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  2. Isekai - Wikipedia

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    Isekai (Japanese: 異世界 transl. 'different world', 'another world', or 'other world') is a subgenre of portal fantasy.It includes novels, light novels, films, manga, anime, and video games that revolve around a displaced person or people who are transported to and have to survive in another world, such as a fantasy world, game world, or parallel universe without the possibility of ...

  3. Synonym - Wikipedia

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    Synonym list in cuneiform on a clay tablet, Neo-Assyrian period. A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means exactly or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in a given language. For example, in the English language, the words begin, start, commence, and initiate are all synonyms of one another: they are synonymous. The ...

  4. Parallel universes in fiction - Wikipedia

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    Portal 2 (2011), an action-adventure video game, features a game-mode entitled "Perpetual Testing Initiative" (PeTI), where a plot item features protagonist "Bendy" through thousands of different worlds of which character Cave Johnson exist in different roles entitled "The Multiverse", and the PeTI's parallel universes are different from the ...

  5. Thesaurus - Wikipedia

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    Thesaurus. A thesaurus ( pl.: thesauri or thesauruses ), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where you can find different words with same meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms ...

  6. Category:Portal fantasy - Wikipedia

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    A portal-quest fantasy typically tends to be a quest -type narrative, whose main challenge is navigating the fantastical world. Notable examples include L. Frank Baum 's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900), C. S. Lewis ' The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1950), and Stephen R. Donaldson 's late-1970s series The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant .

  7. Portal (series) - Wikipedia

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    Portal is a series of first-person puzzle-platform video games developed by Valve.Set in the Half-Life universe, the two main games in the series, Portal (2007) and Portal 2 (2011), center on a woman, Chell, forced to undergo a series of tests within the Aperture Science Enrichment Center by a malicious artificial intelligence, GLaDOS, that controls the facility.

  8. Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals - Wikipedia

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    "Portal" is an archaic word which means "doorway", so a portal is a form of entrance. A good synonym for a Wikipedia Portal is "signposted doorway to knowledge". Portals serve as entrance points for topics which extend across many related articles, but with more depth and engagement than a list of links.

  9. Portable toilet - Wikipedia

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    Portable toilet. A portable or mobile toilet (colloquial terms: thunderbox, porta-john, porta-potty or portaloo) is any type of toilet that can be moved around, some by one person, some by mechanical equipment such as a truck and crane. Most types do not require any pre-existing services or infrastructure, such as sewerage, and are completely ...