What's the difference between gate and portal?

Gate


Definition:

  • (n.) A large door or passageway in the wall of a city, of an inclosed field or place, or of a grand edifice, etc.; also, the movable structure of timber, metal, etc., by which the passage can be closed.
  • (n.) An opening for passage in any inclosing wall, fence, or barrier; or the suspended framework which closes or opens a passage. Also, figuratively, a means or way of entrance or of exit.
  • (n.) A door, valve, or other device, for stopping the passage of water through a dam, lock, pipe, etc.
  • (n.) The places which command the entrances or access; hence, place of vantage; power; might.
  • (n.) In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into.
  • (n.) The channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mold; the ingate.
  • (n.) The waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece.
  • (v. t.) To supply with a gate.
  • (v. t.) To punish by requiring to be within the gates at an earlier hour than usual.
  • (n.) A way; a path; a road; a street (as in Highgate).
  • (n.) Manner; gait.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Modulation of the voltage-gated K+ conductance in T-lymphocytes by substance P was examined.
  • (2) She said that even as she approached the gates, she was debating with the boy’s father whether to let the first-grader enter.
  • (3) The Brandenburg Gate was lit up in the colours of the German flag.
  • (4) The committee is chaired by John Thompson, the board's lead independent director, and includes Microsoft founder and chairman, Bill Gates, as well as other board members Chuck Noski and Steve Luczo.
  • (5) Right ventricular volumes were determined in 12 patients with different levels of right and left ventricular function by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) using an ECG gated multisection technique in planes perpendicular to the diastolic position of the interventricular septum.
  • (6) Britain has been the Gates foundation’s second largest recipient, receiving 25 grants worth $156m since 2003.
  • (7) A method using selective saturation pulses and gated spin-echo MRI automatically corrects for this motion and thus eliminates misregistration artifact from regional function analysis.
  • (8) Gated blood pool images were stored in modified left anterior oblique views by the multiple gated method (28 frames per beat) after the in vivo labeling of erythrocytes using 25 mCi 99m-Tc.
  • (9) Four days after a 5 minute bilateral carotid artery occlusion, receptor autoradiography was performed to measure the binding of [35S]t-butylbicyclophosphorothionate (TBPS) to the GABA-gated chloride channel.
  • (10) Similar responses were obtained with gated noise bursts and by pauses in a series of clicks.
  • (11) The estimated forward (k) and backward (1) rate constants are: 2.45 x I05 M-1 s- and 0.23 x 103 s-1, respectively, for k and I for the case when the drug is trapped by both activation and inactivation gates, and 3.58 x 105 M-l s-l and 4.15 x 10-3 S-l for the case when the drug is not trapped.
  • (12) p-NCS-TBOB should prove useful in electrophysiological and biochemical studies examining the properties of GABA-gated Cl- channels.
  • (13) The involvement of the endothelium and the role of change in membrane potential are evaluated and lead to the conclusion that pressure and flow effects do not depend exclusively on the release of endothelial factors nor the activation of voltage-gated Ca2+ channels.
  • (14) Norwich Ownership Delia Smith and her husband Michael Wynn Jones own 53.1% of the club’s shares; deputy chairman Michael Foulger owns approximately 16% Gate receipts £12m Broadcasting and media £70m Catering £4m Commercial & other income £12m Net debt Not stated; £2.7m bank overdraft, no directors’ loans.
  • (15) This conductance is activated when the cis side is made positive, with an apparent gating charge of 3.
  • (16) In addition to improved image quality, the characteristics of 99mTc sestamibi allow gated planar or SPECT perfusion images to be obtained.
  • (17) Perijunctional Na+ channels had the same voltage dependence, gating kinetics and sensitivity to tetrodotoxin as extrajunctional Na+ channels, suggesting that these cells express a single type of Na+ channel.
  • (18) Charge conservation analysis explicitly includes the gating charge when applied in the laboratory frame.
  • (19) We found the incorporated channels to be insensitive to calcium and octanol, and in most cases to pH in the range of 5-7, suggesting that either these agents do not interact directly with the junctional channels or that the corresponding gating regions are inactivated during the isolation and reconstitution procedures.
  • (20) "You could be in an open-world single-player environment where you can go up to a gate and when you enter that base, you're walking into a multiplayer map.

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.

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