Linguistic Resources III:
Glossaries, Specialist Dictionaries & Bilingual Word Lists
On this page you'll find various glossaries and specialist dictionaries in English and German connected with ATS's main subject areas:
Terminology sources in English:
Glossaries in German or Ger-Eng:
Glossaries in English
Automotive
This is a specialist website that focuses on diesel engines, fuels and emissions.
If you click on the logo above, it will take you to their detailed glossary of English terms, which also includes acronyms commonly used in this field.
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Communications
The Global Mobile Suppliers Association (GSA) is an association of international telecommunications companies. Its website includes a telecoms glossary, which also contains lots of acronyms used in this field.
Click on the GSA's logo to go to the search page.
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Click on the button above to view a further glossary of terms concerned with mobile telecommunications. This one includes a large number of acronyms like SIM, UMTS and EDGE, abbreviations such as "bps" and expressions containing numerals, like 2.5G.
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Webster's Telecom Dictionary
Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary is an American work. It contains more than 7,500 terms "critical to understanding voice, data, video, and multimedia communications system and network technologies, applications, and regulation".
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Energy
US firm Electro Industries, Inc. manufactures products for the energy sector and has written a very comprehensive glossary explaining terms from this field.
Click on the image above to go to the contents page (A-Z).
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Management
This website includes a wealth of information on management topics, part of which has also been translated into German (and other languages).
The site includes a large glossary of management terms in English (click on the logo above).
Apart from providing explanations of terms, it's also useful for translators because it features a large number of background articles on all sorts of management topics - supply chain management, change management, human resources, coaching, brands, quality and ethics, just to name a few.
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Glossary of management terms
US management consultancy Catalyst Consulting Partners LLC has created a glossary of key terms in English using various sources.
This site is also interesting because of the background information it provides on management. You'll find articles on methodology and the "tools of the trade" here, plus white papers, case studies and presentations on topics like change management, leadership and conflict resolution - the nitty gritty with lots of valuable terminology from this specialist field.
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Quality management
A glossary of quality management terms produced by the American Society for Quality is available here.
It's based on "a variety of sources, including books, periodicals, Web sites and quality experts" and is intended for people who work in the QM industry, ASQ says.
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Management and HR
The Human Resources Institute of New Zealand (HRINZ) has created two related glossaries of interest: one on management in general and one specifically on human resource management.
These resources are part of a much larger searchable knowledge base that includes articles on business and management issues.
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Marketing
Monash University's marketing dictionary
The Department of Marketing at Monash University, Australia maintains a detailed marketing glossary that's free for its students and anyone else to use.
As well as explaining marketing terms and concepts, it includes various acronyms used in the field (some of which are specific to Australian bodies).
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Here's an informative glossary of terms connected with marketing, Web design and using the Web for marketing purposes - "Internet marketing").
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Customer Value, Inc. in Boston has made a glossary of terms used to talk about competitive marketing strategies such as branding.
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Materials
AZOM stands for "the A to Z of materials". The aim of AZoM.com is "to become the primary materials information source for the engineering and design community worldwide".
The online dictionary is very useful if you need to find out the chemical formula of a material or want to learn more about its composition. Click on the graphic to go there.
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Patents
Various national patent offices have produced glossaries explaining patent terminology.
Click here to go to the Patent Resources page on our website where a few of these are listed (see item 3).
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Railways
The NMRA (National Model Railroad Association) might seem a bit of an unusual choice at first glance, but they have actually created a detailed glossary of (American) English terms used in railway engineering as well as model-making.
It's worth a visit if you need to find out what technical terms in this field mean exactly.
Incidentally, John Oxlade has put a useful German-English glossary of railway terms on the www.worldrailfans.org website. See Section 4 of the Patents page - "Railway engineering" - for further details.
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Railway acronyms
The British Rail Safety & Standards Board has made a list of industry-related acronyms and abbreviations on its website and explained the meaning of each one there. It ranges from "ACOP" (Approved Code of Practice) to "VPF" (Value of Preventing Fatality).
Click on the logo below to view the list:
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German-English/German glossaries
Banking
The Association of German Banks (Bundesverband deutscher Banken) maintains a good glossary of German terms used in the field of banking and finance.
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UBS hasn't just produced an English glossary of banking terms, but made it into a multilingual dictionary as well by including the terms in their German, English, French and Italian forms:
The dictionary was updated in 2005 and now contains over 2,400 terms. It's also regularly expanded.
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Branding & Marketing
The Austrian platform for branding specialists, www.marke.at, has created a glossary of terms from this area, some of which are English and some of which are German. They are all explained here and many of the explanations include links to other listed terms.
The site is also useful because of the industry news and articles it features. You might like to try their quizzes as well - see what you know!
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Management
BEA, a firm of German management consultants, has made a fairly big glossary of German and English terms (120+) used in the field, which you can access from here.
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