Thesaurus: portal
A door or gate; hence, a way of entrance or exit, especially one that is grand and imposing.
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Definitions
- n. A door or gate; hence, a way of entrance or exit, especially one that is grand and imposing.
- n. The lesser gate, where there are two of different dimensions.
- n. Formerly, a small square corner in a room separated from the rest of the apartment by wainscoting, forming a short passage to another apartment.
- n. By analogy with the French portail, used by recent writers for the whole architectural composition which surrounds and includes the doorways and porches of a church.
- n. The space, at one end, between opposite trusses when these are terminated by inclined braces.
- n. A prayer book or breviary; a portass.
- a. Of or pertaining to a porta, especially the porta of the liver; as, the portal vein, which enters the liver at the porta, and divides into capillaries after the manner of an artery.
- n. a grand and imposing entrance (often extended metaphorically)
- n. a site that the owner positions as an entrance to other sites on the internet
- n. a short vein that carries blood into the liver
- The space, at one end, between opposite trusses when these areterminated by inclined braces.