What's the difference between door and portal?

Door


Definition:

  • (n.) An opening in the wall of a house or of an apartment, by which to go in and out; an entrance way.
  • (n.) The frame or barrier of boards, or other material, usually turning on hinges, by which an entrance way into a house or apartment is closed and opened.
  • (n.) Passage; means of approach or access.
  • (n.) An entrance way, but taken in the sense of the house or apartment to which it leads.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We were instantly refused entrance by the heavies at the door.
  • (2) He can open doors anywhere and they would at least have someone else to blame.
  • (3) The only other black woman I see in the building: washing dishes behind a door that was supposed to have been locked.
  • (4) Macy’s said more than 15,000 people were lined up outside its flagship New York City store when it opened its doors at 6pm on Thanksgiving.
  • (5) Clifford began representing the family after the media were "camped out on their door" earlier this year but said that he was not being paid by the family, added that the story should never have been in the paper.
  • (6) America is made up of immigrants and to shut the doors to others is just ludicrous.
  • (7) Another source inside the centre, quoted earlier on the Detained Voices blog, said detainees had banged on their doors throughout the lockdown.
  • (8) It's not good enough for some councils to respond to funding problems by cutting care behind closed doors.
  • (9) It was also chided for failing to roll out a 2011 pilot scheme to put doors on fridges in its stores.
  • (10) Back then, before her life took a darker turn, Holiday was able to leave the song, and its politics, at the door on the way out.
  • (11) Criminal court charges leave me no choice but to resign as a magistrate Read more “This is a terrible piece of legislation introduced through the back door,” he wrote.
  • (12) One day, out of the blue, there's a knock on the door.
  • (13) Attach self-adhesive foam strips, or metal strips with brushes or wipers attached, to window, door and loft-hatch frames (if you have sash windows, it's better to ask a professional to do it).
  • (14) At 7.40am Lord Feldman, the Conservative party chairman, knocked on the front door of No 10.
  • (15) The case of a 32-year-old man who suffered a blow to his left supraorbital region and eyebrow in an automatic closing door is reported to draw attention to the uncommon but trivial nature of this injury which may result in profound visual loss.
  • (16) A family who live next door to the Bredon Croft address said Masood used to turn up in Islamic dress and take their neighbours’ children to a mosque, though they did not know which one.
  • (17) I'm concerned, because it opens the door to all sorts of people with opinions that aren't sensible.
  • (18) This is done by scoring the septal cartilage in its basal attachment to the maxillary crest, providing a "swinging door" which can be sutured finally as desired.
  • (19) Matteo Renzi, the Italian leader who has argued it would be a disaster if Britain left the EU, suggested defensiveness about freedom of movement led to nowhere apart from opening the door to “right-wing xenophobia and nationalism” in Europe .
  • (20) She told Time magazine that “doors and windows were flying” after the blast.

Portal


Definition:

  • (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.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Maximum increases in portal plasma secretin concentrations of 143, 146 and 190% and maximum increases in VIP of 116, 155 and 147% after, respectively, intraduodenal 0.1 M NaHCO3, 0.1 M Na2CO3, and 0.025 M NaOH were found.
  • (2) The statistical T value calculated for the LP-TAE group showed that the administration of LP, the tumor size, intrahepatic metastasis, portal vein infiltration, and serum total bilirubin and alpha-fetoprotein levels significantly (P < 0.01) affected the patients' survival.
  • (3) In one of the cirrhotic patients, postmortem correlation of sonographic, angiographic, and pathological findings showed that the dilated vessels seen on sonography were cystic veins draining normally into the portal vein rather than portosystemic anastomoses.
  • (4) Portal venous blood flow was reduced by approximately 30%.
  • (5) The concomitant reduction in aortic pressure and increase in heart rate following total occlusion of the portal vein were most pronounced during the first weeks after stenosis, and were probably due to diminished venous return to the heart.
  • (6) In cancer of the pancreas head, cancer cells could invade the portal vein and perineural space of the celiac plexus, and metastasize to regional lymph nodes around the celiac axis.
  • (7) Immediate hemostasis was not influenced by the etiology of portal hypertension.
  • (8) Portal vein ligation resulted in testicular atrophy and low serum testosterone concentrations.
  • (9) In chronic active hepatitis and liver cirrhosis, both carbohydrate antigen 19-9 positive biliary ductular cells and factor VIII-related antigen positive endothelial cells were not only observed in the enlarged portal area but also extended into the parenchyma.
  • (10) Compared with the portal vein, lymphatic duct revealed a greater resistance to hypoxia.
  • (11) The presence of vital and sensitive organs such as the spinal cord, heart, and lungs makes curative radiotherapy of non-small cell lung cancer difficult to implement and necessitates use of oblique portals.
  • (12) Thirty patients were evaluated in a blind fashion to study the effect of oral propranolol on portal hypertension of varied aetiology.
  • (13) These results indicate that the pars tuberalis forms and secretes LH via the hypophyseal portal circulation.
  • (14) Pregnant females displayed a greater hyperinsulinemia both in the portal vein and the artery over the first hour.
  • (15) A low-sodium diet (0.05% Na+, control 0.5% Na+) significantly lowered stimulated [3H]NE release from portal vein and anterior hypothalamus in SHR and WKY at all three ages.
  • (16) Changes in mean portal venous and aortic blood glucose and lactate concentrations after an intragastric infusion of d-glucose to chronically catheterized rats (after regaining preoperative weight) were compared to those of acutely catheterized rats (1 h after catheter placement).
  • (17) On angiography portal-hepatic venous shunt was observed in one case.
  • (18) Terlipressin (Glypressin), a synthetic analog of vasopressin, induces arteriolar vasoconstriction which causes both a portal hypotensive effect and certain side-effects on the systemic circulation (elevated arterial pressure and reduced cardiac output).
  • (19) Portal lipogranulomas show a distinctive morphology with fat vacuoles surrounded by macrophages.
  • (20) A technique of diversion of the gastroduodenal vein in a canine model is described to compare long-term metabolic effects of systemic versus portal pancreatic endocrine drainage.