What's the difference between entrance and portico?

Entrance


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of entering or going into; ingress; as, the entrance of a person into a house or an apartment; hence, the act of taking possession, as of property, or of office; as, the entrance of an heir upon his inheritance, or of a magistrate into office.
  • (n.) Liberty, power, or permission to enter; as, to give entrance to friends.
  • (n.) The passage, door, or gate, for entering.
  • (n.) The entering upon; the beginning, or that with which the beginning is made; the commencement; initiation; as, a difficult entrance into business.
  • (n.) The causing to be entered upon a register, as a ship or goods, at a customhouse; an entering; as, his entrance of the arrival was made the same day.
  • (n.) The angle which the bow of a vessel makes with the water at the water line.
  • (n.) The bow, or entire wedgelike forepart of a vessel, below the water line.
  • (v. t.) To put into a trance; to make insensible to present objects.
  • (v. t.) To put into an ecstasy; to ravish with delight or wonder; to enrapture; to charm.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We were instantly refused entrance by the heavies at the door.
  • (2) A facility for keeping chickens free of Marek's disease (MD) was obtained by adopting a system of filtered air under positive pressure (FAPP) for ventilation, and by imposing restrictions on entrance of articles, materials and personnel.
  • (3) In every center the average whole-breast dose to a reference organ (5 cm thick, composed of 50% fat + 50% water) was calculated on the basis of entrance exposure, HVL, and focus-skin distance; in 63.2% of the centers doses less than 0.15 cGy were employed.
  • (4) A catheter was placed in the epidural space, with entrance through L3-L4 and its extreme in L1.
  • (5) But despite gendarmes keeping watch at entrances to the village, one local police officer said there were five times more journalists than security forces.
  • (6) A line iterative technique is described to solve numerically the resulting coupled system of nonlinear partial differential equations with physiologically relevant boundary and entrance conditions.
  • (7) Motile sperm were seen at the uterine entrance to the uterotubal junction (UTJ) in all females at 1-2 h pc, but in fewer females at later times.
  • (8) Many businessmen like it.” At the entrance to Jiang’s swish showroom, customers are welcomed by posters of a cigar-smoking Winston Churchill and the Queen Mother, standing beside Land Rovers.
  • (9) Various tests to assess arthritis were performed upon each patient's entrance into the study and at specified intervals throughout the 24-month study period.
  • (10) UNCONFIRMED reports of men wounded March 18, 2014 Ed Flanagan (@edmundflanagan) Entrance to base.
  • (11) The police officers guarding the entrance to Japan's nuclear evacuation zone barely glance at Yukio Yamamoto's permit before waving him through.
  • (12) Hypoxemia was progressive from the time of entrance of the bronchoscope into the respiratory tree and continued into the immediate postbronchoscopic period when the mean fall was about 16 mm Hg.
  • (13) Rather, they will likely restrict their entrance by way of the most traditional route.
  • (14) The entrance window is 12 microns Melinex foil with a thin aluminium surface.
  • (15) The vesicles exhibited apparent "entrance" I- counterflow but no apparent Na+-dependent I- transport activity.
  • (16) Main issues of health entrancing job design are: (1) Essential approaches of prevention are to be reevaluated.
  • (17) A worker gestures at one of the entrances of the Lisbon harbour during a strike by Portuguese harbour workers, in Lisbon September 17, 2012.
  • (18) Near the entrance was a sprawling camp kitchen, with mountains of supplies, indoor and outdoor facilities and open fires on which some of the cooking was done, and all of the gigantic vats of coffee seemed to be boiled.
  • (19) These results are consistent with the hypothesis that the physiological activity observed with both PAES and PAESe may be related to their ability to gain entrance to adrenergic neurons and decrease norepinephrine synthesis within neurotransmitter storage vesicles.
  • (20) Spectral differences in image size are proportional to the eye's longitudinal chromatic aberration and the axial distance between the entrance pupil and nodal point.

