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Portal vs. Gate — What's the Difference?

Portal vs. Gate — What's the Difference?

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Portal

A doorway, gate, or other entrance, especially a large and imposing one.

Gate

A gate or gateway is a point of entry to or from a space enclosed by walls. The word derived from old Norse "gat" meaning road or path; But other terms includ yett and port.

Portal

A website or web page providing access or links to other sites
Many healthcare providers already utilize portals through which a patient can access test results

Gate

A structure that can be swung, drawn, or lowered to block an entrance or a passageway.

Portal

Relating to an opening in an organ through which major blood vessels pass, especially the transverse fissure of the liver.
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Gate

An opening in a wall or fence for entrance or exit.

Portal

A doorway, entrance, or gate, especially one that is large and imposing.

Gate

The structure surrounding such an opening, such as the monumental or fortified entrance to a palace or walled city.

Portal

An entrance or a means of entrance
The local library, a portal of knowledge.

Gate

A doorway or walkway in a terminal, as at an airport, through which passengers proceed when embarking or disembarking.

Portal

The portal vein.

Gate

A waiting area inside a terminal, abutting such a doorway or walkway.

Portal

A website considered as an entry point to other websites, often by being or providing access to a search engine.

Gate

A means of access
The gate to riches.

Portal

Of or relating to the portal vein or the portal system.

Gate

A mountain pass.

Portal

Of or relating to a point of entrance to an organ, especially the transverse fissure of the liver, through which the blood vessels enter.

Gate

The total paid attendance or admission receipts at a public event
A good gate at the football game.

Portal

An entrance, entry point, or means of entry.
The local library, a portal of knowledge.

Gate

A device for controlling the passage of water or gas through a dam or conduit.

Portal

(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.

Gate

The channel through which molten metal flows into a shaped cavity of a mold.

Portal

(anatomy) A short vein that carries blood into the liver.

Gate

(Sports) A passage between two upright poles through which a skier must go in a slalom race.

Portal

A magical or technological doorway leading to another location, period in time or dimension.

Gate

A logic gate.

Portal

(architecture) A lesser gate, where there are two of different dimensions.

Gate

A path or way.

Portal

(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.

Gate

A particular way of acting or doing; manner.

Portal

A grandiose and often lavish entrance.

Gate

Chiefly British To confine (a student) to the grounds of a college as punishment.

Portal

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

Gate

(Electronics) To select part of (a wave) for transmission, reception, or processing by magnitude or time interval.

Portal

A prayer book or breviary; a portass.

Gate

To furnish with a gate
"The entrance to the rear lawn was also gated" (Dean Koontz).

Portal

(anatomy) Of or relating to a porta, especially the porta of the liver.
The portal vein

Gate

A doorlike structure outside a house.

Portal

To use a portal magical or technological doorway.

Gate

Doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall.

Portal

A door or gate; hence, a way of entrance or exit, especially one that is grand and imposing.
Thick with sparkling orient gemsThe portal shone.
From out the fiery portal of the east.

Gate

Movable barrier.
The gate in front of the railroad crossing went up after the train had passed.

Portal

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

Gate

Passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark.

Portal

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

Gate

A location which serves as a conduit for transport, migration, or trade.

Portal

A prayer book or breviary; a portass.

Gate

The amount of money made by selling tickets to a concert or a sports event.

Portal

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.

Gate

(computing) A logical pathway made up of switches which turn on or off. Examples are and, or, nand, etc.

Portal

A grand and imposing entrance (often extended metaphorically);
The portals of the cathedral
The portals of heaven
The portals of success

Gate

(electronics) The controlling terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).

Portal

A site that the owner positions as an entrance to other sites on the internet;
A portal typically has search engines and free email and chat rooms etc.

Gate

In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into.

Portal

A short vein that carries blood into the liver

Gate

(metalworking) The channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mould; the ingate.

Gate

The waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece. Also written geat and git.

Gate

(cricket) The gap between a batsman's bat and pad.
Singh was bowled through the gate, a very disappointing way for a world-class batsman to get out.

Gate

(cinematography) A mechanism, in a film camera and projector, that holds each frame momentarily stationary behind the aperture.

Gate

(flow cytometry) A line that separates particle type-clusters on two-dimensional dot plots.

Gate

A tally mark consisting of four vertical bars crossed by a diagonal, representing a count of five.

Gate

A way, path.

Gate

(obsolete) A journey.

Gate

A street; now used especially as a combining form to make the name of a street e.g. "Briggate" (a common street name in the north of England meaning "Bridge Street") or Kirkgate meaning "Church Street".

Gate

Manner; gait.

Gate

(transitive) To keep something inside by means of a closed gate.

Gate

(transitive) To punish, especially a child or teenager, by not allowing them to go out.

Gate

To open a closed ion channel.

Gate

(transitive) To furnish with a gate.

Gate

(transitive) To turn (an image intensifier) on and off selectively as needed, or to avoid damage from excessive light exposure. See autogating.

Gate

A large door or passageway in the wall of a city, of an inclosed field or place, or of a grand edifice, etc.; also, the movable structure of timber, metal, etc., by which the passage can be closed.

Gate

An opening for passage in any inclosing wall, fence, or barrier; or the suspended framework which closes or opens a passage. Also, figuratively, a means or way of entrance or of exit.
Knowest thou the way to Dover?Both stile and gate, horse way and footpath.
Opening a gate for a long war.

Gate

A door, valve, or other device, for stopping the passage of water through a dam, lock, pipe, etc.

Gate

The places which command the entrances or access; hence, place of vantage; power; might.
The gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

Gate

In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into.

Gate

The channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mold; the ingate.

Gate

A way; a path; a road; a street (as in Highgate).
I was going to be an honest man; but the devil has this very day flung first a lawyer, and then a woman, in my gate.

Gate

Manner; gait.

Gate

To supply with a gate.

Gate

To punish by requiring to be within the gates at an earlier hour than usual.

Gate

A door-like movable barrier in a fence or wall

Gate

A computer circuit with several inputs but only one output that can be activated by particular combinations of inputs

Gate

Total admission receipts at a sports event

Gate

Passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark

Gate

Supply with a gate;
The house was gated

Gate

Control with a valve or other device that functions like a gate

Gate

Restrict (school boys') movement to the dormitory or campus as a means of punishment

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