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evolve | portal |

As a verb evolve

is to move in regular procession through a system.

As a noun portal is

portal (grandiose and often lavish entrance).

evolve

English

Verb

  • To move in regular procession through a system.
  • * Sir M. Hale
    • The animal soul sooner evolves itself to its full orb and extent than the human soul.
  • * (William Whewell) (1794-1866)
    • The principles which art involves, science alone evolves .
  • * (w) (1819-1885)
    • Not by any power evolved from man's own resources, but by a power which descended from above.
  • To change, transform, develop.
  • * 1939 , , Uncle Fred in the Springtime
    • You will remove the pig, place it in the car, and drive it to my house in Wiltshire. That is the plan I have evolved.
  • (biology) Of a population, to change genetic composition over successive generations through the process of evolution.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=September-October, author= Katie L. Burke
    • , magazine=(American Scientist), title= In the News , passage=Oxygen levels on Earth skyrocketed 2.4 billion years ago, when cyanobacteria evolved photosynthesis: the ability to convert water and carbon dioxide into carbohydrates and waste oxygen using solar energy.}}
  • (chemistry) To give off (gas, such as oxygen or carbon dioxide during a reaction).

    • Related terms

    * evolute * evolution * evolutional * evolutionary * evolutionally * evolutionarily * evolutionism * evolutionist * evolutionistic * evolutionistically * evolutive * evolutiveness * evolutivity * evolvable * evolvability * evolvement * evolver ----

    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 ----