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1. Select a document and your preferred document language.
2. Use the first and second tabs on the right and the +/- signs to navigate through the thesaurus.
3. Drag and drop any desired thesaurus entry onto any headline of your document.
4. Use the search function to find specific terms and phrases in all languages. Search results are displayed under the third and fourth tabs.
5. Translate your document into other DISCO languages by selecting another language.
6. Save your document in XML format or export directly to a Word 2007-compatible format.

Note: Phrases are currently limited to four domain-specific sectors and portions of non-domain-specific skills and competences.
For further details, please see the 'Help' section.






  • non domain specific skills and competences
    • artistic skills and competencesaddinfo
      • acting talentaddinfo
      • aesthetic sensitivityaddinfo
      • creativityaddinfo
      • imitative abilityaddinfo
      • musicalityaddinfo
      • musical talentaddinfo
      • talent for painting and drawingaddinfo
      • trend and fashion-consciousnessaddinfo
    • basic action verbsaddinfo
    • computer skills and competencesaddinfo
      • ability to learn new software applicationsaddinfo
      • basic internet knowledgeaddinfo
      • database management systemsaddinfo
      • data protection and data security systemsaddinfo
      • e-mail skills and competencesaddinfo
      • knowledge of specific software applicationsaddinfo
      • managing filesaddinfo
      • middlewareaddinfo
      • network management softwareaddinfo
      • office software knowledgeaddinfo
      • software development toolsaddinfo
      • special operating systems and server softwareaddinfo
    • driving licencesaddinfo
      • busesaddinfo
      • driving licences for special vehiclesaddinfo
      • heavy goods vehiclesaddinfo
      • motorcycles and light motorcyclesaddinfo
      • private carsaddinfo
    • languagesaddinfo
    • managerial and organisational skillsaddinfo
      • ability to coordinateaddinfo
      • ability to organize oneselfaddinfo
      • capable of multitaskingaddinfo
      • decision-making competenceaddinfo
      • entrepreneurial thinkingaddinfo
      • leadership skillsaddinfo
      • management of financial resourcesaddinfo
      • management of material resourcesaddinfo
      • management of personnel resourcesaddinfo
      • management of work activitiesaddinfo
      • management techniquesaddinfo
      • monitoring of organizational performance standardsaddinfo
      • operative planningaddinfo
      • risk-taking behavioraddinfo
      • self-sufficiencyaddinfo
      • setting standardsaddinfo
      • setting targetsaddinfo
      • strategic planningaddinfo
      • supervision skillsaddinfo
      • time management skillsaddinfo
    • materials, tools, products and softwareaddinfo
      • antiquesaddinfo
      • chemist's shop goodsaddinfo
      • clocks, watches, jewellery, gold and silver articlesaddinfo
      • clothingaddinfo
      • CNC machinesaddinfo
      • computer systemsaddinfo
      • construction machinesaddinfo
      • construction materialsaddinfo
      • data storage, sound, photo and video devicesaddinfo
      • data storage, sound, photo- and video devicesaddinfo
      • decorative materialsaddinfo
      • do-it-yourself productsaddinfo
      • drugsaddinfo
      • electrical and electronic productsaddinfo
      • electrical goodsaddinfo
      • flooring materialsaddinfo
      • foodaddinfo
      • footwear and shoe care productsaddinfo
      • furnitureaddinfo
      • gardening suppliesaddinfo
      • gauges+G2addinfo
      • giftsaddinfo
      • glassaddinfo
      • glass and porcelainaddinfo
      • household goodsaddinfo
      • ironmongery, tools, machineryaddinfo
      • IT productsaddinfo
      • leather goodsaddinfo
      • lightingaddinfo
      • metalsaddinfo
      • motor vehicle parts and accessoriesaddinfo
      • musical instrumentsaddinfo
      • network components (IT)addinfo
      • paints and varnishesaddinfo
      • pets, pet food and pet accessoriesaddinfo
      • photographic, film and video equipmentaddinfo
      • printing machineryaddinfo
      • publishing productsaddinfo
      • sanitary equipment and bathroom accessoriesaddinfo
      • sports equipmentaddinfo
      • stationery and office suppliesaddinfo
