Lumberjack vs Portal - What's the difference?
lumberjack | portal |
To work as a lumberjack, cutting down trees.
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A grandiose and often lavish entrance.
* Milton
An entrance, entry point, or means of entry.
(Internet) A website that acts as an entrance to other websites on the Internet.
(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.
(anatomy) Of or relating to a porta, especially the porta of the liver.
As nouns the difference between lumberjack and portal
is that lumberjack is a person whose work is to fell trees while portal is portal (grandiose and often lavish entrance).As a verb lumberjack
is to work as a lumberjack, cutting down trees.lumberjack
English
Synonyms
* (a person who fells trees) faller, feller, logger, lumbermanVerb
(en verb)citation
See also
* lumbermillportal
English
Noun
(en noun)- Thick with sparkling orient gems / The portal shone.
- The local library, a portal of knowledge.
- The new medical portal has dozens of topical categories containing links to hundreds of sites.
Derived terms
* nonportalAdjective
(-)- the portal vein