2syllables
portal
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Definitions ofportal
1noun
- An entrance, entry point, or means of entry.
Example: "The local library, a portal of knowledge."
- A website or page that acts as an entrance to other websites or pages on the Internet.
Example: "The new medical portal has dozens of topical categories containing links to hundreds of sites."
- A short vein that carries blood into the liver.
- A magical or technological doorway 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.
- (bridge-building) The space, at one end, between opposite trusses when these are terminated by inclined braces.
- A prayer book or breviary; a portass.
1adjective
- Of or relating to a porta, especially the porta of the liver.
Example: "the portal vein"
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