PORTALS
Noun
portals
plural of portal
Anagrams
• patrols, sportal
Source: Wiktionary
PORTAL
Por"tal, n. Etym: [OF. portal, F. portail, LL. portale, fr. L. porta
a gate. See Port a gate.]
1. A door or gate; hence, a way of entrance or exit, especially one
that is grand and imposing.
Thick with sparkling orient gems The portal shone. Milton.
From out the fiery portal of the east. Shak.
2. (Arch.)
(a) The lesser gate, where there are two of different dimensions.
(b) Formerly, a small square corner in a room separated from the rest
of the apartment by wainscoting, forming a short passage to another
apartment.
(c) By analogy with the French portail, used by recent writers for
the whole architectural composition which surrounds and includes the
doorways and porches of a church.
3. (Bridge Building)
Definition: The space, at one end, between opposite trusses when these are
terminated by inclined braces.
4. A prayer book or breviary; a portass. [Obs.] Portal bracing
(Bridge Building), a combination of struts and ties which lie in the
plane of the inclined braces at a portal, serving to transfer wind
pressure from the upper parts of the trusses to an abutment or pier
of the bridge.
Por"tal, a. (Anat.)
Definition: Of or pertaining to a porta, especially the porta of the liver;
as, the portal vein, which enters the liver at the porta, and divides
into capillaries after the manner of an artery.
Note: Portal is applied to other veins which break up into
capillaries; as, the renal portal veins in the frog.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition