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portal

   Also found in: Dictionary/thesaurus, Medical, Financial, Acronyms, Wikipedia, Hutchinson 0.26 sec.

A Web "supersite" that provides a variety of services including Web search, news, free e-mail, discussion groups, shopping and links to other sites. The major general-purpose Web portals are Yahoo!, MSN and AOL. Many portals allow the home page to be personalized (see personal portal). Prior to the Web, CompuServe and AOL functioned as portals, aggregating information from various sources.

The Vortal
Portals also serve vertical markets. The vertical portal (vortal) provides news and articles for a particular industry such as IT, banking or insurance. It may also include general information such as top news stories and weather. See corporate portal, business intelligence portal, vertical portal and portal server.

1.PORTAL - Process-Oriented Real-Time Algorithmic Language.

["PORTAL - A Pascal-based Real-Time Programming Language", R. Schild in Algorithmic Languages, J.W. deBakker et al eds, N-H 1981].
2.(World-Wide Web)portal - A website that aims to be an entry point to the World-Wide Web, typically offering a search engine and/or links to useful pages, and possibly news or other services. These services are usually provided for free in the hope that users will make the site their default home page or at least visit it often. Popular examples are Yahoo and MSN. Most portals on the Internet exist to generate advertising income for their owners, others may be focused on a specific group of users and may be part of an intranet or extranet. Some may just concentrate on one particular subject, say technology or medicine, and are known as a vertical portals.


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But on one side of the portal, and rooted almost at the threshold, was a wild rose-hush, covered, in this month of June, with its delicate gems, which might be imagined to offer their fragrance and fragile beauty to the prisoner as he went in, and to the condemned criminal as he came forth to his doom, in token that the deep heart of Nature could pity and be kind to him.
The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
I had believed in the best parlour as a most elegant saloon; I had believed in the front door, as a mysterious portal of the Temple of State whose solemn opening was attended with a sacrifice of roast fowls; I had believed in the kitchen as a chaste though not magnificent apartment; I had believed in the forge as the glowing road to manhood and independence.
Great Expectations by Dickens, Charles View in context
But all the estuaries of great rivers have their fascination, the attractiveness of an open portal.
The Mirror of the Sea by Conrad, Joseph View in context
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