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The world’s largest collection of specialist Dutch/English terminology
Hi, I’m Michael Beijer, Dutch⇆English technical/patent translator & terminologist with 30 years of professional experience. Correct and consistent terminology is critical in translation, which is why I maintain an extensive database of specialist terminology. This website presents a large selection from my carefully maintained terminology archives in a systematic and easily searchable format. Beijerterm is the largest collection of specialist Dutch/English terminology in the world!
Finding stuff
If you’re struggling with a pesky term there’s a good chance you’ll find it on Beijerterm. You have several options:
- Consult the many terms I have researched
- Browse the various Categories I use to organise the material
- Click the little triangles in the table below to sort on columns
- Have a look through the Tag cloud
- Try the search box above! Tip: put your search term "in quotes"
| Title: A | On Beijerterm | On my bookshelf | Notes | Categories | Languages |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abbreviations.com | Abbreviations | ||||
| Abbreviations Used In Hotels | ✔ | Abbreviations | |||
| A Bibliography of Dutch Dictionaries, by Frans Claes & Peter Bakema | |||||
| AccessScience.com | Online version: McGraw-Hill’s Encyclopedia of Science & Technology | ||||
| A Compleat Dictionary English and Dutch (1766), Willem Sewel & Egbert Buys | |||||
| A Comprehensive Dictionary of the World (Thomas Wright; Mittal Publications, India) | |||||
| A Contrastive Grammar of English and Dutch (1987) | ‘Contrastieve grammatica Engels-Nederlands’ | nl, en | |||
| Acronymbook (formerly ‘acronymbook.com’) | Several years ago, I was planning to create a huge, open-source website with hundreds of thousands of acronyms, abbreviations and initialisms. It was going to be called ‘Acronymbook.com’. I eventually abandoned the project but some of the data lives on in these 7 pages. | Abbreviations | |||
| Acronymfinder.com | (probably the best place to find acronyms/abbreviations) | Abbreviations | |||
| Acronyms, Abbreviations and Initialisms (defined) | Abbreviations | ||||
| ACRONYMS+ABBREVIATIONS (DE, FR, EN, NL).txt | ✔ | (713 acronyms) | Abbreviations | nl, en | |
| Addenda bij woordenboek Scheeps- Regel- en Installatietechniek (J. Delévaque) | Full of useful terms; hard to find. French, English, Dutch. | Shipping | nl, en, fr | ||
| A Dutch Vocabulary (Bruce Donaldson, 1985) | |||||
| Afkortingen en definities - Beleidsdraaiboek Klassieke Varkenspest & Afrikaanse Varkenspest | |||||
| Afkortingen (etymologie.nl) | ✔ | Abbreviations | nl | ||
| Afkortingen kosten (Koninklijk Besluit van 30 november 1976) | a list of abbreviations used in Belgian legal documents | Flemish | nl | ||
| Afkortingenlijst Belgische Juridische Tijdschriften V&A | |||||
| Afkortingenlijst t.b.v. Supply Chain Management, Inkoop en Logistiek (Hessel Visser) | ✔ | ||||
| Afkortingenlijst (found 2020-01-14) | ✔ | ||||
| Afkortingenlijst van Team Taaladvies (de taaladviesdienst van de Vlaamse overheid) | ✔ | (vlaanderen.be/taaladvies/afkortingenlijst) | Flemish | nl | |
| Afkortingenlijst voor Engelse tijdschriften (181 English entries) | ✔ | ||||
| Afkortingen vakken (Huygens College) | ✔ | Education | nl | ||
| A Glossary of Common Terms for Land and Land Tenure | ✔ | Property | en | ||
| A Glossary of Plastics Terminology in 6 Languages | http://www.polymerbranch.com/gloss.html | Plastics | ru, en, fr, de, it, es | ||
| A Glossary of Plastics Terminology in 8 Languages (Wolfgang W. Glenz) | English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Portuguese, Russian, and Chinese (8th edition) | Plastics | en, de, es, it, fr, pt, ru, zh | ||
| A Glossary of Selected Fiber and Textile Terms (ballyribbon.com) | English terms with definitions | Textiles | en | ||
| Aircraft Systems - Abbreviations and Acronyms (Prof. Dieter Scholz) | Aviation, Abbreviations | en | |||
| Acronymslist.com | Abbreviations | ||||
| acronyms (some).xls | ✔ | Abbreviations | |||
| Acronyms.silmaril.ie/#0 | (formerly known as the Internet Acronym Server, created in 1988) | Abbreviations | |||
| Acronyms.thefreedictionary.com | Abbreviations | ||||
| Acronyms used in the CISA Exam | |||||
| Acoustics Dictionary: Quadrilingual: English, German, French, Dutch (Springer Netherlands, 1983) | nl, en fr, de | ||||
| ADP: Human Resources Lexicon: payroll & HR administration terms (2,000 entries) | ✔ | Business | nl, en, de, fr, es, it | ||
