Sharp PWE260 Operation Manual - Page 68

Oxford Mini Thesaurus Note on trademarks and proprietary status This dictionary includes some words which have, or are asserted to have, proprietary status as trademarks or otherwise. Their inclusion does not imply that they have acquired for legal purposes a nonproprietary or general significance, nor any other judgement concerning their legal status. In cases where the editorial staff have some evidence that a word has proprietary status this is indicated in the entry for that word by the label trademark but no judgement concerning the legal status of such words is made or implied thereby. Guide to the thesaurus Entries are divided into numbered sections according to sense. The first synonym in each section is the most useful and helps to identify its sense. Most of the synonyms given are part of standard English, but some have restricted use. These are placed at the end of each group and have the following labels in front of them: informal, e.g. swig: normally only used in speech or informal writing. formal, e.g. thereupon: normally only used in writing, such as official documents. technical, e.g. admixture. Words used in specific fields are labelled Medicine, Nautical, etc. poetic/literary, e.g. plenteous. dated, e.g. rotter. historical, e.g. serfdom: only used today to refer to things that are no longer part of modern life. humorous, e.g. posterior. archaic, e.g. aliment: not in use today except for old-fashioned effect. Synonyms are also labelled if they are exclusively or mainly British, Scottish, North American, Australian, or New Zealand expressions. 66