Wiki vs Portal - What's the difference?
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A collaborative website which can be directly edited merely by using a web browser, often by anyone with access to it.
To research on Wikipedia or some similar wiki.
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To conduct research on a wiki.
To contribute to a wiki.
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To participate in the wiki-based production of.
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A grandiose and often lavish entrance.
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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 a proper noun wiki
is (proscribed) wikipedia.As a noun portal is
portal (grandiose and often lavish entrance).wiki
English
(wikipedia wiki)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* interwikiVerb
(en verb)- To get an understanding of the topics, he quickly went online and wikied each one.
Derived terms
* wikify * wikiholic * wikilink * The names of many wiki-based Web projects, e.g. Wikipedia, Wikisource, ), (WikiLeaks), (Wikibooks), (Wikimedia Foundation).References
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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