portal
Pronunciation: /ˈpɔːtl̩/
The English word “portal” has 16 meanings listed here.
noun
- An entrance, entry point, or means of entry.
- A large primary adit as the main entrance to a mine.
- A website or page that acts as an entrance to other websites or pages on the Internet.
- An ePortal. (a web-based platform that serves as a gateway to various resources, services, or information, usually tailored for specific organizational or user needs.)
- The existence of an account on an ePortal.
- A short artery that carries blood into the liver.
- A magical or technological aperture leading to another location, period in time, or dimension.
- A lesser gate, where there are two of different dimensions.
- Formerly, a small square corner in a room separated from the rest of an apartment by wainscoting, forming a short passage to another apartment.
- A grandiose and often lavish entrance.
- The space, at one end, between opposite trusses when these are terminated by inclined braces.
- A prayer book or breviary; a portass.
- The NCAA transfer portal, a database and compliance tool designed to facilitate student-athletes who wish to change schools.
- A connecting window between volumes, in portal rendering.
adjective
verb
- To use a portal (magical or technological doorway).
Etymology
From Middle English portal, porttol, from Old French portal and Medieval Latin portāle, from porta.
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