Betekenis van portal In het Nederlands

• 0 a way to get or do something:

  • The laptop is my portal to the outside world.

  • The Post Office has lost any sense that its core business is to provide a portal to delivery services.

  • A number of large access providers offer portals to the Web for their own users.

  • There are a huge number of knit and crochet resources online, from trade association portals to blogs.

• 1 an entrance to a building, especially a large or important one:

  • Carrell's name remains above the portal to this day.

  • Passing through the portals of the BBC for the first time, she felt slightly nervous.

• 2 relating to an opening to an organ in the body, especially the opening where blood vessels (= thin tubes that carry blood) enter the liver (= a large organ that cleans the blood):

  • A liver biopsy reveals portal fibrosis.

  • Nerve fibres are abundant in the liver, particularly in the portal triads.

  • Ultimately these veins drain into the portal system.

  • The problem sometimes results from obstruction of the portal circulation.

  • Portal hypertension is a common related condition that is caused by liver damage.

  • Clotting time increases because the high portal pressure backs up blood into the spleen, destroying platelets.

• 3 a large and often highly decorated entrance to a building:

  • We entered the side portal of the cathedral.

• 4 a page on the World Wide Web that users can change so it shows information they want to see:

  • The portal lets you access specific information from anywhere in the site.

• 5 a website that collects information on a particular subject and has links (= connections) to other websites with related information:

  • Welcome to the Murray Portal, an educational resource for all those involved in teaching and learning.