Portal vs Gate - What's the difference?
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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.
(senseid)A doorlike structure outside a house.
Doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall.
Movable barrier.
(computing) A logical pathway made up of switches which turn on or off. Examples are and'', ''or'', ''nand , etc.
(cricket) The gap between a batsman's bat and pad.
The amount of money made by selling tickets to a concert or a sports event.
(flow cytometry) A line that separates particle type-clusters on two-dimensional dot plots.
passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark.
(electronics) The controlling terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into.
(metalworking) The channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mould; the ingate.
The waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece. Also written geat and git.
To keep something inside by means of a closed gate.
To ground someone.
(biochemistry) To open a closed ion channel.Alberts, Bruce; et al. "Figure 11-21: The gating of ion channels." In: Molecular Biology of the Cell , ed. Senior, Sarah Gibbs. New York: Garland Science, 2002 [cited 18 December 2009]. Available from: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bookshelf/br.fcgi?book=mboc4&part=A1986&rendertype=figure&id=A2030.
To furnish with a gate.
To turn (an image intensifier) on and off selectively as needed, or to avoid damage. See autogating.
A way, path.
* Sir Walter Scott
(obsolete) A journey.
* , II.xii:
(Northern England) A street; now used especially as a combining form to make the name of a street.
(UK, Scotland, dialect, archaic) manner; gait
As nouns the difference between portal and gate
is that portal is a grandiose and often lavish entrance while gate is (door-like structure outside)A doorlike structure outside a house.As an adjective portal
is of or relating to a porta, especially the porta of the liver.As a verb gate is
to keep something inside by means of a closed gate.As a proper noun Gate is
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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
External links
*Anagrams
*See also
* porthole * porch ----gate
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) ).Noun
(en noun)- The gate in front of the railroad crossing went up after the train had passed.
Synonyms
* (computing) logic gateDerived terms
* floodgate * gatekeeper * kissing gate * pearly gates * sluice gateVerb
Etymology 2
From (etyl) gata, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- I was going to be an honest man; but the devil has this very day flung first a lawyer, and then a woman, in my gate .
- nought regarding, they kept on their gate , / And all her vaine allurements did forsake [...].