Portico


Definition:

  • (n.) A colonnade or covered ambulatory, especially in classical styles of architecture; usually, a colonnade at the entrance of a building.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Another officer posted on the portico outside the wooden White House doors mistakenly assumed the doors were locked.
  • (2) In a letter to a corporation official, Cottam wrote: "Desecration: graffiti have been scratched and painted on to the great west doors of the cathedral, the chapter house door and most notably a sacrilegious message painted on to the restored pillars of the west portico.
  • (3) In its current state there is some confusion: what the architecture strongly suggests is the front door, beneath a boldly overhanging portico, is not in fact the front door, and visitors have to seek out a more obscure entrance around the side.
  • (4) The Opera and Ballet Theatre – a staggering work of architecture whose irregular, angled forms flowing down to the river could have been built yesterday – is now screened from view by structures that try (with impressive ineptitude) to look like they were built 2,000 years ago, with mock-19th century candelabras and a Roman portico with allegorical figures in what looks like gold lame.
  • (5) The Rotunda, with its famous Dome Room and outside porticos, continues to receive critical acclaim for its architectural design.
  • (6) There are also three nods for jazz artists, namely Polar Bear’s In Each And Every One, GoGo Penguin’s v2.0 and First Mind by Nick Mulvey, who was formerly a member of previous nominees Portico Quartet.
  • (7) Aside from rock duo Royal Blood and indie band Bombay Bicycle Club – whose So Long, See You Tomorrow is a rather more inventive and interesting album than their nondescript image suggests – the rest of the list concentrates largely on albums by artists who have yet to really gain mass attention: poet Kate Tempest's debut for independent hip-hop label Big Dada; Nick Mulvey, a former member of Mercury-nominated jazz collective Portico Quartet turned singer-songwriter; electronic auteur East India Youth; idiosyncratic Scottish hip-hop trio Young Fathers; FKA Twigs, whose avant-garde take on R'n'B might have been conceived with the express intention of getting on the Mercury shortlist.
  • (8) The influence of Italian colonists may still be seen in the dilapidated stone porticos of Asmara’s central market and the disused railway line running down to the Red Sea coast.
  • (9) The beige modern building overlooks a playground; its entrance is a grand remnant from an older structure, with columns and a portico; the ground floor is home to classrooms and 326 pupils.
  • (10) Yes, he and the RIBA might agree on matters of sustainability, and will work together on these in the future, yet at heart there remains as gap as wide as the portico of the west front of St Paul's Cathedral.
  • (11) Like other Britons in failing health who choose to depart through the modernist portico leading to the Dignitas organisation in a Zurich apartment, their deaths last Friday triggered a police inquiry.
  • (12) Railway locomotives of the 1830s were often decked out in neoclassical or gothic ornament designed to disguise their rude mechanical parts, while Britain's first mainline trunk railway, the London to Birmingham, concealed its terminus at Euston behind a giant Greek Doric portico.
  • (13) While the restaurant stretches over a bright, modern two-floor dining room, the place to be is sitting beneath the vaulted portico at one of the tables set between each of the marble columns, looking out over the garden and the palace’s ornate dome.
  • (14) The public greetings were measured and diplomatically warm – Melania Trump handing over a blue Tiffany gift box under the North Portico.
  • (15) Mark Knoller (@markknoller) In pouring rain, GOP Senators boarding their buses parked in front of the North Portico.
  • (16) Her noodle stall is sheltered from the rain by the vast portico of a government bank, built in the 1930s by the British when Burma was part of the empire.
  • (17) The breach set off security alarms but Gonzalez outran pursuing officers, ignoring their commands that he stop, and entered the North Portico doors.
  • (18) But now, in a moment of jaw-dropping trickery, the architecture is joining in the fun: the Victorian market portico appears to have been ripped away from its colonnade, and left hanging in thin air.
  • (19) Yet standing on the West Portico of the Capitol, on the spot where John F Kennedy spoke 56 years ago, he unfurled the slogan of Lindbergh and Buchanan as the mission of his presidency.
  • (20) The account differed starkly from a press release issued by the secret service theday after the incident, which merely said Gonzalez was “physically apprehended after entering the White House North Portico doors”.