different between portal vs window

English

Etymology

From Medieval Latin port?le, from porta.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?p??t?l/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?p???t?l/, [?p???????]
• Rhymes: -??(?)t?l

Noun

portal (plural portals)

1. An entrance, entry point, or means of entry.

2. (Internet) A website or page that acts as an entrance to other websites or pages on the Internet.

   The new medical portal has dozens of topical categories containing links to hundreds of sites.

3. (anatomy) A short vein that carries blood into the liver.
4. (science fiction and fantasy) A magical or technological doorway leading to another location, period in time or dimension.
5. (architecture) A lesser gate, where there are two of different dimensions.
6. (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.
7. A grandiose and often lavish entrance.
8. (bridge-building) The space, at one end, between opposite trusses when these are terminated by inclined braces.
9. A prayer book or breviary; a portass.

Hyponyms

• (elevated corridor permitting access to a plane from an airport): See jet bridge

Derived terms

• portal rendering

Translations

Adjective

portal (not comparable)

1. (anatomy) Of or relating to a porta, especially the porta of the liver.

   the portal vein

Derived terms

• biportal
• nonportal
• portal triad
• portal vein
• uniportal

See also

• porthole
• porch

Further reading

• Portals on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• patrol, pratol

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /po??tal/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /pur?tal/

Adjective

portal (masculine and feminine plural portals)

1. portal

Noun

portal m (plural portals)

1. portal

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese portal (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Medieval Latin portalis, from Latin porta (“gate”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /po??tal/

Noun

portal m (plural portais)

1. portal
   • 1395, M. González Garcés (ed.), Historia de La Coruña. Edad Media. A Coruña: Caixa Galicia, page 555:

     seendo o Conçello da dicta vila da Crunna ajuntado por pregon en o portal da iglesia de Santiago da dicta vila. segundo que an de huso et de costume

     being the Council of the aforementioned town of A Coruña reunited by announcement at the portal of the church of Saint James of the mentioned town, as they have as customary usage

   Synonym: pórtico

2. porch, portico
   • 1390, M. L. Méndez Fernández (ed.), Contribución ó estudio dun libro das Tenzas da Catedral de Santiago. Edición crítica e estudio dos folios 1 a 27. , Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, page 64:

     que façades ?na dita cassa dous portaes cõ súas portas et alpénderes contra a rrúa do Çiqueello

     you must build at that house two porches, with their doors and their roofs, on the Sequelo street

   • 1434, M. González Garcés (ed.), Historia de La Coruña. Edad Media. A Coruña: Caixa Galicia, page 609:

     Manda o conçello et os alcalldes, regidores et procuradores desta villa da crunna de parte de noso sennor el Rey et do dito conçello da dita villa et porque asi he ordenança antiga que nehunus çapateiros et outras quasquer personas que non sejan çapateiros et vezinnos et moradores da dita villa et en ela non pagan talla con os outros çapateiros vezjnnos da dita villa que non son confrades dos çapateiros asi como os çapateiros de portal, que non vsen dos ditos ofiçios de çapateria nen vendan çapatos nen botas nen outro calçado de coiro en publico nen ascondido nen los ponnan en tendas nen portaes nen anden a vender por la dita villa et pescaria dela Et desde Palavea et media legoa da villa enderredor a villa saluo se os venderen a engros aos ditos çapateiros que viuen et moran na dita villa ou eles os consentiren vender en seus portaes.

     the council and mayors, councilmen and agents of this town of A Coruña, on behalf of our lord the King and of this town council, and because so it is an old ordinance; that no shoemaker or whichever other person who is not a shoemaker and neighbour and dweller of the said town and in it they did not pay contributions with the other shoemakers neighbours of the said town and which are not a brother of the guild of the shoemakers, as well as the shoemakers who work at their porches; that they should not use of this office of shoemaking nor should they sell shoes nor boots nor any other leather footwear, nor publicly, nor in hiding, nor should they put them in shops nor porches nor should they go selling them around this town and its fishery [outskirts neighbourhood], nor from Palavea and half a league around this town, except if they sell them in bulk to the said shoemakers that live and dwell in the said town or if they let them sell at their porches

   Synonyms: alpendre, soportal

3. gate

   Synonym: cancela

4. hall

Derived terms

• Portal
• soportal

References

• “portal” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “portal” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “portal” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “portal” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “portal” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch portaal, from Middle French portal, from Old French portal, from Latin porta. Doublet of porta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?p?r.tal]
• Hyphenation: por?tal

Noun

portal (first-person possessive portalku, second-person possessive portalmu, third-person possessive portalnya)

1. portal
   1. gate.
   2. entry point.
   3. (colloquial) barrier at entry point.
   4. (colloquial) website as an entrance to other websites or pages on the Internet.
      1. (colloquial) marketplace.

