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.

Compare portal with other words:

furthermore vs. portal

portal vs. sportal

portal vs. sortal

portal vs. postal

mortal vs. portal

corresponding vs. portal

evolve vs. portal

client vs. portal

portal vs. vortex

door vs. portal

portal vs. static

gate vs. portal

machicolation vs. portal

porch vs. portal

portal vs. porthole

porta vs. portal

liver vs. portal

blood vs. portal

portal vs. vein

lavish vs. portal

entrance vs. portal

grandiose vs. portal