Portal vs Ingress - What's the difference?
portal | ingress |
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.
The act of entering.
Permission to enter.
A door or other means of entering.
(astronomy) The entrance of the Moon into the shadow of the Earth in eclipses, or the Sun's entrance into a sign, etc.
To intrude or insert oneself
* {{quote-book, 1963, , The Gift: A Novel
, passage="Were you asleep? Did I disturb you?" he would ask, seeing Fyodor flat on his back on the sofa, and then, ingressing entirely, he would shut the door tightly behind him and sit by Fyodor 's feet }}
* {{quote-book, 2001, Lynda Schor, chapter=My Death, Mother Reader, editor=Moyra Davey
, passage=When the tub was full I ingressed into the water gently, insinuating my body in a bit at a time, enjoying the sensual pleasure of the extreme heat on the lower part of my body
To enter (a specified location or area)
* {{quote-book, 1976, , The United States Air Force in Southeast Asia: Aces and Aerial Victories
, passage= "We ingressed North Vietnam over Cam Pha on a westerly heading," reported Captain Madden.}}
* {{quote-book, 1998, Michael William Donnelly, Falcon's Cry
, passage=We were ingressing the target area.}}
(intransitive, astrology, of a planet) To enter into a zodiacal sign
* {{quote-journal, 1861, date=December 28, , Almanacs, All the Year Round, volume=VI
, passage=The middle of March finds " Mars ingressing upon the 16th degree of Capricorn, where the sun has arrived in the nativity of Lord Palmerston,"
To manifest or cause to be manifested in the temporal world; to effect ingression
As a noun portal
is portal (grandiose and often lavish entrance).As a proper noun ingress is
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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
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* porthole * porch ----ingress
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(es)- All ingress was prohibited.
Antonyms
* (act of entering) egress * (door or other means of entering) egressDerived terms
* ingressive * ingress traffic * ingress routerVerb
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