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a door with ambitions — too dramatic to just be a hallway
means An entrance, gateway, or doorway — especially a grand or significant one, or, in digital life, a website that serves as a main point of access to information and services.
from From Latin 'porta,' a city gate or door, via the medieval Latin 'portale' meaning a porch or grand entrance — a cousin of 'port' (a harbor, where ships pass through) and the verb 'to import' (to carry through a doorway). The word arrived in English through Old French in the medieval period, originally for the imposing arched gateways of churches and castles. Its leap to magic doorways and computer screens came much later, but the bones of the word always meant: a way through.
- latin roots
- From porta, the gate of a fortified city
- video game star
- Built an entire hit franchise on holes in walls
- web era
- 90s sites called themselves portals to feel cosmic
- physics tease
- Wormholes are nature's unverified version, still missing
- medical sneak
- Your liver has a portal vein, no magic required
portal 2 — valve's 2011 puzzle video game sequel with over 4 million copies sold
cern large hadron collider — swiss particle physics facility where scientists search for portals between dimensions
stargate in egypt — ancient structure at abydos temple theorized by fringe archaeologists as an interdimensional doorway