.

• Float option

• Headword index and Quick search


Headword Index and Quick search

When COED11 opens, it displays an alphabetical list of all 65,000 headword entries in the Headword Index on the left. Quick search, which allows you to search the Headword list, is selected by default. You can scroll through the Headword Index from A to Z using the mouse and scroll bar or arrow keys. To view any entry, click on its headword in the list and the entry will appear in the Entry Pane, on the right.

• Imagine you have just encountered the word floccinaucinihilipilification and wonder what on earth it can mean. By the time you have typed the first five letters, flocc, the entry is displayed.

You can also use wild cards in Quick search. If you perform a wild card search in Quick search, the results will be displayed in the Headword Index. Please see Using Wild Cards for more information.

Quick search is not case-sensitive, so you can either use lower-case letters or upper-case letters and the results will be the same.

Quick search also ignores spaces and punctuation, which is useful, if you are unsure whether a compound is hyphenated or not.

• For example you can type catch-22, catch22, or catch 22 into the input box in Quick search and you will be taken to the entry catch-22.

The software ignores characters with accents and diacritics when searching.

To search for a word, such as Übermensch, containing an umlaut, simply type the word in with an unaccented u and the word will be found.

• Turning Instant Lookup on and off

• Full text search


Full Text search

Full Text search allows you to search the entire text of the COED11 for all of the occurrences of a word.

To select Full Text, click the [image] button. To search for a specific word, type it in the input box, and press the ENTER key or click the [image] button. After you have done a Full Text search, the Headword Index changes to display an alphabetical results list of all the entries in which your search term appears. To display one of the entries which contain a result, click on the result with your mouse, and the entry appears in the Entry Pane, with the result highlighted.

To switch from the list of search hits to the full list of A to Z entries, click on the [image] button.

• For example: to perform a simple Full Text search for the word insect, click the [image] button, type the word in the input box, and press the ENTER key or click on the [image] button to start the search. A list of entries containing insect is displayed.

• Headword index and Quick search

• Phrase search


Phrase search

Full Text search also allows you to do a phrase search to find compounds, phrases, idioms, and phrasal verbs. To search for an exact phrase, simply type it into the first input box.

• For example: if you have seen the term money of account and don't know what it means, you can just type money of account into the first input box in Full Text search. A phrase search often helps you to do a more focused search for multi-word expressions. For example, a Full Text Boolean AND search for money AND account yields 24 results, whereas a phrase search returns only two results. See Combining search terms using Boolean operators for more information about Boolean searching.

• Full text search

• Using wild cards


Using wild cards

You can use wild cards to represent one or more letters in your search term so that you can expand the scope of a Quick search or Full Text search.

•	The ? character stands for one character.

• Thus if you search for ?leat in Quick search, the results are bleat, cleat, and pleat, and d?spatch matches despatch and dispatch.

•	The * character stands for zero or more characters.

• Thus if you search for colo*r, you get color, colour, and colorimeter returned as results.

You can have as many wild cards as you like, and combine them in the same search. For example, the search term e?t*p? matches: ectomorph, enthalpy, and entropy.

Wild cards are useful when searching for a word if you are uncertain of the spelling, to find a group of grammatically related words with the same base form, and to find words with the same suffix or prefix. They are also useful when solving crossword puzzles when only certain letters are known.

If you have done a wild card search in Full Text search with the wild card term in the first input box, clicking [image] returns you to a list of main headwords which match your wild card term. To return to the full A to Z list, delete the search term from the input box.

• Phrase search

• Combining search terms using Boolean operators


Combining search terms using Boolean operators

The Boolean operators AND, OR, and NOT are used in Full Text searches and let you search for entries containing more than one term. Boolean operators can also be combined with wild cards.

In Full Text search, the search terms are entered into two input boxes separated by the Operator box. To switch from one input box to the other using the keyboard, press TAB. Click the Operator box or press ALT+Q to cycle through AND, OR, and NOT.

•	Use AND to find entries that contain both your search terms.

• For example: to search the text for entries that refer to Jewish festivals. Type jewish in the first input box, select AND, type festival* in the second input box, and press ENTER or the START SEARCH button. The Results List consists of those entries which contain both search terms. Using a wild card here picks up occurrences of festival and festivals.

•	Use OR to find entries which contain either of your search terms.

• For example: to search the full text for words ending with –philia or –phobia, select Full Text search, type *philia in the first input box, select OR in the Operator box, and type *phobia in the second box. The results list contains all those entries containing words which end in either –philia or –phobia, or both.

•	Use NOT to find entries which contain one of your terms but not the other.

• For example: to search the full text for words beginning with christ– but excluding Christmas, type christ* in the first input box, choose NOT in the Operator box, and type Christmas in the second input box.

• Using wild cards

• Copying text from COED11


Copying text from COED11

You can copy text from the dictionary into any text-based application in Windows®. To copy text, go to the entry that you wish to copy and click the [image] button. The Copy or print the entry window appears. Click the COPY button to copy the entry in full. To copy part of the entry, highlight the text you want before clicking COPY (or pressing ALT+C). Return to your destination document and paste in the copied text either by choosing Paste from the Edit menu or using CTRL+V.

You can also print out the an entry (or a highlighted part of an entry) from this window: click the [image] button or press ALT+P.

• Combining search terms using Boolean operators

• Printing


Printing

To print the current entry (or part of an entry):

•	Open to the entry that you wish to copy and click the [image] button (or press ALT+C). The Copy or print the entry window appears.

•	Click the [image] button or press ALT+P.

• Copying text from COED11

• Games


Games

To access the games, click on the [image] button (or press (ALT+G). Instructions for playing the games are given in the Games window.

• Printing

• Removing COED11 from your computer


Removing COED11 from your computer

Removing the COED11 from your computer is easy:

1.	Select PROGRAMS from the START menu on your Windows® taskbar and then select UNINSTALL CONCISE OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY from the COED11 program group

2.	Simply follow the instructions given by the uninstall program and COED11 will be removed from your computer

• Games