      • stoneaddinfo
      • synthetic materialsaddinfo
      • teaching materialsaddinfo
      • tobaccoaddinfo
      • toiletriesaddinfo
      • toysaddinfo
      • two-wheeled vehiclesaddinfo
      • wallpapers and household textilesaddinfo
      • woodaddinfo
      • wood and wooden articlesaddinfo
    • personal skills and competencesaddinfo
      • cogntitive skills and problem solving abilityaddinfo
      • personal skills and abilitiesaddinfo
      • physical attributes and abilitiesaddinfo
    • social and communication skills and competencesaddinfo
      • basic competence in verbal expressionaddinfo
      • clear and distinct dictionaddinfo
      • client supportaddinfo
      • communication in Englishaddinfo
      • communication in foreign languagesaddinfo
      • competence in professional communicationaddinfo
      • competence in verbal expressionaddinfo
      • competence in written expressionaddinfo
      • effective questioningaddinfo
      • establishing contactsaddinfo
      • fostering contactsaddinfo
      • intercultural competenceaddinfo
      • interviewingaddinfo
      • listening comprehensionaddinfo
      • negotiation skilladdinfo
      • oral comprehensionaddinfo
      • participate actively in discussionsaddinfo
      • participate in meetingsaddinfo
      • presentation techniquesaddinfo
      • rhetorical skillsaddinfo
      • service orientationaddinfo
      • teaching abilityaddinfo
      • team-working skillsaddinfo
  • domain specific skills and competences
    • agriculture, forestry and fisheryaddinfo
      • agricultureaddinfo
      • animal careaddinfo
      • fishing industryaddinfo
      • florist's tradeaddinfo
      • forestry and huntingaddinfo
      • horticultureaddinfo
      • nature protection and landscape conservationaddinfo
      • viticultureaddinfo
    • architecture and buildingaddinfo
      • architectural and landscape designaddinfo
      • building services engineeringaddinfo
      • building site preparationaddinfo
      • carcass and interior completionaddinfo
      • civil engineering project planningaddinfo
      • refurbishment and renovation of existing buildingsaddinfo
      • setting up building structuresaddinfo
      • specialisation in certain construction areasaddinfo
      • surveyingaddinfo
    • artsaddinfo
      • AV mediaaddinfo
      • bookbindingaddinfo
      • craftworkaddinfo
      • cultural and media managementaddinfo
      • design (arts)addinfo
      • fine artsaddinfo
      • general artistic knowledge and skillsaddinfo
      • musical instrument making and maintenanceaddinfo
      • music and performing artsaddinfo
      • photographyaddinfo
      • prepressaddinfo
      • printaddinfo
      • publishing and literatureaddinfo
      • restoration (works of art, historical objects)addinfo
      • stage design and event technologyaddinfo
    • business and administrationaddinfo
      • banking and related financial servicesaddinfo
      • finance, accountancy and management accountingaddinfo
      • human resource managementaddinfo
      • insuranceaddinfo
      • managementaddinfo
      • management consulting, tax consultancy, auditingaddinfo
      • marketing, advertising, PRaddinfo
      • office and administrationaddinfo
      • public administration, civil serviceaddinfo
      • purchasing, procurement, logistics, inventory managementaddinfo
      • real estateaddinfo
      • sales and distributionaddinfo
      • social insuranceaddinfo
      • tradeaddinfo
    • computingaddinfo
      • database knowledgeaddinfo
      • documentation (IT)addinfo
      • information securityaddinfo
      • Internet and multimediaaddinfo
      • IT administrationaddinfo
      • IT analysisaddinfo
      • IT consultancyaddinfo
      • IT installation and configurationaddinfo
      • IT licensesaddinfo
      • IT project managementaddinfo
      • IT supportaddinfo
      • IT trainingaddinfo
      • network technology (IT)addinfo
      • operating systemsaddinfo
      • Programmingaddinfo
      • software developmentaddinfo
      • special IT fieldsaddinfo
      • testing (IT)addinfo
    • educationaddinfo
      • educational and training institutions, school levelsaddinfo
      • educational policy, administration and management in the field of education and instructionaddinfo
      • educational scienceaddinfo
      • general knowledge in education and trainingaddinfo
