PORTAL
\pˈɔːtə͡l], \pˈɔːtəl], \p_ˈɔː_t_əl]\
Definitions of PORTAL
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A door or gate; hence, a way of entrance or exit, especially one that is grand and imposing.
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The lesser gate, where there are two of different dimensions.
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Formerly, a small square corner in a room separated from the rest of the apartment by wainscoting, forming a short passage to another apartment.
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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.
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The space, at one end, between opposite trusses when these are terminated by inclined braces.
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A prayer book or breviary; a portass.
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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.
By Oddity Software
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William R. Warner
By Daniel Lyons
By James Champlin Fernald
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A system of veins draining the abdominal part of the alimentary canal, spleen, pancreas, and gallbladder.
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
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Relating to the porta of the liver,- as the portal system, or system of the vena porta. By extension, the term has been applied to an analogous system of vessels in the kidney. See Kidney.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
