portal

plural portals

1. An entrance, entry point, or means of entry.

   The local library, a portal of knowledge.

   1 more example

   Last, but very much not least, are the portals of the Ffestiniog Railway's Moelwyn Tunnel. The tunnel's story itself is well told - it was part of the preservationists' deviation required to get around a reservoir that had flooded the earlier route. But the reason for its inclusion here is that it is probably the most recently constructed, properly architected tunnel portal in Britain.

   2020 August 26, Tim Dunn, “Great railway bores of our time!”, in Rail, pages 48–49

   1. A large primary adit as the main entrance to a mine.
2. InternetA 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.

   1. InternetPhilippinesAn 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.

   2. InternetPhilippinesThe existence of an account on an ePortal.

      You need to have a portal to have a driver's license.

3. anatomyA short artery that carries blood into the liver.
4. fantasyA magical or technological aperture leading to another location, period in time, or dimension.

   Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break with the past and imagine their world anew. This one is no different. It is a portal, a gateway between one world and the next.

   2020 April 3, Arundhati Roy, “The pandemic is a portal”, in Financial Times, London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC

5. architectureA lesser gate, where there are two of different dimensions.
6. architectureFormerly, a small square corner in a room separated from the rest of an apartment by wainscoting, forming a short passage to another apartment.
7. A grandiose and often lavish entrance.

   Thick with sparkling orient gems / The portal shone.

   1667, John Milton, “Book III”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC

8. bridge-buildingThe space, at one end, between opposite trusses when these are terminated by inclined braces.
9. A prayer book or breviary; a portass.
10. US college sportsThe NCAA transfer portal, a database and compliance tool designed to facilitate student-athletes who wish to change schools.
11. computer graphicsA connecting window between volumes, in portal rendering.

1. not comparableanatomyOf or relating to a porta, especially the porta of the liver.

   the portal vein

present singular third person portals · US participle present portaling · UK participle present portalling · US participle past portaled · US past portaled · UK participle past portalled · UK past portalled

1. fantasyTo use a portal (magical or technological doorway).

1. A place in the United States:
   1. An unincorporated community in Cochise County, Arizona.
   2. A ghost town in California.
   3. A town in Bulloch County, Georgia.
   4. An unincorporated community in Sarpy County, Nebraska.
   5. A minor city in Burke County, North Dakota, on the Canadian border.
2. A surname.