Pivotal vs Portal - What's the difference?
pivotal | portal |
Of, relating to, or being a pivot.
Being of crucial importance; central, key.
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* 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.
As an adjective pivotal
is of, relating to, or being a pivot.As a noun portal is
portal (grandiose and often lavish entrance).pivotal
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Globalisation is about taxes too, passage=It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. It is a tax system that is pivotal in creating the increasing inequality that marks most advanced countries today […].}}
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