Definitions for portal
ˈpɔr tl, ˈpoʊr-por·tal

Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

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

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. portalnoun

   A grandiose and often lavish entrance.

   Etymology: From portale, from porta

2. portalnoun

   An entrance, entry point, or means of entry.

   The local library, a portal of knowledge.

   Etymology: From portale, from porta

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.

   Etymology: From portale, from porta

4. portalnoun

   A short vein that carries blood into the liver.

   Etymology: From portale, from porta

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Portalnoun

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

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

2. Portalnoun

   the lesser gate, where there are two of different dimensions

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

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

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

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

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

5. Portalnoun

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

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

6. Portalnoun

   a prayer book or breviary; a portass

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

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

   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 Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

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.]

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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. Andreas Mundt:

   These so-called narrow best-price clauses still limit competition between existing portals as well as competition between the hotels, the incentive for a hotel to reduce its prices on a hotel portal is very low when it has to charge higher prices on its own website at the same time.

2. Andrew Bosworth:

   There was a lot of conversation around us launching Portal. But it's about what Facebook is at its core. It's entirely about private conversation.

3. Anuj Somany:

   A portal or page can delete a person's thought but not what he has said it right and got it imprinted into the people's heart.

4. William Osler:

   Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

5. Gordana Biernat:

   Your consciousness is the portal through which your Immediate Reality is continuously created.

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