Dictionary Definition
panel
Noun
1 sheet that forms a distinct (usually flat)
section or component of something
2 a committee appointed to judge a competition
[syn: jury]
3 (law) a group of people summoned for jury
service (from whom a jury will be chosen) [syn: venire]
4 a group of people gathered for a special
purpose as to plan or discuss an issue or judge a contest etc
5 a pad placed under a saddle
6 (computer science) a small temporary window in
a graphical user interface that appears in order to request
information from the user; after the information has been provided
the user dismisses the box with `okay' or `cancel' [syn: dialog
box]
7 electrical device consisting of an insulated
panel containing switches and dials and meters for controlling
other electrical devices; "he checked the instrument panel";
"suddenly the board lit up like a Christmas tree" [syn: control
panel, instrument
panel, control
board, board]
Verb
1 decorate with panels; "panel the walls with
wood"
2 select from a list; "empanel prospective
jurors" [syn: empanel,
impanel] [also: panelling, panelled]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- /pænəɫ/
- Rhymes: -ænəl
Noun
- 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
- 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...
Translations
rectangular section of a surface
- German: Verkleidung , Platte
group of people gathered to judge, interview,
discuss etc
- German: Diskussionsrunde
- Chinese: 盤區, 盘区; 鑲板, 镶板
- Dutch: paneel
- French: panneau , ,
- Greek: επιτροπή
- Italian: pannello (1), giuria (2)
- Japanese: パネル (paneru)
- Korean: 널 (neol), 널판지 (neolpanji)
- Portuguese: painel
- Romanian: panou
- Russian: группа (gruppa), панель (panel')
- Spanish: panel , entrepaño
Verb
to panel (panelled, panelling; US paneled, paneling)- to fit with panels
Spanish
Noun
Derived terms
Extensive Definition
Panel can refer to:
- A committee or jury used to decide some matter. In a legal context it may refer to a subset of a full set of appeal court judges, in contrast to an En banc hearing, which involves them all.In accident investigations, a full investigation may involve sub-panels with expertise in differing areas, in the aircraft context perhaps covering avionics, structures, engines and so on.
- Control panel (engineering), a flat area containing controls and indicators. Commonly found in aircraft but may be associated with the operation of any machinery
- Panel painting, in art, either one element of a multi-element piece of art, such as a triptych, a piece of sequential art such as a graphic novel or comic strip, or a wooden panel used to paint a picture on
- breaker panel, a flat area containing electrical circuit breakers
- panel data, a longitudinal statistical study in which one group of individuals are interviewed at intervals over a given period of time
- Panel (comics), a single image in a comic book, comic strip or cartoon; also, a comic strip containing one such image
- A flat or sculptured area that is part of a larger structure such as a piece of furniture or one element of a multi-panel screen.
- Panel (computer software), a widget or a control panel
- Panel Switch, a type of electromechanical telephone switching system developed by the Bell System in the 1920s
- Structural insulated panel, a building system for construction
- The Panel, an Australian talk show
- The Panel (Ireland), an Irish talk show
- A committee in the Legislative Council of Hong Kong specialises on specific areas, known elsewhere as select committee or standing committee
panel in German: Panel
panel in Spanish: Panel
panel in Norwegian: Panel
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
accessory, assemblee, assembly, assignation, at home,
ball, barrier, blue-ribbon jury,
brattice, brawl, buffer, buffer state, bulkhead, bumper, caucus, cloison, coat, coating, collision mat, collop, colloquium, commission, committee, conclave, concourse, congregation, congress, conventicle, convention, convocation, council, country, covering, cushion, cut, dance, date, deal, defendant, diaphragm, diet, discussion group, disk, dissepiment, divide, dividing line, dividing
wall, division,
eisteddfod, fence
off, fender, festivity, fete, feuille, film, flap, foil, fold, forgathering, forum, gathering, get-together, grand
jury, housewarming,
hung jury, impanel,
impanel a jury, inquest,
interseptum,
jury, jury list, jury of
inquest, jury of matrons, jury panel, lamella, lamina, laminated glass,
laminated wood, lap,
leaf, levee, litigant, litigationist, litigator, mat, meet, meeting, membrane, midriff, midsection, open forum,
pad, pane, paries, parties litigant,
partition, party, party wall, patina, peel, pellicle, petit jury, plaintiff, plait, plank, plate, plating, plenum, ply, plywood, police jury, prom, property line, quorum, rally, rasher, reception, rendezvous, round table,
safety glass, scum,
seance, separate, separation, septulum, septum, session, sessions, set apart, sheet, shindig, shock pad, sit-in,
sitting, skin, slab, slat, slice, soiree, special jury, suitor, symposium, synod, table, tablet, trial jury, turnout, veneer, venire, wafer, wall, wall off, witness