portal

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  1. noun A doorway, entrance, or gate, especially one that is large and imposing.
  2. noun An entrance or a means of entrance: the local library, a portal of knowledge.
  3. noun The portal vein.
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  • Along with Smoky, who carried the dead demons, and Morio, who helped us keep Wisteria in check, we slipped back into the night and into the woods CHAPTER 20 Traveling through a portal is a little like falling into a drug-induced sleep for the barest fraction of a second, leaving behind a nasty hangover and the distinct sense that the laws of nature have been violated one too many times. —  Yasmine Galenorn - [Sisters of the Moon 1] - Witchling
  • Now the portal was there in ghostly semivisibility. —  SCHMIT~1.TXT
  • A platform which supports flexibility in regards to content manageability and its user friendly and user attracting display immensely increases what I call the portal sexiness factor. —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • The idea of the portal is the brainchild of city-based engineering graduate Jatin Chaudhary, an engineer in information technology from Nirma University. —  Daily News & Analysis
  • Bowl mashup and don't get to the marquee Bad Thing (the zomboni), or just don't have a mini cool enough to bring off the visuals, a chase through the tunnels and a climactic scrape at the mouth of the portal could be a nice closer, not least because a chase and close-quarters tussle would be tonally and tactically distinct from the module's first and second encounters. —  Wax Banks
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  1. Middle English, from Old French, from Medieval Latin portāle, city gate, from neuter of portālis, of a gate, from Latin porta, gate; see per-2 in Indo-European roots. N., sense 3 and adj., from New Latin porta (hepatis), transverse fissure (of the liver), literally gate of the liver, perhaps ultimately translation of Akkadian bāb (ekalli), gate (of the palace), umbilical fissure of the liver (next to the transverse fissure).

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  1. from Old French portal, French portail = Spanish Portuguese portal = Dutch portaal = G. Swedish Danish portal, from Middle Latin portale, entrance, vestibule, portal, neuter of portalis, pertaining to a gate (see portal), from Latin porta, a gate, door: see port.
  2. from Middle Latin portails, pertaining to a gate (as a noun, a porter), from Latin porta, a gate. Cf. portal, n.
 

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