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Portal vs Gateway - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between portal and gateway

is that portal is a grandiose and often lavish entrance while gateway is (entrance)An entrance capable of being blocked by use of a gate.

As an adjective portal

is of or relating to a porta, especially the porta of the liver.

As a verb gateway is

{{cx|transitive|digital communications|lang=en}} To make available via a gateway, or access point.

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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    Anagrams

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    See also

    * porthole * porch ----

    gateway

    English

    (wikipedia gateway)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (senseid)An entrance capable of being blocked by use of a gate.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
    • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=1 citation , passage=The original family who had begun to build a palace to rival Nonesuch had died out before they had put up little more than the gateway , […].}}
  • Any point that represents the beginning of a transition from one place or phase to another.
  • A point at which freight moving from one territory to another is interchanged between transportation lines.
  • (digital communications) In wireless internet, an access point with additional software capabilities such as providing NAT and DHCP, which may also provide VPN support, roaming, firewalls, various levels of security, etc.

    • Derived terms

    * gateway drug

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make available via a gateway, or access point.

    • Anagrams

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