Portal

['pɔːt(ə)l] or ['pɔrtl]

解释:

(noun.) a grand and imposing entrance (often extended metaphorically); 'the portals of the cathedral'; 'the portals of heaven'; 'the portals of success'.

安琪编辑--From WordNet

解释:

(n.) A door or gate; hence, a way of entrance or exit, especially one that is grand and imposing.

(n.) The lesser gate, where there are two of different dimensions.

(n.) Formerly, a small square corner in a room separated from the rest of the apartment by wainscoting, forming a short passage to another apartment.

(n.) 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.

(n.) The space, at one end, between opposite trusses when these are terminated by inclined braces.

(n.) A prayer book or breviary; a portass.

(a.) 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.

戴夫校对

同义词及近义词：

n. Gate, gateway, entrance, passage-way.

科妮莉亚手打

同义词及反义词：

SYN:Gate, entrance, gateway,[See ENTRANCE]

阿蒂整理

解释:

n. a small gate: any entrance: (archit.) the arch over a gate: the lesser of two gates.—Portal circulation the capillary transmission of venous blood from one organ to another in its passage to the heart; Portal system the portal vein with its tributaries &c.; Portal vein the vein which conveys to the liver the venous blood from intestines spleen and stomach.

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