portal
Short definition from Wiktionary
Noun
- An entrance, entry point, or means of entry.
- 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.
- A short vein 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.
Adjective
- Of or relating to a porta, especially the porta of the liver.
Verb
- To use a portal (magical or technological doorway).
Proper noun
- A place in the United States: An unincorporated community in Cochise County, Arizona.
- A place in the United States: A ghost town in California.
- A place in the United States: A town in Bulloch County, Georgia.
- A place in the United States: An unincorporated community in Sarpy County, Nebraska.
- A place in the United States: A minor city in Burke County, North Dakota, on the Canadian border.
- A surname.
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