Further reading

• “portal” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Middle French

Alternative forms

• portail
• portaul

Etymology

Old French portal.

Noun

portal m (plural portaulx)

1. gate (doorlike structure usually outside of a building or property)

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (portal)

Occitan

Alternative forms

• portau (Gascon, Provençal, Limousin, Auvernhat, Vivaro-Alpine)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pu??tal/

Noun

portal m (plural portals)

1. (Languedoc) portal

Old French

Alternative forms

• portail

Etymology

porte +? -al.

Noun

portal m (oblique plural portaus or portax or portals, nominative singular portaus or portax or portals, nominative plural portal)

1. gate (doorlike structure usually outside of a building or property)

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (portal)

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?r.tal/

Noun

portal m inan

1. (architecture) portal
2. (computing) portal

Declension

Portuguese

Etymology

From porta +? -al

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /pu??ta?/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /po??taw/
• Hyphenation: por?tal

Noun

portal m (plural portais)

1. (architecture) portal, doorway, gateway

Related terms

• porta

Romanian

Etymology

From German Portal.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /por?tal/

Noun

portal n (plural portaluri)

1. (architecture) portal, doorway, gateway

Declension

Related terms

• arcad?

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From German Portal, from Latin porta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?rta?l/

Noun

pòrt?l m (Cyrillic spelling ????????)

1. (architecture) portal

Declension

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /po??tal/, [po??t?al]
• Rhymes: -al
• Hyphenation: por?tal

Etymology 1

From puerta.

Noun

portal m (plural portales)

1. (architecture) portal; porch
2. (Internet) portal

Related terms

• portón
• puerta

See also

• Portales

Etymology 2

From vena porta.

Adjective

portal (plural portales)

1. (anatomy) portal

Further reading

• “portal” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Etymology

From Middle English windowe, windohe, windoge, from Old Norse vindauga (“window”, literally “wind-eye", "wind-aperture", "wind-hole”), i.e. ("air-hole"), equivalent to wind +? eye. Cognate with Scots wyndo, wyndok, winnock (“window”), Faroese vindeyga (“window”), Norwegian Nynorsk vindauga, Norwegian Bokmål vindu (“window”), Danish vindue (“window”), Swedish vindöga (“window”), Elfdalian windog and older German Windauge. The “windows” among early Germanic peoples were just unglazed holes (eyes) in the wall or roof that permitted wind to pass through (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?). Superseded Middle English fenestre, fenester (“window”) borrowed from Old French fenestre (“window”)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?w?nd??/
• (US) enPR: w?n?d?, IPA^(key): /?w?ndo?/, [?w???o?]
• (some accents) enPR: w?n?d?, IPA^(key): /?w?nd?/
• Rhymes: -?nd??
• Hyphenation: win?dow

Noun

window (countable and uncountable, plural windows)

1. An opening, usually covered by one or more panes of clear glass, to allow light and air from outside to enter a building or vehicle.
   • 1952, L. F. Salzman, Building in England, p.173:

     A window is an opening in a wall to admit light and air.
2. An opening, usually covered by glass, in a shop which allows people to view the shop and its products from outside; a shop window.
3. (architecture) The shutter, casement, sash with its fittings, or other framework, which closes a window opening.
4. A period of time when something is available.
5. A restricted range.
   • 2015, Patrick R. Nicolas, Scala for Machine Learning (page 109)

     In this case, a band-pass filter using a range or window of frequencies is appropriate to isolate the frequency or the group of frequencies that characterize a specific cycle.

6. (graphical user interface) A rectangular area on a computer terminal or screen containing some kind of user interface, displaying the output of and allowing input for one of a number of simultaneously running computer processes.
7. A figure formed of lines crossing each other.
   • 1709, William King, Art of Cookery

     till he has windows on his bread and butter

8. (medicine) The time between first infection and detectability.
9. (military, historical, uncountable) Synonym of chaff (“strips of material intended to confuse radar”)

Coordinate terms

• door

Derived terms

Related terms

• wind

Translations

Verb

window (third-person singular simple present windows, present participle windowing, simple past and past participle windowed)

1. (transitive) To furnish with windows.
2. (transitive) To place at or in a window.