Portal : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Portal	by the DICT Development Group
6 results for Portal
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
portal n a grand and imposing entrance (often extended metaphorically); "the portals of the cathedral"; "the portals of heaven"; "the portals of success" a site that the owner positions as an entrance to other sites on the internet; "a portal typically has search engines and free email and chat rooms etc." Synonym(s): portal site, portal a short vein that carries blood into the liver Synonym(s): portal vein, hepatic portal vein, portal, vena portae
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Portal \Por"tal\, a. (Anat.) 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. Note: Portal is applied to other veins which break up into capillaries; as, the renal portal veins in the frog.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Portal \Por"tal\, n. [OF. portal, F. portail, LL. portale, fr. L. porta a gate. See {Port} a gate.] 1. A door or gate; hence, a way of entrance or exit, especially one that is grand and imposing. Thick with sparkling orient gems The portal shone. --Milton. From out the fiery portal of the east. --Shak. 2. (Arch.) (a) The lesser gate, where there are two of different dimensions. (b) Formerly, a small square corner in a room separated from the rest of the apartment by wainscoting, forming a short passage to another apartment. (c) 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. 3. (Bridge Building) The space, at one end, between opposite trusses when these are terminated by inclined braces. 4. A prayer book or breviary; a portass. [Obs.] {Portal bracing} (Bridge Building), a combination of struts and ties which lie in the plane of the inclined braces at a portal, serving to transfer wind pressure from the upper parts of the trusses to an abutment or pier of the bridge.
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Portal, AZ Zip code(s): 85632 Portal, GA (town, FIPS 62216) Location: 32.53627 N, 81.93058 W Population (1990): 522 (229 housing units) Area: 4.5 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 30450 Portal, ND (city, FIPS 63740) Location: 48.99561 N, 102.54787 W Population (1990): 192 (104 housing units) Area: 1.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 58772
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
PORTAL Process-Oriented Real-Time Algorithmic Language. ["PORTAL - A Pascal-based Real-Time Programming Language", R. Schild in Algorithmic Languages, J.W. deBakker et al eds, N-H 1981].
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
portal A {web site} that aims to be an entry point to the {World-Wide Web}, typically offering a {search engine} and/or links to useful pages, and possibly news or other services. These services are usually provided for free in the hope that users will make the site their default {home page} or at least visit it often. Popular examples are {Yahoo} and {MSN}. Most portals on the {Internet} exist to generate advertising income for their owners, others may be focused on a specific group of users and may be part of an {intranet} or {extranet}. Some may just concentrate on one particular subject, say technology or medicine, and are known as a {vertical portals}. (2001-07-07)