      • pedagogy and teaching methodologyaddinfo
      • private tutoringaddinfo
      • residential careaddinfo
    • electrical engineeringaddinfo
      • communications engineeringaddinfo
      • electrical circuit technologyaddinfo
      • electrical energy technologyaddinfo
      • electrical installation technologyaddinfo
      • electroacousticsaddinfo
      • electromagnetic compatibilityaddinfo
      • electronicsaddinfo
      • general knowledge of electrical engineeringaddinfo
      • measurement technologyaddinfo
      • mechatronicsaddinfo
      • open and closed loop control technologyaddinfo
      • special applications of electrical engineeringaddinfo
    • environmental protectionaddinfo
      • air pollution controladdinfo
      • air pollution control technologyaddinfo
      • climate protectionaddinfo
      • energy efficiencyaddinfo
      • energy saving technologyaddinfo
      • environmental analysisaddinfo
      • environmental informationaddinfo
      • environmental managementaddinfo
      • environmental protection in the enterpriseaddinfo
      • environmental regulationsaddinfo
      • environmental science and technologyaddinfo
      • landscape conservation and environmental remediationaddinfo
      • nature protectionaddinfo
      • noise protectionaddinfo
      • pollutant researchaddinfo
      • renewable energiesaddinfo
      • sewage engineeringaddinfo
      • soil protectionaddinfo
      • waste managementaddinfo
      • water protection and managementaddinfo
    • healthaddinfo
      • diagnostic and medical imaging techniquesaddinfo
      • forms of therapyaddinfo
      • general knowledge of health and medicineaddinfo
      • health service managementaddinfo
      • health technologyaddinfo
      • medical documentationaddinfo
      • medical information systemsaddinfo
      • medical knowledgeaddinfo
      • medical laboratory servicesaddinfo
      • paramedical careaddinfo
      • pharmaceuticsaddinfo
      • public healthaddinfo
    • humanitiesaddinfo
      • archaeologyaddinfo
      • auxiliary sciences of historyaddinfo
      • historyaddinfo
      • history of artaddinfo
      • linguistics and cultural studiesaddinfo
      • literatureaddinfo
      • musicologyaddinfo
      • philosophyaddinfo
      • religion and theologyaddinfo
      • theatre studiesaddinfo
      • translating and interpretingaddinfo
    • journalism and informationaddinfo
      • archives, libraries and museumsaddinfo
      • documentationaddinfo
      • journalismaddinfo
    • lawaddinfo
      • asylum and aliens lawaddinfo
      • civil lawaddinfo
      • commercial lawaddinfo
      • construction lawaddinfo
      • consumer lawaddinfo
      • copyright lawaddinfo
      • criminal lawaddinfo
      • deploying standard legal softwareaddinfo
      • employment and social law, public services lawaddinfo
      • enforcement lawaddinfo
      • environment lawaddinfo
      • European lawaddinfo
      • financial lawaddinfo
      • general legal knowledgeaddinfo
      • international lawaddinfo
      • jurisdictionaddinfo
      • law of contractsaddinfo
      • legal adviceaddinfo
      • legal exercise of officeaddinfo
      • liability and warranty lawaddinfo
      • media lawaddinfo
      • medical lawaddinfo
      • military lawaddinfo
      • procedural lawaddinfo
      • public lawaddinfo
      • tax lawaddinfo
      • transport lawaddinfo
    • life sciencesaddinfo
      • applied biology and interdisciplinary subject area of biologyaddinfo
      • botanyaddinfo
      • ecologyaddinfo
      • general biologyaddinfo
      • human biologyaddinfo
      • methods and processes of life sciencesaddinfo
      • microbiologyaddinfo
      • zoologyaddinfo
    • manufacturing and processing materialsaddinfo
      • ceramic technologyaddinfo
      • extraction and manufacture of building materialsaddinfo
      • extraction of crude oiladdinfo
      • glass manufacture and processingaddinfo
      • manufacture of packaging materialsaddinfo
      • miningaddinfo
      • natural gas extractionaddinfo
      • plastics and rubber technologyaddinfo
      • production of paper, board and cardboardaddinfo
      • sports equipment manufactureaddinfo
      • stone working and processingaddinfo
      • wood working and processingaddinfo
    • manufacturing and processing of foodaddinfo
      • bakers and confectioners tradeaddinfo
