portalとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From 中期英語 portal, porttol, from Old French portal and Medieval Latin portāle, from porta.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈpɔːtl̩/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈpɔːɹtl̩/, [ˈpʰɔːɹɾɫ̩]
• 韻: -ɔː(ɹ)təl

名詞

portal (plural portals)

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

   The local library, a portal of knowledge.

   • 2020 August 26, Tim Dunn, “Great railway bores of our time!”, in Rail, pages 48–49:

     Last, but very much not least, are the portals of the Ffestiniog Railway's Moelwyn Tunnel. The tunnel's story itself is well told - it was part of the preservationists' deviation required to get around a reservoir that had flooded the earlier route. But the reason for its inclusion here is that it is probably the most recently constructed, properly architected tunnel portal in Britain.

   1. A large primary adit as the main entrance to a mine.
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 aperture 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.

   Coordinate term: gate

   • 1667, John Milton, “Book III”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

     Thick with sparkling orient gems / The portal shone.

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.
10. (US college sports) The NCAA transfer portal, a database and compliance tool designed to facilitate student-athletes who wish to change schools.
11. (computer graphics) A connecting window between volumes, in portal rendering.

下位語

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

派生語

形容詞

portal (not comparable)

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

   the portal vein

派生語

動詞

portal (third-person singular simple present portals, present participle (US) portaling or (UK) portalling, simple past and past participle (US) portaled or (UK) portalled)

1. (science fiction, fantasy) To use a portal (magical or technological doorway).

参考

Further reading

• Category:Portals on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

アナグラム

• patrol, pratol

語源

From Old French portal and Medieval Latin portāle, from porta.

名詞

portal

1. a portal

派生した語

• English: portal

参照

• “portal, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.