Definitions for PORTAL
ˈpɔr tl, ˈpoʊr-por·tal

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. portalnoun

   a grand and imposing entrance (often extended metaphorically)

   "the portals of the cathedral"; "the portals of heaven"; "the portals of success"

2. portal site, portalnoun

   a site that the owner positions as an entrance to other sites on the internet

   "a portal typically has search engines and free email and chat rooms etc."

3. portal vein, hepatic portal vein, portal, vena portaenoun

   a short vein that carries blood into the liver

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. portalnoun

   A grandiose and often lavish entrance.

2. portalnoun

   An entrance, entry point, or means of entry.

   The local library, a portal of knowledge.

3. portalnoun

   A website that acts as an entrance to other websites on the Internet.

   The new medical portal has dozens of topical categories containing links to hundreds of sites.

4. portalnoun

   A short vein that carries blood into the liver.

5. Etymology: From portale, from porta

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Portalnoun

   A gate; the arch under which the gate opens.

   Etymology: portail, Fr. po tella, Italian.

   King Richard doth appear,
   As doth the blushing discontented sun,
   From out the fiery portal of the east. William Shakespeare, Rich. II.

   Though I should run
   To those disclosing portals of the sun;
   And walk his way, until his horses steep
   Their fiery locks in the Iberian deep. George Sandys.

   He through heav’n
   That open’d wide her blazing portals, led
   To God’s eternal house direct the way. John Milton.

   The sick for air before the portal gasp. Dryden.

   The portal consists of a composite order unknown to the ancients. Joseph Addison, Remarks on Italy.

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1. portal

   A portal is a website or service that offers a broad range of resources, such as email, forums, search engines, and online shopping malls. It's also considered as an access point, gateway, or door into the internet or another digital system. A portal aids in navigation and connectivity in a network and often provides personalized capabilities to its visitors.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Portalnoun

   a door or gate; hence, a way of entrance or exit, especially one that is grand and imposing

2. Portalnoun

   the lesser gate, where there are two of different dimensions

3. Portalnoun

   formerly, a small square corner in a room separated from the rest of the apartment by wainscoting, forming a short passage to another apartment

4. Portalnoun

   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

5. Portalnoun

   the space, at one end, between opposite trusses when these are terminated by inclined braces

6. Portalnoun

   a prayer book or breviary; a portass

7. Portaladjective

   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

8. Etymology: [OF. portal, F. portail, LL. portale, fr. L. porta a gate. See Port a gate.]

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1. Portal

   Portal is a 2007 first-person puzzle-platform video game developed by Valve Corporation. The game was released in a bundle package called The Orange Box for Microsoft Windows and Xbox 360 on October 9, 2007 and for the PlayStation 3 on December 11, 2007. The Windows version of the game is available for download separately through Valve's content delivery system Steam and was released as a standalone retail product on April 9, 2008. A standalone version called Portal: Still Alive was released on the Xbox Live Arcade service on October 22, 2008; this version includes an additional 14 puzzles. A Mac OS X version was released as part of the Mac-compatible Steam platform on May 12, 2010. The game primarily comprises a series of puzzles that must be solved by teleporting the player's character and simple objects using "the Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device", a device that can create inter-spatial portals between two flat planes. The player-character, Chell, is challenged by an artificial intelligence named GLaDOS to complete each puzzle in the Aperture Science Enrichment Center using the portal gun with the promise of receiving cake when all the puzzles are completed. The game's unique physics allows momentum to be retained through portals, requiring creative use of portals to maneuver through the test chambers. This gameplay element is based on a similar concept from the game Narbacular Drop; many of the team members from the DigiPen Institute of Technology who worked on Narbacular Drop were hired by Valve for the creation of Portal.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Portal

   pōrt′al, n. a small gate: any entrance: (archit.) the arch over a gate: the lesser of two gates.—Portal circulation, the capillary transmission of venous blood from one organ to another in its passage to the heart; Portal system, the portal vein with its tributaries, &c.; Portal vein, the vein which conveys to the liver the venous blood from intestines, spleen, and stomach. [O. Fr. (Fr. portail)—Low L. portale—L. porta, a gate.]

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. PORTAL

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Portal is ranked #23185 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Portal surname appeared 1,100 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Portal.
   
   75.8% or 834 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   23% or 253 total occurrences were White.
   0.6% or 7 total occurrences were Asian.

Matched Categories

1. • Entrance
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Anagrams for PORTAL »

1. patrol

2. tropal

How to pronounce PORTAL?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of PORTAL in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of PORTAL in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of PORTAL in a Sentence

1. Derek Thomas:

   Coach Graham has truly stripped the love and joy out for a lot of people, the transfer portal is blowing up. All of those guys are my friends. I know them. I talk to them, and there’s only one reason why they are choosing to leave this beautiful and incredible university; it’s because they cannot stand to have Coach Graham as the head coach any longer.

2. Mike DelPrete:

   Zillow's customer acquisition cost is zero, it's the most popular real estate portal in the country with hundreds of millions of consumers going there. It's easy to put up an advertisement to ask about iBuying, while other competitors need to spend tens of millions of dollars to generate those leads. It's a sustainable competitive advantage.

3. Jim Ryan:

   Tamez says even if a scan shows an empty hidden compartment it could pay off down the road. The imager gives us the opportunity to, once we find that compartment, scan it. If its empty we never have to tell the bad guy that we found it and all we can do is start doing our research and putting lookouts on this particular vehicle so we can target it at a later time, said Tamez. Tamezsays it saves his team time, money, and officers lives. The alternative is paying for damages on a vehicle, the alternative is having your officers come in contact with fentanyl and possibly overdosing, theres just so many, so many secondary and tertiaryeffects that are negative that can be avoided with a device like this, said Tamez. IBM DITCHES FACIAL RECOGNITION TECHNOLOGY, JOINS CALL FOR POLICE REFORMS Viken is constantly upgrading. Its latest invention, the Osprey-UVX, is an X-ray machine that scans the bottom of moving vehicles.Its expected to roll out later this year at the Laredo and Brownsville ports of entry. Officers will be able to scan a car instantly as it passes through their ports. Security technology company Viken Detection's latest invention is an under vehicle scanner called the Osprey-UVX which can detect hidden items stashed under cars. It's expected to be rolled out at the Southern Texas border later this year. It can scan moving vehicles as they drive over it (Viken Detection) You can stay in your vehicle and you can drive either over or through a portal and you will be able to get a complete image of the vehicle, said Ryan. Within the year Viken Detection hopes to take things even further by trialinga new device that can scanan entire vehicle as it crosses a port of entry. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Our goal is for CBP to go through these demonstrations over the next couple of months and by year-end they will be making their decision and we expect 2021 and beyond to be in installation mode getting these vehicle scanners all the way across the board.

4. Benjamin Pohl:

   It's like a portal, a window into the past that you can touch, medieval charters are important not just because of the legal acts they contain, but also for what they can tell us about the society and political culture at the time.

5. El Kaliouby:

   We routinely checked the portal. The test seemed to be on, and it still shows that the test is on. We also received no email notifications from ACT. Zilch, i know and understand how challenging it is to lead a business in the face of all this uncertainty, but how ACT is handling this is just unacceptable.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=PORTAL
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Portal
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=PORTAL
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/PORTAL
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=PORTAL
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=PORTAL
8. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html