| Afkortingen in de GGZ (clientenraden-rivierduinen.nl)(approx. 850 abbreviations used in Dutch mental health care) | ✔ | GGZ = Geestelijke gezondheidszorg = mental health care | Mental health | nl | |
| AGARD - Multilingual Aeronautical Dictionary, Acronyms and Abbreviations (approx. 3000 acronyms) | ✔ | Aviation | |||
| A Glossary of Weaving Terms (Weaver House) | ✔ | English terms with definitions | Textile | en | |
| AGROVOC Thesaurus (some German and English entries) | ✔ | a multilingual controlled vocabulary covering all areas of interest to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) | Agriculture | de, en | |
| Dutch.AGROVOC (Dutch and various other languages) | ✔ | a multilingual controlled vocabulary covering all areas of interest to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) | Agriculture | nl, en, ar, es, fr, ru, zh | |
| Air cargo terms | ✔ | Aviation | nl, en | ||
| AIRGLOSS: Air Infiltration Glossary (Dutch ⇄ English)(Carolyn Allen) | ✔ | nl, en | |||
| Algemeen Nederlands Woordenboek (ANW) | Het Algemeen Nederlands Woordenboek (ANW) is een corpusgebaseerd, digitaal woordenboek van het eigentijdse Nederlands in Nederland en Vlaanderen, in Suriname en in het Caraïbisch gebied. De taalperiode die het ANW bestrijkt, loopt van 1970 tot heden en valt min of meer samen met de naoorlogse generaties volwassen taalgebruikers. Het is een synchroon woordenboek, wat betekent dat het de eigentijdse taal beschrijft en in principe geen aandacht besteedt aan de herkomst ervan (etymologie). | Dictionaries | nl | ||
| Algemeen technisch woordenboek (ca. 1906) M. Faassen (Gep. 1ste Luitenant der Artillerie | ✔ | Archived @ archives/Algemeen-technisch-woordenboek-1906-M.-Faassen.pdf | Technical | nl | |
| Allacronyms.com | |||||
| Alpex Textile Glossary | ✔ | Source: http://www.alpexonline.com/index.php (glossary seems to be offline now, 2020-12-16) | Textile | en | |
| A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting (3rd edition), Kenneth A. Adams | ✔ | Law | |||
| American and British English spelling differences | Localisation | ||||
| American Mathematical Society (annser.csv) | Abbreviations | ||||
| Amsterdam Airport Schiphol Glossary (2,143 Dutch-English terms) | ✔ | Aviation | nl, en | ||
| Amo Institute of Sciences | |||||
| Animal adjectives (avian, canine, cygnine, etc.) | Animals | ||||
| Animals (Dutch, English and Latin - 7,197 entries) | ✔ | Animals | nl, en | ||
| Anna’s Archive (formerly ‘Pirate Library Mirror’) | ‘Our mission is to archive all the books in the world, and make them widely accessible. To this end, we believe that all books should be mirrored far and wide. This ensures redundancy and resiliency.’ (https://annas-archive.org/datasets) | Aggregators | |||
| ANNEX 31 - Glossary terms relating to the energy-related environmental performance of buildings | Environment | ||||
| Annual report terms (251 Dutch-English entries) | ✔ | Finance | nl, en | ||
| Antalis.nl: glossary of paper industry terms (Dutch, English, French and German) | Paper | nl, en, de, fr | |||
| Antiquarian Dictionary in four languages (Boekenvondst.nl) | (964 Dutch-English terms) | Abbreviations | nl, en | ||
| A Pirate’s Glossary (from ‘abaft’ to ‘yo-ho-ho’) | ✔ | Pirates | en | ||
| A Pocket Guide to Call Center Terms and Acronyms | ✔ | Call centres | en | ||
| Analyse van op fijn stof gesorbeerde toxische organische micropolluenten (Wim Geeraerts) | ✔ | Chemistry | nl | ||
| antiqbook.com | Specialist online bookshop (selling bilingual/multilingual dictionaries) | Bookshops | |||
| Apple glossary (45,000 Dutch-English entries) | ✔ | IT | nl, en | ||
| A to Z of Diamonds Glossary (24carat.co.uk) | ✔ | Diamonds | en | ||
| Automotive terms (W.P. Barendsen & D. Belau, 2001) | ✔ | Automotive | nl, en, de | ||
| Autowoordenboek: viertalig technisch woordenboek voor de auto- en motorrijwielbranche (S. van Renssen)(Kluwer, 1959) | ✔ | Automotive | nl, en, de, fr | ||
| Avans University of Applied Sciences - Terminologielijst Avans Hogeschool | ✔ | (1,272 Dutch-English entries) | Education | nl, en | |
| Avibase (The World Bird Database) | Avibase is an extensive database information system about all birds of the world, containing over 50 million records about 11,197 species and 22,000 subspecies of birds, including distribution information for 20,000 regions, taxonomy, synonyms in several languages and more | Birds | nl, en (and many others) | ||
| A-Z Begrippenlijst - Gokkasten (Dutch slot machine glossary) | ✔ | Gambling | nl | ||
| Title: A | On Beijerterm | On my bookshelf | Notes | Categories | Languages |