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Portal vs Vestibule - What's the difference?

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In architecture terms the difference between portal and vestibule

is that portal is formerly, a small square corner in a room separated from the rest of an apartment by wainscoting, forming a short passage to another apartment while vestibule is a passage, hall or room, such as a lobby, between the outer door and the interior of a building.

As nouns the difference between portal and vestibule

is that portal is a grandiose and often lavish entrance while vestibule is a passage, hall or room, such as a lobby, between the outer door and the interior of a building.

As an adjective portal

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

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

    Anagrams

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    See also

    * porthole * porch ----

    vestibule

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (architecture) A passage, hall or room, such as a lobby, between the outer door and the interior of a building.
  • * 1813 , , Volume 3, Chapter 9,
  • Lydia's voice was heard in the vestibule ; the door was thrown open, and she ran into the room.
  • * 1913', '' ,
  • The purpose of the vestibule , at least in western Europe, was not to provide a resting-place for penitents, but to deaden the noise outside.
  • * 1929 April, ,
  • Some instinct warned Armitage that what was taking place was not a thing for unfortified eyes to see, so he brushed back the crowd with authority as he unlocked the vestibule door.
  • (rail transport) An enclosed entrance at the end of a railway passenger car.
  • * 1912 , Electric railway journal , Volume XL, Number 14, page 556,
  • The exit side of the front vestibule contains a sliding door.
  • (senseid)(medicine, anatomy, by extension) Any of a number of body cavities, serving as or resembling an entrance to another bodily space.
  • * 1838 , Massachusetts Medical Society, New England Surgical Society, Boston Medical and Surgical Journal , Volumes 17-18, page 333,
  • The membrane of the vestibule in this animal is thrown into three folds. The margins of these folds, looking towards the vestibule, are approximated, and, following the law which is now known to regulate the formation of hollow tubes, doubtless unite and coalesce in the next higher species of fish.
  • * 1920 , Jacob Parsons Schaeffer, The Nose, paranasal sinuses, nasolacrimal passageways, and olfactory organ in man; a genetic, developmental, and anatomico-physiological consideration , page 73,
  • The Vestibule' (vestibulum nasi). — The paired ' vestibule may be considered an antechamber to the nasal fossa.
  • * 2001 , René Malek, Cleft Lip and Palate: Lesions, Pathophysiology and Primary Treatment , page 79,
  • The incision of the mucosa over the premaxilla is traced a millimetre or two from the furrow that marks the bottom of the barely-defined vestibule .

    Derived terms

    * vestibular * vestibuled * vestibule school

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