portal.
An entrance, entry point, or means of entry.
Meaning & usage
An entrance, entry point, or means of entry.
The local library, a portal of knowledge.
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.
The new medical portal has dozens of topical categories containing links to hundreds of sites.
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.)
I have already inputted my info on the portal.
A website or page that acts as an entrance to other websites or pages on the Internet. The existence of an account on an ePortal.
You need to have a portal to have a driver's license.
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.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English portal, porttol, from Old French portal and Medieval Latin portāle, from porta.
Of or relating to a porta, especially the porta of the liver.
the portal vein
Where this word comes from
From Middle English portal, porttol, from Old French portal and Medieval Latin portāle, from porta.
To use a portal (magical or technological doorway).
Where this word comes from
From Middle English portal, porttol, from Old French portal and Medieval Latin portāle, from porta.
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