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Definition of portal
2 : the whole architectural composition surrounding and including the doorways and porches of a church
3 : the approach or entrance to a bridge or tunnel
4 : a communicating part or area of an organism; specifically : the point at which something (such as a pathogen) enters the body
5 : a website serving as a guide or point of entry to the World Wide Web and usually including a search engine or a collection of links to other sites arranged especially by topic
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Examples of portal in a Sentence
a Web portal for baseball fans
the main portal to the estate is an elaborate wrought iron gate on the side facing the road
Recent Examples of portal from the Web
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Niantic Labs already had experience with the type of game its developers envisioned for Pokémon Go, through its earlier mobile game Ingress that featured two factions battling each other by capturing portals virtually housed in real-world locations.
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The portal will not require any additional city employees, said Linda LaCloche, spokeswoman for the city.
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The young man who had been hired to watch a glass portal doubted the possibility of such strangeness, and was horribly murdered as a result.
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All the vintage photos serve as a portal to the past for the actor’s fans and his family, to a time when John Wayne wasn’t one of the biggest stars in the world, but rather a man who loved the sea, taking life one wave at a time.
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Follow stories throughout the day with our Politics & Policy portal. ‘
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The news provoked intense debate on the Netease portal, with more than 40,000 comments, although more appeared to express indignation at the idea that the man had lured away people’s pets than at the idea of eating the animals.
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So when properly installed, with the top rail (1) holding the unit snugly under the sash, side panels (2) extend outward to fill the window opening, which is the portal between indoor and outdoor.
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Also evading tax will be difficult as transactions have to be reported on GSTN portal.
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Origin and Etymology of portal
Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Medieval Latin portale city gate, porch, from neuter of portalis of a gate, from Latin porta gate — more at port
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Definition of portal
1 : of or relating to the transverse fissure on the underside of the liver where most of the vessels enter
2 : of, relating to, or being a portal vein or a portal system portal circulation
Recent Examples of portal from the Web
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For Marissa Harrison, the beach has become her portal to the world.
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Rodríguez covered the police beat for local online portal Colectivo Pericú.
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IBM and its partners can help integrate these with existing business processes, or developers can dig in for themselves, as most of the tools are also available as APIs on IBM's Bluemix cloud services portal.
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Meanwhile, conveyor belts stretching from the tunnel machine to Terminal 46, near the south portal in Sodo, have been dismantled.
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During his morning keynote, Pichai also introduced a flurry of machine learning updates for Google products, and unveiled a new web portal housing all of the company’s AI efforts.
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For example, users accessing the portal by computer can see two tabs at at the top of a portal page, for current and historical data.
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Shoo, fly, don't bother me Satan keeps horseflies as pets, and the portal to hell is located at the islands east of the Biloxi Marsh.
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The Johnson County Commission began looking at a 2018 budget that maintains a portal, of sorts, to reduce the tax rate under the right circumstances.
These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'portal'. Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
Origin and Etymology of portal
New Latin porta transverse fissure of the liver, from Latin, gate
Portal
playDefinition of Portal
Charles Frederick Algernon 1893–1971 1st Viscount Portal of Hungerford British air marshal
PORTAL Defined for English Language Learners
portal
playDefinition of portal for English Language Learners
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: a large door or gate to a building (such as a church)
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computers : a Web site that helps you find other sites
PORTAL Defined for Kids
portal
playDefinition of portal for Students
: a large or fancy door or gate
Medical Dictionary
Medical Definition of portal
: a communicating part or area of an organism: asa: portal veinb: the point at which something enters the body portals of infection
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Medical Definition of portal
1: of or relating to the porta hepatis
2: of, relating to, or being a portal vein or a portal system portal blood portal circulation
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