      • beverage productionaddinfo
      • butcher's shopaddinfo
      • cocoa processingaddinfo
      • coffee processingaddinfo
      • dairyaddinfo
      • fish processingaddinfo
      • fruit processingaddinfo
      • general food technologyaddinfo
      • milling industryaddinfo
      • production of coffeeaddinfo
      • production of dietary supplementsaddinfo
      • production of dietetic foodaddinfo
      • production of edible fatsaddinfo
      • production of edible oilsaddinfo
      • production of gourmet foodsaddinfo
      • production of herbs and spicesaddinfo
      • production of infants' and children's foodaddinfo
      • production of mayonnaiseaddinfo
      • sugar productionaddinfo
      • tea productionaddinfo
      • tobacco processingaddinfo
      • vegetable processingaddinfo
      • vinegar productionaddinfo
    • manufacturing and processing of textiles, clothes, footwear, leatheraddinfo
      • doing upholsteryaddinfo
      • fashion designaddinfo
      • fur and hide processingaddinfo
      • knitted and crocheted goodsaddinfo
      • leather working and treatmentaddinfo
      • production of hats and capsaddinfo
      • production of nonwoven fabricsaddinfo
      • production of tufted goodsaddinfo
      • roperyaddinfo
      • saddlery and leather goods productionaddinfo
      • sail-makingaddinfo
      • shoe makingaddinfo
      • spinning milladdinfo
      • tailoring and clothing technologyaddinfo
      • tent and awning manufactureaddinfo
      • textile finishingaddinfo
      • weavingaddinfo
    • mathematics and statisticsaddinfo
    • metal processing and mechanical engineeringaddinfo
      • automotive engineeringaddinfo
      • mechanical and plant engineering, tool makingaddinfo
      • metal engineeringaddinfo
      • metal processingaddinfo
      • metal productionaddinfo
      • metal surface treatmentaddinfo
      • opticsaddinfo
      • power engineeringaddinfo
      • precision engineeringaddinfo
      • supply engineeringaddinfo
      • technical drawingaddinfo
    • personal servicesaddinfo
      • body careaddinfo
      • cleaningaddinfo
      • domestic economyaddinfo
      • gastronomyaddinfo
      • hotel business and accommodationaddinfo
      • organising and conducting of trade fairs, conventions and eventsaddinfo
      • pool attendant activitiesaddinfo
      • sport and leisureaddinfo
      • tourismaddinfo
      • undertakersaddinfo
    • physical sciencesaddinfo
    • security servicesaddinfo
      • airport securityaddinfo
      • border protectionaddinfo
      • catastrophe protectionaddinfo
      • danger aversionaddinfo
      • detective agencyaddinfo
      • dog handlingaddinfo
      • firefighting and fire protectionaddinfo
      • life-guard serviceaddinfo
      • meeting protectionaddinfo
      • military serviceaddinfo
      • mountain rescue serviceaddinfo
      • object securityaddinfo
      • police serviceaddinfo
      • private personal securityaddinfo
      • risk analysisaddinfo
      • security driving trainingaddinfo
      • self-defenceaddinfo
      • site protectionaddinfo
      • surveillanceaddinfo
      • transport protectionaddinfo
      • use of firearmsaddinfo
    • social and behavioral scienceaddinfo
      • anthropologyaddinfo
      • economicsaddinfo
      • empirical social researchaddinfo
      • ethnologyaddinfo
      • gender researchaddinfo
      • human geographyaddinfo
      • political scienceaddinfo
      • psychology (behavioral science)addinfo
      • sociologyaddinfo
    • social servicesaddinfo
      • general knowledge of social servicesaddinfo
      • mediationaddinfo
      • social and educational supportaddinfo
      • social managementaddinfo
      • social pedagogical guidanceaddinfo
      • supervisionaddinfo
    • transport servicesaddinfo
      • air trafficaddinfo
      • forwardingaddinfo
      • navigationaddinfo
      • postal, courier and delivery servicesaddinfo
      • railway transportationaddinfo
      • road trafficaddinfo
    • veterinaryaddinfo
      • animal protectionaddinfo
      • animal psychologyaddinfo
      • forensic veterinary medicineaddinfo
      • laboratory animal scienceaddinfo
      • meat inspection and controladdinfo
      • taxidermyaddinfo
      • treatment of animal diseasesaddinfo
      • tropical veterinary medicineaddinfo
      • veterinary specialisationaddinfo