Noun

(en noun)

A structure that bars passage.

An obstacle or impediment.

* {{quote-magazine, title=Towards the end of poverty

, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838, page=11, magazine=(The Economist) citation , passage=America’s poverty line is $63 a day for a family of four. In the richer parts of the emerging world $4 a day is the poverty barrier . But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 ([…]): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.}}

A boundary or limit.

Noun

(en noun)

A (usually) rectangular section of a surface, or of a covering or of a wall, fence etc.; (architecture) A sunken compartment with raised margins, moulded or otherwise, as in ceilings, wainscotings, 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.

An individual frame or drawing in a comic.

The last panel of a comic strip usually contains a punchline.

(legal) A document containing the names of persons summoned as jurors by the sheriff; hence, more generally, the whole jury.

(Blackstone)

(legal, Scotland) A prisoner arraigned for trial at the bar of a criminal court.

(Burrill)

(obsolete) A piece of cloth serving as a saddle.

A soft pad beneath a saddletree to prevent chafing.

(joinery) A board having its edges inserted in the groove of a surrounding frame.

the panel of a door

(masonry) One of the faces of a hewn stone.

(Gwilt)

(masonry) A slab or plank of wood used instead of a canvas for painting on.

(mining) A heap of dressed ore.

(mining) One of the districts divided by pillars of extra size, into which a mine is laid off in one system of extracting coal.

(dressmaking) A plain strip or band, as of velvet or plush, placed at intervals lengthwise on the skirt of a dress, for ornament.

A portion of a framed structure between adjacent posts or struts, as in a bridge truss.