portal 1
— portaled, portalled , adj.
/pawr"tl, pohr"-/ , n.
1. a door, gate, or entrance, esp. one of imposing appearance, as to a palace.
2. an iron or steel bent for bracing a framed structure, having curved braces between the vertical members and a horizontal member at the top.
3. an entrance to a tunnel or mine.
4. Computers. a Web site that functions as an entrance to the Internet, as by providing useful content and organizing various sites and features on the World Wide Web or other parts of the Internet.
[ 1300-50; ME portale portalis of a gate. See PORTAL 2 ]
Syn. 1. entranceway, doorway, entry, threshold.
portal 2
/pawr"tl, pohr"-/ , Anat.
adj.
1. noting or pertaining to the transverse fissure of the liver.
n.
2. See portal vein .
[ 1605-15; portalis of a gate. See PORT 4 , -AL 1 ]