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Portal   /pˈɔrtəl/   Listen
Portal

noun
1.
A grand and imposing entrance (often extended metaphorically).  "The portals of heaven" , "The portals of success"
2.
A site that the owner positions as an entrance to other sites on the internet.  Synonym: portal site.
3.
A short vein that carries blood into the liver.  Synonyms: hepatic portal vein, portal vein, vena portae.



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"Portal" Quotes from Famous Books



... each by separate doors; Baba led Juan onward room by room Through glittering galleries and o'er marble floors, Till a gigantic portal through the gloom, Haughty and huge, along the distance lowers; And wafted far arose a rich perfume: It seem'd as though they came upon a shrine, For all was ...
— Don Juan • Lord Byron
... boulevard there was a gravelled driveway with a stone portal. The iron gates were thrown wide, and at his entrance Ford stood aside to let an outgoing auto-car have the right of way. Being full of his errand, and of the abstraction of a depressed soul, Ford merely remarked that there were two persons ...
— Empire Builders • Francis Lynde
... accompanied these words with a gesture, beckoning the young ladies to follow her, and led the way through the second room, to the heavy wooden portal of ...
— A Dream of Empire - Or, The House of Blennerhassett • William Henry Venable
... I was at River Hall. Looking up at its cheerless portal, I was amazed at first to see the outside lamp flaring away in the darkness. Then I remembered that all the other gas being out, of course this, which I had not turned off, would blaze ...
— The Uninhabited House • Mrs. J. H. Riddell
... awakened terrific images in her mind, and she almost expected to see banditti start up from under the trees. At length, the carriages emerged upon a heathy rock, and, soon after, reached the castle gates, where the deep tone of the portal bell, which was struck upon to give notice of their arrival, increased the fearful emotions, that had assailed Emily. While they waited till the servant within should come to open the gates, she anxiously ...
— The Mysteries of Udolpho • Ann Radcliffe


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