• Thousands of specialized translations.
• An user-friendly and clear interface: the dictionaries use Lexibase interface.
• Precise search results according to your specialty.
• The specialized dictionaries can be used separately and can also be used together with the Collins Lexibase range.

In need of a dictionary for precise translations ? With the specialized dictionaries, you will find a comprehensive translation amongst thousands of words and expressions dedicated to different sectors.

Softissimo offers specialized dictionaries in order to meet you requirements in different domains. These dictionaries use Lexibase interface and are compatible with the Collins Lexibase range, which will allow you to combine all kinds of dictionaries.

 

3 specialties are available for download (English <=> French):
Business: Bank, Finance, Stock Market...
Industry: Mechanics, public buildings and works sector, steel industry...
Medical: Medicine, Pharmacy, Laboratory...

This type of dictionaries can also be made available for business use (through PCs network) or on Lexibase Intranet application. Many other specialized dictionaries will be soon available, through the same interface. Softissimo has carried out terminological works in various domains such as: aeronautics, computing and telecommunications, nuclear power, car engineering... and in many languages! If you need specific requirements to equip your company (with a minimum of 200 extensions workstations), contact us for more information.

Bilingual Business dictionary English <=> French - available for download:
The business dictionary offers more than 30,000 entries about different domains within the business industry:

• - Economy
• - Marketing
• - Sales
• - Distribution
• - Law
• - Accounting
• - Communication

Discover some extracts from the business dictionary

Bilingual Industrial dictionary English <=> French - available for download: With more than 17 000 terms, this dictionary is dedicated to the following sectors:

• - Mechanics, electronic, electricity...
• - Tools, spare parts, civil engineering, materials...
• - Mathematics, physics, chemistry...
• - Transport, building trade, public buildings and works sector, patents and norms, security..

Discover some extracts from the Industrial dictionary

Bilingual Medical dictionary English <=> French - available for download:
Including thousands of medical terms, it is the essential tool for people working in or for the medical sector (pharmacies, laboratories, doctors...).
Amongst the numerous subject matters to be found: molecular biology, cardiology, immunodeficiency disease, vascular disease, stomatology...
Discover some extracts from the Medical dictionary

A very efficient search feature

These dictionaries use an alphabetical and approximate search simultaneously you only need to type the first letters of the word you are looking for and the program displays the next entries in alphabetical order and a list of approximates (you can find easily misspelled words).
The thematic research allows you to specify the themes for more accurate results

 

An ergonomic tool

The display is in colors, the dictionaries are delivered with the Lexibase interface: the examples, the translations, the different contexts have their own defined color, the reading of the screen is fast and easy. You can clearly see the text thanks to the zoom option.

 

You can choose the language of interface: English, French, German or Spanish

 

A natural pronunciation of the words and expressions

This new version proposes a magic tool: the natural pronunciation of all words, expressions, and selected examples. This option can be activated, reinforcing the educational the educational value of the dictionaries that become important tools in learning foreign languages(available on CD-ROM version).

 

The Conjugator

Thanks to this function you can conjugate the verb you choose (in French or English)

Examples:

Extracts from Medical Dictionary:
English - French:
Machinery murmur => Souffle tunnelaire
Naegeli's acute monocytidoid leukemia => Leucémie aiguë à cellules monocytoïdes de Naegeli
Lobo's disease => Blastomycose chéloïdienne
Ziehen-oppenheim disease => Dysbasie lordosique progressive
French - English
Vaccin antimorbilleux => Measles virus vaccine
Avivement => Freshening
Bac de coloration => Stain dish
Ulcération d'un vaisseau sanguin => AngionomaMâchoire à clignement => Jaw-winking reflex

Extracts from Business Dictionary
English - French
Object code restricted license => Licence restreinte au code objet
Daily allowance => Indeminté journalière
Daily settlement indices => Indices de compensation
Procedural rules related to listing => Règles de procédure d'admission
French - English
Taux annuels glissants => Annual sliding rates
Report de l'échéance => Extension of the due date
Conditions de paiement => Terms of payment
Paiement à tempérament => Payments by installments
Annuité d'amortissement => Annual depreciation charge
Plainte en diffamation => Action for libel

Extracts from the Industrial Dictionary:
English - French
Zeolite-templating compound => Composé de structuration de zéolithe
Y-shaped socket wrench =>Clé à douille en Y
Dense wavelength division multiplexing => Multiplexage en longueur d'onde dense
Fan cooled => Refroidi par ventilateur
French - English
Procédé d'usinage par abrasion => Abrasive machining process
Accouplement à engrenage droit => Curvic-coupling
Bac de mélange a double isolation => Twin jacketed mixing tank
Jauge ultrasonique d'épaisseur => Ultrasonic thickness gage
Palans de levage => Lifting tackles

• PC Pentium or equivalent
• Windows 2000/NT4/XP/Vista
• 128 Mb of RAM
• 50 Mb of hard disk available per dictionary
• 100 Mb per added language for pronunciation module (only for the CD-ROM version)
• CD-ROM drive