Portal vs Client - What's the difference?
portal | client |
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.
A customer, a buyer or receiver of goods or services.
(computing) The role of a computer application or system that requests and/or consumes the services provided by another having the role of server.
Person who receives help or advice from a professional person (ex. a lawyer, an accountant, a social worker, a psychiatrist, etc).
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(legal) A person who employs or retains an attorney to represent him or her in any legal matter, or one who merely divulges confidential matters to an attorney while pursuing professional assistance without subsequently retaining the attorney.
As nouns the difference between portal and client
is that portal is portal (grandiose and often lavish entrance) while client is client, customer.portal
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