panel

From Middle English panel, from Old French panel, from Latin pannus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpænəl/

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• Rhymes: -ænəl

panel (plural panels)

1. A (usually) rectangular section of a surface, or of a covering or of a wall, fence etc.

   Behind the picture was a panel on the wall.

   1. (architecture) A sunken compartment with raised margins, moulded or otherwise, as in ceilings, wainscotings, etc.
2. A group of people gathered to judge, interview, discuss etc. as on a television or radio broadcast for example.

   Today's panel includes John Smith.

   • 2018, VOA Learning English > China's Melting Glacier Brings Visitors, Adds to Climate Concerns

     The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recently reported that that rise is enough to melt 28 to 44 percent of glaciers worldwide.

3. An individual frame or drawing in a comic.

   The last panel of a comic strip usually contains a punchline.

4. (law) A document containing the names of persons summoned as jurors by the sheriff; hence, more generally, the whole jury.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Blackstone to this entry?)

5. (law, Scotland) A prisoner arraigned for trial at the bar of a criminal court.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Burrill to this entry?)

6. (obsolete) A piece of cloth serving as a saddle.
7. A soft pad beneath a saddletree to prevent chafing.
8. (joinery) A board having its edges inserted in the groove of a surrounding frame.

   the panel of a door

9. (masonry) One of the faces of a hewn stone.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Gwilt to this entry?)

10. (masonry) A slab or plank of wood used instead of a canvas for painting on.
11. (mining) A heap of dressed ore.
12. (mining) One of the districts divided by pillars of extra size, into which a mine is laid off in one system of extracting coal.
13. (dressmaking) A plain strip or band, as of velvet or plush, placed at intervals lengthwise on the skirt of a dress, for ornament.
14. A portion of a framed structure between adjacent posts or struts, as in a bridge truss.
15. (Britain, historical) A list of doctors who could provide limited free healthcare prior to the introduction of the NHS.

• control panel
• death panel
• instrument panel
• on the panel
• panel beater
• panel game
• panel truck
• panel van
• panellist (UK), panelist (US)
• panelled (UK), paneled (US)
• panelling (UK), paneling (US)
• solar panel
• thyroid panel

• Panel in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

panel (third-person singular simple present panels, present participle panelling or (US) paneling, simple past and past participle panelled or (US) paneled)

1. (transitive) To fit with panels.

• Alpen, Nepal, Palen, palen, penal, plane, plena

Borrowed from English panel, itself borrowed from Old French panel. Doublet of panneau.

• IPA^(key): /pa.nɛl/

panel m (plural panels)

1. panel (group of people)

• “panel” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Borrowed from English panel.[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈpɒnɛl]
• Hyphenation: pa‧nel

panel

1. panel (a large, prefabricated part of a house, such as a wall, roof)
2. panel (a prefabricated part of furniture)
3. panel (instrument panel, such as a dashboard)
4. panel (a group of people gathered to judge, interview, discuss etc. as on a television or radio broadcast for example)

• panelelem
• panelház
• panellakás

Borrowed from English panel.

panel m (invariable)

1. panel (various groups of people)

• Nepal

• panell, panele, panyll, panelle

From Old French panel, from pan, from Latin pannus; equivalent to pane +‎ -el.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpanəl/, /panˈɛːl/

panel (plural panelles)

1. A swatch or portion of textiles or cloth.
2. A cushion or cloth acting as cushioning under a saddle.
3. The people due to sit at a jury; a panel acting as jury
4. (rare) A pane or slab of a transparent material.
5. (rare) A portion or section.
6. (rare) A hawk's innards or digestive organs; the pannel.

• English: panel, pannel
• Scots: panel

• “panē̆l (n.(1).)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-05.
• “panel (n.(2))” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-05.

From Middle Low German panele (“wall covering”), and English panel (other senses)

panel n (definite singular panelet, indefinite plural panel or paneler, definite plural panela or panelene)

1. a panel (most senses, e.g. a wall panel, a panel of experts)

• solcellepanel

• “panel” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Middle Low German panele (“wall covering”), and English panel (other senses)

panel n (definite singular panelet, indefinite plural panel, definite plural panela)

1. a panel (most senses, e.g. a wall panel, a panel of experts)

• solcellepanel

• “panel” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Borrowed from English panel.

• IPA^(key): /paˈnel/
• Rhymes: -el

panel m (plural paneles)

1. panel

• panel solar