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Webster 1913 Edition
Portal
1.
A door or gate; hence, a way of entrance or exit, especially one that is grand and imposing.
Thick with sparkling orient gems
The
The
portal
shone. Milton.
From out the fiery
portal
of the east. Shakespeare
2.
(Arch.)
(a)
The lesser gate, where there are two of different dimensions.
(b)
Formerly, a small square corner in a room separated from the rest of the apartment by wainscoting, forming a short passage to another apartment.
(c)
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.
3.
(Bridge Building)
The space, at one end, between opposite trusses when these are terminated by inclined braces.
4.
A prayer book or breviary; a portass.
[Obs.]
Portal bracing
(Bridge Building)
, a combination of struts and ties which lie in the plane of the inclined braces at a portal, serving to transfer wind pressure from the upper parts of the trusses to an abutment or pier of the bridge.
Por′tal
,Adj.
(Anat.)
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☞
Portal
is applied to other veins which break up into capillaries; as, the renal
. portal
veins in the frogWebster 1828 Edition
Portal
PORTAL
,Noun.
1.
A little square corner of a room, separated from the rest by a wainscot, and forming a short passage into a room.2.
A kind of arch of joiner's work before a door.3.
A gate; an opening for entrance; as the portals of heaven.Definition 2024
Portal
Portal
English
Proper noun
Portal
- A ghost town in California.
- A town in Georgia, North America.
- A municipality in North Dakota.
portal
portal
English
Portal of Chartres Cathedral
Noun
portal (plural portals)
- A grandiose and often lavish entrance.
- Milton
- Thick with sparkling orient gems / The portal shone.
- Milton
- An entrance, entry point, or means of entry.
- The local library, a portal of knowledge.
- (Internet) A website or page that acts as an entrance to other websites or pages on the Internet.
- The new medical portal has dozens of topical categories containing links to hundreds of sites.
- (anatomy) A short vein that carries blood into the liver.
- (fiction) A magical or technological doorway leading to another location, period in time or dimension.
- (architecture) A lesser gate, where there are two of different dimensions.
- (architecture) Formerly, a small square corner in a room separated from the rest of an apartment by wainscoting, forming a short passage to another apartment.
- (bridge-building) The space, at one end, between opposite trusses when these are terminated by inclined braces.
- A prayer book or breviary; a portass.
Derived terms
Translations
grandiose entrance
|
entry point
website
vein
|
Adjective
portal (not comparable)
Anagrams
See also
Catalan
Adjective
portal m, f (masculine and feminine plural portals)
Noun
portal m (plural portals)
Middle French
Alternative forms
Etymology
Noun
portal m (plural portaulx)
- gate (doorlike structure usually outside of a building or property)
References
- (fr) Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (portal)
Old French
Alternative forms
Etymology
Noun
portal m (oblique plural portaus or portax or portals, nominative singular portaus or portax or portals, nominative plural portal)
- gate (doorlike structure usually outside of a building or property)
References
- (fr) Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (portal)
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpɔrt̪al/
Noun
portal m inan
Declension
declension of portal
Portuguese
portal
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /puɾˈtaɫ/
Noun
portal m (plural portais)
Related terms
Romanian
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [porˈtal]
Noun
portal n (plural portaluri)
Declension
declension of portal