panel

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A flat, usually rectangular piece forming a raised, recessed, or framed part of the surface in which it is set.
2. n. The space or section in a fence or railing between two posts.
3. n. A vertical section of fabric; a gore.
4. n. A thin wooden board, used as a surface for an oil painting.
5. n. A painting on such a board.
6. n. A board having switches or buttons to control an electric device.
7. n. An instrument panel.
8. n. A section of a telephone switchboard.
9. n. A cartoon drawing in a sequence of cartoons that form a narrative.
10. n. Law The complete list of persons summoned for jury duty.
11. n. Law Those persons selected from this list to compose a jury.
12. n. Law A jury.
13. n. A group of people gathered to plan or discuss an issue, judge a contest, or act as a team on a radio or television quiz program.
14. n. A discussion by such a group.
15. v. To cover or furnish with panels.
16. v. To decorate with panels.
17. v. To separate into panels.
18. v. Law To select or impanel (a jury).

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A piece, especially a rectangular piece, as of cloth, parchment, or wood. Specifically— A piece of cloth put on a horse's back to serve as a sort of saddle, or placed under a saddle to prevent the horse's back from being galled; also, a pad or pallet used as a saddle.
2. n. Formerly, the slip of parchment containing the names of those who were summoned to serve upon a jury; a jury-list. See def. 3.
3. n. In painting, a piece of wood, generally of oak, chestnut, or white poplar, on which a picture is painted as on canvas; also, a picture painted on such a piece of wood. The earliest paintings in oil were generally executed on panels, which were composed of various pieces of wood cemented together.
4. n. A surface or compartment of a surface more or less distinct from others: a term used more especially in architecture and the constructive arts. In particular— Any area slightly sunk below or raised above the general face of the surrounding work; a compartment of a wainscot or ceiling, or of the surface of a wall, etc., sometimes inclosing sculptured ornament.
5. n. In joinery, a tympanum or thin piece of wood, framed or received in a groove by two upright pieces or styles, and two transverse pieces or rails: as, the panels of doors, window-shutters, etc. See cut under door.
6. n. In masonry, one of the faces of a hewn stone.
7. n. In dress-making, an ornament of a skirt, consisting usually of a broad piece of stuff appliqué, or of embroidery, or the like, making a definite stripe on each side different from the rest of the skirt, leaving part of the original material between.
8. n. In bookbinding, a part of the side depressed below the general surface, or the space on the back between two bands.
9. n. In coal-mining, a separate compartment or area of a coal-seam, divided from the adjacent ones by thick masses or ribs of coal, 40, 50, or even 60 yards wide. Such panels may measure 300 feet or more on a side.
10. n. In law: The persons summoned to sit on a jury.
11. n. The jury selected for the trial of a cause.
12. n. In scots law, the accused person in a criminal action from the time of his appearance.
13. n. The stomach of a hawk.
14. n. Milit., a carriage for the transportation of a mortar and its bed.
15. n. In sporting, a rail in a post-and-rail fence.
16. n. In carpentry, a panel whose longer dimension is horizontal.
17. To place a panel or saddlecloth on; saddle.
18. To form with panels; divide into or decorate with panels: as, to panel a wainscot; to panel a dress.
19. To decorate with medallions or spaces of any shape framed and occupied by a design different from that of the rest of the ground.
20. In telegraphy, to arrange in parallel, as wires.
21. n. A heap of dressed ore.

Wiktionary

1. n. A (usually) rectangular section of a surface, or of a covering or of a wall, fence etc.
2. n. A group of people gathered to judge, interview, discuss etc. as on a television or radio broadcast for example.
3. n. In the comics medium, individual frame or drawing in a multiple-panel sequence
4. v. to fit with panels

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. (Arch.) A sunken compartment with raised margins, molded or otherwise, as in ceilings, wainscotings, etc.
2. n. A piece of parchment or a schedule, containing the names of persons summoned as jurors by the sheriff the whole group of persons summoned on a particular day, from whom a jury is to be selected; also, the jury selected from that group.
3. n. (Scots Law) A prisoner arraigned for trial at the bar of a criminal court.
4. n. Any group of persons selected to judge a contest, conduct a discussion, serve as advisers, or participate in any group activity in which they will provide information or make judgments.
5. n. Formerly, a piece of cloth serving as a saddle; hence, a soft pad beneath a saddletree to prevent chafing.
6. n. (Joinery) A board having its edges inserted in the groove of a surrounding frame.
7. n. (Masonry) One of the faces of a hewn stone.
8. n. (Painting) A slab or plank of wood upon which, instead of canvas, a picture is painted.
9. n. A heap of dressed ore.
10. n. One of the districts divided by pillars of extra size, into which a mine is laid off in one system of extracting coal.
11. n. (Dressmaking) A plain strip or band, as of velvet or plush, placed at intervals lengthwise on the skirt of a dress, for ornament.
12. n. A portion of a framed structure between adjacent posts or struts, as in a bridge truss.
13. n. (Aëronautics) A segment of an aëroplane wing. In a biplane the outer panel extends from the wing tip to the next row of posts, and is trussed by oblique stay wires.
14. v. To form in or with panels.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a soft pad placed under a saddle
2. n. a committee appointed to judge a competition
3. n. (law) a group of people summoned for jury service (from whom a jury will be chosen)
4. n. (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'
5. n. sheet that forms a distinct (usually flat and rectangular) section or component of something
6. n. electrical device consisting of a flat insulated surface that contains switches and dials and meters for controlling other electrical devices
7. v. decorate with panels
8. n. a group of people gathered for a special purpose as to plan or discuss an issue or judge a contest etc
9. n. a piece of cloth that is generally triangular or tapering; used in making garments or umbrellas or sails
10. v. select from a list