Dictionaries and glossaries to support translation

When preparing or doing technical translations, it is a good practice to document the terminology search that has been made, so creating or enriching specific dictionaries, and accumulating in an orderly way the valuable resources that have been found and used. Nowadays this not only means to be acquainted with and have on the shelf the right books and manuals, but also to arrange in proper directories the links to web pages on particular topics, or the web pages themselves if specially full of useful information, which has been deemed credible, accurate, reasonable, and well supported.

An appreciable quantity of support documents was built up with the passage of years, including the translation memories when computer assisted translation tools were used, the source texts, and the related translations. These select documents, which may be referenced using appropriate desktop search tools, make a valuable contribution to translation quality, and their enrichment is the key to professional enrichment aimed at learning.

We want to make available here some of the dictionaries that have been prepared by our translators. These are a kind of notebooks, filled in by taking notes when doing translations, to keep trace of specially hard terminology search. The contributions are various, and various are the note keeping and presentation styles, which have only partly been attuned through reviews and bundling. We do hope these dictionaries may be helpful to other translators to solve some terminology problems.

Some of the available dictionaries

Architecture, construction, industrial design
Economics and marketing
Farm equipment, tractors
Food and beverage products
Food technology
Law and business contracts
Lifts and elevators
Mechanics and mechanical construction
Medical equipment, clinical research
Paper and cardboard manufacturing
Welding and cutting equipment

We remind you that we may in no way be held neither directly nor indirectly liable for any errors, inaccuracies or omissions in the dictionaries mentioned above. Thank you for any recommendations or suggestions: these will be promptly considered.

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