pan|el

pan|el «PAN uhl», noun, verb, -eled, -el|ing or (especially British) -elled, -el|ling.

–n.

1. a strip or surface that is different in some way from what is around it. A panel is often sunk below or raised above the rest, and used for a decoration. Panels may be in a door or other woodwork, or on large pieces of furniture, or made as parts of a dress. SYNONYM(S): section.

2. a group formed for discussion: »

A panel of experts gave its opinion on ways to solve the traffic problem.

3. a) a list of persons called as jurors. b) the members of a jury.

4. a) one section of a switchboard. b) the whole, or a section of, an instrument board containing the controls and indicators used in operating an automobile, aircraft, computer, or other mechanism.

5. = panel truck. (Cf. ↑panel truck)

6. a) a picture, photograph, or design much longer than wide. b) the frame of a cartoon or one of the frames of a comic strip.

7. a) a thin wooden board used as a surface for oil painting, sometimes made of several pieces fastened together. b) a painting on such a board.

8. the space in a framework between two posts or struts, such as the space in a fence or rail between two posts.

9. the space between raised bands on the back of a book.

10. a compartment or division of a coal mine separated from the rest by thick masses of coal.

11. a rectangular section of the hull of a rigid airship between two transverse and two longitudinal girders in the frame.

12. list of physicians in Great Britain available for the treatment of persons paying for health insurance.

13. a) a pad or cushion used as a saddle. b) the pad or stuffed lining of a saddle.

–v.t.

1. to furnish or decorate with panels; arrange in panels: »

The walls of the dining room were paneled halfway to the ceiling with oak.

2. to fit or place as a panel in its frame.

3. to list for jury duty; select (a jury).

╂[< Old French panel piece < Vulgar Latin pannellus (diminutive) < Latin pannus piece of cloth. Compare etym. under pane. (Cf. ↑pane)]