panel

Meaning

Noun

1. A (usually) rectangular section of a surface, or of a covering or of a wall, fence etc.
2. A (usually) rectangular section of a surface, or of a covering or of a wall, fence etc.
3. A group of people gathered to judge, interview, discuss etc. as on a television or radio broadcast for example.
4. 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.
5. An individual frame or drawing in a comic.
6. A type of GUI widget, such as a control panel.
7. A document containing the names of persons summoned as jurors by the sheriff.
8. The whole jury.
9. A prisoner arraigned for trial at the bar of a criminal court.
10. (obsolete) A piece of cloth serving as a saddle.
11. A soft pad beneath a saddletree to prevent chafing.
12. A board having its edges inserted in the groove of a surrounding frame.
13. One of the faces of a hewn stone.
14. A slab or plank of wood used instead of a canvas for painting on.
15. A heap of dressed ore.
16. One of the districts divided by pillars of extra size, into which a mine is laid off in one system of extracting coal.
17. A plain strip or band, as of velvet or plush, placed at intervals lengthwise on the skirt of a dress, for ornament.
18. A portion of a framed structure between adjacent posts or struts, as in a bridge truss.
19. (British, historical) A list of doctors who could provide limited free healthcare prior to the introduction of the NHS.
20. A group of tests or assays, a battery.

Verb

1. (obsolete, transitive) To enter (jury members) on an official list of jurors; to empanel.
2. (obsolete, transitive) To fit (an animal, especially a mule or ass) with a panel or simple padded saddle.
3. (transitive) To fit (a room etc.) with panels.

Synonyms

board

jury

plate

wainscot

control panel

slab

committee

panelling

dashboard

venire

sign

group

tile

glass

empanel

leaf

instrument panel

pane

impanel

mirror

🪞

switchboard

control board

body

width

grid

gore

sheet

blackboard

plight

clad

set up

stuffing

pad

line

list

dialog box

caucus

banner

inlay

plank

billboard

flap

decorate

breadth

dado

cushioning

batten

covering

cover

hurdle

Translations

panneau

painel

pannello

panel

tablero

paneel

Platte

beschot

Tafel

tavola

instrumentenbord

Paneel

dashboard

pano

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈpænəl/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: panel

Cognate with Old English: fana

In summary

From Middle English panel (“piece of cloth, saddle pad, pane of glass, piece of ice, part, division, jury list, jury members”), from Anglo-Norman panel, panelle (“piece of cloth, saddle cushion”), from Vulgar Latin *pannellus, diminutive of Latin pannus (“cloth, rag, garment”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂n- (“fabric”). Cognate with Old English fana (“a piece of cloth, patch, banner, flag, vane”). Doublet of vane.