panel
noun
[ ˈpan(ə)l ]
• a flat or curved component, typically rectangular, that forms or is set into the surface of a door, wall, or ceiling.
• "a layer of insulating material should be placed between the panels and the wall"
• a flat board on which instruments or controls are fixed.
• "a control panel"
• a small group of people brought together to investigate or decide on a particular matter.
• "an interview panel"
• a person or people charged with an offence.
panel
verb
• cover (a wall or other surface) with panels.
• "we panelled the wall around the window"
Origin:
Middle English: from Old French, literally ‘piece of cloth’, based on Latin pannus ‘(piece of) cloth’. The early sense ‘piece of parchment’ was extended to mean ‘list’, whence the notion ‘advisory group’. panel (sense 1 of the noun) derives from the late Middle English sense ‘distinct section of a surface’.
