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Dashboard vs Portal - What's the difference?

dashboard | portal |

As nouns the difference between dashboard and portal

is that dashboard is an upturned screen of wood or leather placed on the front of a horse-drawn carriage, sleigh or other vehicle that protected the driver from mud, debris, water and snow thrown up by the horse's hooves while portal is a grandiose and often lavish entrance.

As a verb dashboard

is to organize in a dashboard format.

As an adjective portal is

of or relating to a porta, especially the porta of the liver.

dashboard

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An upturned screen of wood or leather placed on the front of a horse-drawn carriage, sleigh or other vehicle that protected the driver from mud, debris, water and snow thrown up by the horse's hooves.
  • A panel under the windscreen of a motor car or aircraft, containing indicator dials, compartments, and sometimes controls.
  • (computing, video games) A graphical user interface in the form of or resembling a motor car dashboard.

    • Derived terms

    * dash

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To organize in a format.
    • Dashboarding your work can enhance productivity.

    portal

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A grandiose and often lavish entrance.
  • * Milton
    • Thick with sparkling orient gems / The portal shone.
  • An entrance, entry point, or means of entry.
    • The local library, a portal of knowledge.
  • (Internet) A website that acts as an entrance to other websites on the Internet.
    • The new medical portal has dozens of topical categories containing links to hundreds of sites.
  • (anatomy) A short vein that carries blood into the liver.
  • (fiction) A magical or technological leading to another location, period in time or dimension.
  • (architecture) A lesser gate, where there are two of different dimensions.
  • (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.
  • (bridge-building) The space, at one end, between opposite trusses when these are terminated by inclined braces.
  • A prayer book or breviary; a portass.

    • Derived terms

    * nonportal

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (anatomy) Of or relating to a porta, especially the porta of the liver.
    • the portal vein

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    See also

    * porthole * porch ----