adjective.
Of or pertaining to a porta, especially the porta of the liver.
noun.
A door or gate; hence, a way of entrance or exit, especially one that is grand and imposing.
noun.
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noun.
The lesser gate, where there are two of different dimensions.
noun.
Formerly, a small square corner in a room separated from the rest of the apartment by wainscoting, forming a short passage to another apartment.
noun.
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.
noun.
The space, at one end, between opposite trusses when these are terminated by inclined braces.
noun.
A prayer book or breviary; a portass.
noun.
a combination of struts and ties which lie in the plane of the inclined braces at a portal, serving to transfer wind pressure from the upper parts of the trusses to an abutment or pier of the bridge.