Look up: portal

1. Portal
   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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2. 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].
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3. portal
   (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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4. portal
   Any doorway or entrance but especially one that is large and imposing.
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5. Portal
   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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6. Portal
   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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7. portal
   [n] - a grand and imposing entrance (often extended metaphorically)
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8. portal
   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 result in a `walled garden` environment.
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9. portal
   doorway or carriageway, especially of a fort-gateway
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10. Portal
    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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11. Portal
    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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12. Portal
    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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13. Portal
    Marketing term to describe a website that is the first place people see when using the web. A ‘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 ‘point of entry` of choice.
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14. Portal
    Concerning entrance to an organ, especially that through which blood is carried to liver.
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15. Portal
    a very impressive, even monumental entrance or porch, to a building, courtyard etc
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16. Portal
    A doorway or entrance, especially one that is large and imposing.
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17. Portal
    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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18. Portal
    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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19. Portal
    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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20. portal
    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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21. portal
    (por´tәl) porta. pertaining to an entrance, especially the porta hepatis.
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22. Portal
    • (n.) The space, at one end, between opposite trusses when these are terminated by inclined braces. • (a.) 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. ...
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23. portal
    (from the article `architecture`) ...significance. The stairway, employed in the past to give `monumentality` to important buildings, frequently became more expressive than ... Throughout this period, as in the Romanesque period, the best sculptors were extensively employed on architectural decoration. The most important ... ...
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24. portal
    (from the article `coal mining`) Accesses to a coal seam, called portals, are the first to be completed and generally the last to be sealed. A large coal mine will have several ... ...and chambers are excavated from the inside—with the overlying material left in place—and then lined as necessary to support the adjacent ground....
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25. Portal
    The structure surrounding the immediate entrance to a mine; the mouth of an adit or tunnel.
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