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Mantrap vs Portal - What's the difference?

mantrap | portal |

As nouns the difference between mantrap and portal

is that mantrap is any device used to physically entrap humans while portal is portal (grandiose and often lavish entrance).

mantrap

English

Alternative forms

* man-trap * man trap

Noun

(en noun)
  • Any device used to physically entrap humans

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    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 ----