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.

Noun

(en noun)

A storage closet either separate from, or built into, a wall.

(New England) cupboard

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(historical) A size of photograph, specifically one measuring 3?" by 5½".

* 1891 , , A Scandal In Bohemia , Norton (2005), p. 19,

Holmes took a note of it. “One other question,” said he. “Was the photograph a cabinet ?”

A group of advisors to a government or business entity.

(politics, often, capitalized) In parliamentary and some other systems of government, the group of ministers responsible for creating government policy and for overseeing the departments comprising the executive branch.

(archaic) A small chamber or private room.

* Prescott

Philip passed some hours every day in his father's cabinet.

(often capitalized) A collection of art or ethnographic objects.

(dialectal, Rhode Island) Milkshake.

(obsolete) A hut; a cottage; a small house.

* Spenser

Hearken a while from thy green cabinet , / The rural song of careful Colinet.