portal

[ pawr-tl, pohr- ]

/ ˈpɔr tl, ˈpoʊr- /

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noun

a door, gate, or entrance, especially one of imposing appearance, as to a palace.

an iron or steel bent for bracing a framed structure, having curved braces between the vertical members and a horizontal member at the top.

an entrance to a tunnel or mine.

Computers. a website that functions as an entry point to the internet, as by providing useful content and linking to various sites and features on the World Wide Web.

OTHER WORDS FOR portal

1 entranceway, doorway, entry, threshold.

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Origin of portal

First recorded in 1300–50; Middle English portale, from Medieval Latin, noun use of neuter of portālis “of a gate.” See portal²

OTHER WORDS FROM portal

portaled, portalled, adjective

Words nearby portal

Port Adelaide, Portadown, portage, Portage la Prairie, Portakabin, portal, Port Alberni, portal circulation, portal frame, portal system, portal-to-portal

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portal²

[ pawr-tl, pohr- ]

/ ˈpɔr tl, ˈpoʊr- /

Anatomy

adjective

noting or pertaining to the transverse fissure of the liver.

noun

portal vein.

Origin of portal

First recorded in 1605–15, portal is from the Medieval Latin word portālis of a gate. See port⁴, -al¹

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How to use portal in a sentence

The least speculative notions do not involve anything like portals to other universes or wildly exotic objects appearing in their stead.
Schrödinger’s Cat When Nobody Is Looking - Issue 89: The Dark Side|Daniel Sudarsky|August 26, 2020|Nautilus
A local Knowledge Panel, which Google also refers to as a “Business Profile,” acts as your business’ portal on the search results page.
How to optimize your Google local Knowledge Panel|George Nguyen|August 13, 2020|Search Engine Land
With little hope of revival any time soon, companies that provide cargo-handling services to airlines and portals that sell air tickets are struggling to pay employee salaries and manage overheads.
In India’s aviation industry, airlines aren’t the only losers|Niharika Sharma|August 3, 2020|Quartz
Last week, though, UCSD researchers who’ve been interested in the privacy implications of the data attempted to gain access to the city’s portal and couldn’t.
Smart Streetlights Are Now Exclusively a Tool for Police|Jesse Marx|July 20, 2020|Voice of San Diego

The plus is that users will often visit the site using both search queries and aggregators or news portals.
How to increase organic traffic: 14 Practical tips|Inna Yatsyna|July 6, 2020|Search Engine Watch
The moment where they enter the spirit portal symbolizes their evolution from being friends to being a couple.
Yep, Korra and Asami Went in the Spirit Portal and Probably Kissed|Melissa Leon|December 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Finally, we came to the ornately carved temple portal itself, adorned with an image of a snake to its side.
Fighting Back With Faith: Inside the Yezidis’ Iraqi Temple|Michael Luongo|August 21, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The portal will have a system of simultaneous translation in three languages including English.
Brazil’s World Cup Is An Expensive, Exploitative Nightmare|Vac Verikaitis|May 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Bonus Tip: Be aware of Equity Crowdfunding Coming to a Portal Near You!
How to Win at Crowdfunding|Bianca Goodloe|April 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
I was very young and I thought that the whole experience was a wonderful adventure and a glimmering portal to the future.
The New Fear of Flying After MH370|Clive Irving|March 31, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The first subject chosen by her for a picture was the "Portal of the Church of the Magdalene."
Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D.|Clara Erskine Clement
The gigantic pylon, its shoulders breaking the sky four-square far overhead, seemed the prodigious portal of another world.
The Wave|Algernon Blackwood
Beside autocratic kingship it shines with a white light; it is obviously the portal of the future.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice|Stephen Leacock
How can it have happened that terms are still wanting to express the portal of all the sciences?
A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 1 (of 10)|Franois-Marie Arouet (AKA Voltaire)
Nevertheless she had to pass through the dark portal of death before she was assumed, body and soul, into heaven.
Mary, Help of Christians|Various

British Dictionary definitions for portal

portal

/ (ˈpɔːtəl) /

noun

an entrance, gateway, or doorway, esp one that is large and impressive

any entrance or access to a place

computing an internet site providing links to other sites

adjective

anatomy

of or relating to a portal veinhepatic portal system
of or relating to a porta

Word Origin for portal

C14: via Old French from Medieval Latin portāle, from Latin porta gate, entrance

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Cultural definitions for portal

portal

A Web site that provides a gateway to other Web sites.

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