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# panel

«panel» in Mova's school dictionary: **A flat piece of wood, glass, metal or other material that…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a panel, panels)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A flat piece of wood, glass, metal or other material that is part of a door, wall or other surface. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/panel/#m1)

2) A board with switches, buttons or controls on it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/panel/#m2)

3) A small group of people chosen to give their opinion, answer questions or judge something. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/panel/#m3)

4) One picture box in a comic strip. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/panel/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In science and everyday life, solar panels turn sunlight into electricity; a control panel works a machine. In school, a panel of judges chooses the winners of a contest. In reading and art, a comic is made of panels that tell the story in order. Phrases: «solar panel», «control panel», «panel of judges», «fence panel».

### examples

- Solar panels on the roof make electricity from sunlight. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/panel/#x1)
- The door has four wooden panels. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/panel/#x2)
- The pilot checked the control panel. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/panel/#x3)
- A panel of judges chose the best poem. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/panel/#x4)
- The wind blew down a fence panel. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/panel/#x5)
- Draw your comic in six panels. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/panel/#x6)
- The car had a dent in its side panel. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/panel/#x7)
- A panel of experts answered our questions about space. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/panel/#x8)
- She got up after midnight, passed through the panel, and found a Beautiful brown bear’s hide hanging in the corner. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/panel/#x9)

### note

Countable. British «panelling», American «paneling» for many panels on a wall. A «panel» of people is one group, so «the panel is/are» are both used.

### In the corpora

- [Kick through a pile of yellow and red leaves and you are walking on a tree's old solar panels.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/335-the-garden-in-autumn-colours-conkers-webs-and-buried-nuts/1/)
- [Old roofs often have skylights and thin panels that break when stepped on, and a fall onto concrete can kill.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/75-dares-cliffs-roofs-tombstoning-railways-and-saying-no/8/)
- [A solar panel turns light straight into electricity; it makes less on a cloudy day and none at night.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/31-energy-what-makes-things-happen/12/)
- [Panel shows often invite guests who strongly disagree, because a row keeps people watching; the loudest guest is not always right.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/11-debates-and-rows-on-chat-shows/14/)
- [Almost all electricity, except from solar panels, comes from something spinning a generator.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/32-power-stations-and-the-grid/8/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «panel» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/panel/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.