panel

plural panels · alternative pannel

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. architectureA 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.

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   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.

   A detailed review of the organisation by an independent panel was released last week, revealing a culture of misogyny and bullying.

   2025 April 5, John Simpson, “Police Federation under fire for backing ‘unsackable’ rogue cops”, in The Observer

3. A portion of text or other material within a book, newspaper, web page, etc. set apart from the main body or separated by a border.
4. comicsAn individual frame or drawing in a comic.

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

5. computingA type of GUI widget, such as a control panel.

   admin panel

6. lawA document containing the names of persons summoned as jurors by the sheriff.

   To this end the sheriff returns his compulsive process , the writ of habeas corpora, or distringas , with the panel of jurors annexed, to the judge's officer in court.

   1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC

7. lawThe whole jury.
8. Scots lawA prisoner arraigned for trial at the bar of a criminal court.

   [I]t remains only to examine the Relevancy of the two general exculpatory Defences pled for the Pannells.

   1737, “Information for His Majesty’s Advocate, and Mr. Hugh Forbes, Advocate, Procurator Fiscal of the High Court of Admiralty, against Thomas McAdam, and James Long, Pannels”, in Extract of the Proceedings before James Graham of Airth, Esq; Judge of the High Court of Admiralty in Scotland, in the Action at the Instance of Duncan Forbes, Esq; His Majesty’s Advocate, and Mr. Hugh Forbes, Advocate, Procurator Fiscal of the Said High Court, against Thomas McAdams Souldier, and James Long Corporal, in the Regiment of Foot Commanded by Colonel —— Hamilton. Laid before the House Pursuant to Their Lordship’s Order April 18, 1737, London: Printed by John Baskett, […], →OCLC, page 12

9. obsoleteA piece of cloth serving as a saddle.

   A panel and wanty, packsaddle and ped, with line to fetch litter, and halters for hed

   1557 February 13 (Gregorian calendar), Thomas Tusser, A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie, London: […] Richard Tottel, →OCLC; republished London: […] Robert Triphook, […], and William Sancho, […], 1810, →OCLC

10. A soft pad beneath a saddletree to prevent chafing.
11. A board having its edges inserted in the groove of a surrounding frame.

    the panel of a door

12. businessOne of the faces of a hewn stone.
13. businessA slab or plank of wood used instead of a canvas for painting on.
14. businessA heap of dressed ore.
15. businessOne of the districts divided by pillars of extra size, into which a mine is laid off in one system of extracting coal.
16. businessA plain strip or band, as of velvet or plush, placed at intervals lengthwise on the skirt of a dress, for ornament.
17. A portion of a framed structure between adjacent posts or struts, as in a bridge truss.
18. UKhistoricalA list of doctors who could provide limited free healthcare prior to the introduction of the NHS.
19. medicineA group of tests or assays, a battery.

    A lipid panel measures three different types: low-density lipoprotein (LDL), high-density lipoprotein (HDL), and triglycerides.

    2009, Rick Daniels, Delmar's Guide to Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests, page 478

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    This panel of tests can also help in cases where leukemia or lymphoma suddenly takes a turn for the worse (crisis) by determining if a change in the type of cells is causing the problem.

    1997, Michael Brodin, Encyclopedia of Medical Tests, page 270

present singular third person panels · US participle present paneling · UK participle present panelling · US participle past paneled · US past paneled · UK participle past panelled · UK past panelled · alternative pannel

1. obsoletetransitiveTo enter (jury members) on an official list of jurors; to empanel.First known use 16th–19th c.
2. obsoletetransitiveTo fit (an animal, especially a mule or ass) with a panel or simple padded saddle.First known use 16th–19th c.

   The knight […] arose, and commanded Sancho to saddle his horse and pannel his ass immediately.

   1755, Miguel de Cervantes, translated by Tobias Smollett, Don Quixote, Volume One, II.5

3. transitiveTo fit (a room etc.) with panels.First known use 17th c.