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In architecture a portal is a lesser gate, where there are two of different dimensions. Formerly the term portal meant a small square corner in a room separated from the rest of the apartment by wainscoting, forming a short passage to another apartment. By the twentieth century the term portal had b...
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[comics] Portal (Charles Little Sky) is a fictional character, a mutant superhero in the Marvel Comics Universe. He first appeared as Charles Little Sky in Avengers #304 (June 1989) and as Portal in Darkhawk #5 (July 1991). ==Fictional character biography== Native American Charles Little Sky...
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[video game] Portal is a 2007 single-player first-person puzzle-platform sci fi video game developed by Valve Corporation. The game was released in a bundle package called The Orange Box for Microsoft Windows and Xbox 360 on October 9, 2007, and for the PlayStation 3 on December 11, 2007. Th...
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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].
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(World-Wide Web) A website 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...
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[architecture] Portal is a general term describing an opening in the walls of a building, gate or fortification, and especially a grand entrance to an important structure. Doors, metal gates or portcullis in the opening can be used to control entry or exit. The surface surrounding the openin...
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[television] ==Summary== Image of DVD cover of GONZO-produced Japanese anime television series, Samurai 7. Copyrights belong to, (c) 2004 GONZO, GDH (Gonzo Digimation Holdings Inc), Akira Kurosawa. == Fair use in Samurai 7 == Though this image is subject to copyright, its use is covered by t...
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[interactive novel] Portal is a mix between a computer novel and an interactive game. It was published for the Amiga in 1986 by Activision, written by Rob Swigart, produced by Brad Fregger and programmed by Nexa Corporation. Versions for the Macintosh, Commodore 64, Apple II, and the IBM PC ...
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Any doorway or entrance but especially one that is large and imposing.
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A Web site that acts as a doorway or introduction to many other Web sites that are sometimes grouped into categories [Yahoo is a famous example].
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A web-site or service that offers a window into a broad array of resources and services. A portal also allows the provider and/or user to customise the content of the web-site to meet individual needs.
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[n] - a grand and imposing entrance (often extended metaphorically)
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A web page that provides a single point of entry for a suite of web-accessible services. ISPs provide portals for their subscribers. Especially important for WAP services because users need consistent and simple interfaces but WAP portals tend to be controlled by mobile network operators and can res...
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doorway or carriageway, especially of a fort-gateway
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Literally a gateway. Used to mean intelligent browser software that allows users to personalise their search engine, to define websites and document libraries and subject interest profile so that they are alterted when new documents that meet their subject interest profiles are added to those sites/...
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a website that aims to be a 'doorway' 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 ofte...
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Web site which offers users a range of content and services, often including some kind of directory of search functionality and acting as a gateway to the internet or a sub-set of it.
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Marketing term to describe a website that is the first place people see when using the web. A â€˜portal site` generally has a catalogue of websites and/or a search engine. Portal site may also offer e-mail and other services to entice people to use that particular site as the â€˜point of ent...
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Concerning entrance to an organ, especially that through which blood is carried to liver.
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a very impressive, even monumental entrance or porch, to a building, courtyard etc
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A doorway or entrance, especially one that is large and imposing.
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A website which is designed to be a user`s main point of entry to the web. Portals attempt to achieve this by providing assistance, usually in navigation (Yahoo, Google) or information (FT.com).
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Por'tal noun [ Old French portal , French portail , Late Latin portale , from Latin 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 imposin...
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Por'tal adjective (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. » Portal is applied...
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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. The lesser gate, where there are two of different dimensions. Formerly, a small square ...
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