What are term bases in CAT tools

In CAT tools, term bases are databases that consist of pairs of multilingual terms stored in a list. They work like glossaries - you can access them when your translation requires it.

Term bases are often used to enforce terminology (words and phrases) that translators are required to translate in a particular way.

Term bases in memoQ translator pro

To go to the Term bases section, open a project and click Translation memories on the left side of the screen. Then, on the top part of the screen, you can:

click Create/Use New to create a new term base to be used in the project
click Register Local to register a local term base for memoQ to use in projects (the preferred file formats are .mtb and .xml)
click Properties to display the properties of the selected term base
click Delete to delete the selected term base
click Use In Project to use the selected term base in a particular project
once you have done that, to remove the selected term base from a particular project, click Remove From Project
click As Target For New Terms to set the selected term base as the target for new terms - terms added with the Quick Add (Ctrl+Q) command will be added there
click Raise Rank to raise the rank of the selected term base, which affects how term bases are displayed
conversely, click Lower Rank to lower the rank of the selected term base
click Edit to open and edit the selected term base
click Import Terminology to import a file (.csv, .txt, .tsv, .tmx, .xls, .xlsx, .xml, or .tbx)
click Export Terminology to export the selected term base to a .csv, .xlsx, or .xml file
click Repair Resource to repair the term base to improve lookup speed
click Synchronize Online to synchronise the term base by creating or updating a local copy

Term bases in Trados Studio

Open a text file. In the upper right corner of the Editor section you can see the Term Recognition section. There you can:

click the first icon to view term details of the selected the term base
click the second icon to insert term translations
click the third icon to configure the hitlist settings
click the fourth icon to configure the term base settings

Here you can:

click Create to a create a new file-based term base
click Use to open a file-based term base (the preferred file types are .sdltb and .mdb), a server-based term base, or a cloud-based terminology
click Settings to configure the settings of the term base
click the arrows to move the term bases up and down
clcik Remove to remove the selected term base
click Set default to set the selected term base as the default one

Apart from the Term Recognition section, you can also go to the Termbase Search section to search for particular items.

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Term bases in memoQ translator pro