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plural portals
An entrance, entry point, or means of entry. quotations examples
Last, but very much not least, are the portals of the Ffestiniog Railway's Moelwyn Tunnel. The tunnel's story itself is well told - it was part of the preservationists' deviation required to get around a reservoir that had flooded the earlier route. But the reason for its inclusion here is that it is probably the most recently constructed, properly architected tunnel portal in Britain.
2020 August 26, Tim Dunn, “Great railway bores of our time!”, in Rail, pages 48–49
(Internet) A website or page that acts as an entrance to other websites or pages on the Internet. examples
(anatomy) A short vein that carries blood into the liver. examples
(science fiction and fantasy) A magical or technological doorway leading to another location, period in time or dimension. examples
(architecture) A lesser gate, where there are two of different dimensions. examples
(architecture) Formerly, a small square corner in a room separated from the rest of an apartment by wainscoting, forming a short passage to another apartment. examples
A grandiose and often lavish entrance. quotations examples
Thick with sparkling orient gems / The portal shone.
1667, John Milton, “Book III”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […]; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873,
(bridge-building) The space, at one end, between opposite trusses when these are terminated by inclined braces. examples
A prayer book or breviary; a portass. examples
not comparable
(anatomy) Of or relating to a porta, especially the porta of the liver. examples
third-person singular simple present portals, present participle portaling or portalling, simple past and past participle portaled or portalled
(science fiction, fantasy) To use a portal (magical or technological doorway). examples