portal

IPA: pˈɔrtʌɫ

An entrance, entry point, or means of entry.
(Internet) A website or page that acts as an entrance to other websites or pages on the Internet.
(anatomy) A short vein that carries blood into the liver.
(science fiction and fantasy) A magical or technological doorway 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.
A grandiose and often lavish entrance.
(bridge-building) The space, at one end, between opposite trusses when these are terminated by inclined braces.
A prayer book or breviary; a portass.
A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Cochise County, Arizona.
A ghost town in California.
A town in Bulloch County, Georgia.
An unincorporated community in Sarpy County, Nebraska.
A minor city in Burke County, North Dakota, on the Canadian border.
A surname.

Examples of "portal" in Sentences

The most news and entertainment portal from a Canadian perspective.
“I believe this portal is a positive step in that direction,” he said.
A portal is a doorway, an entrance, an opening in which you are one side looking through to another.
Administration is easier than with previous versions, with a well-organized admin portal that allows easy access to all the features.
I was respon - sible for getting them away from CRTs, for getting into really interactive EEG programming -- what they call portal programming nowadays.
It might seem irrelevant, but it is a bit of a telltale that the website (what _should_ be the public's main portal for the latest NASA news) isn't priority. allen
The decrepit two-bedroom apartment behind this unassuming portal is an essential junction of what activists in Iraq and their U.S. supporters call the Underground Railroad.
A platform which supports flexibility in regards to content manageability and its user friendly and user attracting display immensely increases what I call the portal sexiness factor.