Caisson vs Panel - What's the difference?
caisson | panel |
(engineering) An enclosure, from which water can be expelled, in order to give access to underwater areas for engineering works etc.
* 2003 , (Bill Bryson), A Short History of Nearly Everything , BCA, p. 213:
The gate across the entrance to a dry dock.
(nautical) A floating tank that can be submerged, attached to an underwater object and then pumped out to lift the object by buoyancy; a camel.
(military) A two-wheeled, horse-drawn military vehicle used to carry ammunition (and a coffin at funerals).
(military) A large box to hold ammunition.
(military) A chest filled with explosive materials, used like a mine.
(architecture) A coffer.
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.
A group of people gathered to judge, interview, discuss etc. as on a television or radio broadcast for example.
An individual frame or drawing in a comic.
(legal) A document containing the names of persons summoned as jurors by the sheriff; hence, more generally, the whole jury.
(legal, Scotland) A prisoner arraigned for trial at the bar of a criminal court.
(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.
(masonry) One of the faces of a hewn stone.
(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.
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As nouns the difference between caisson and panel
is that caisson is (engineering) an enclosure, from which water can be expelled, in order to give access to underwater areas for engineering works etc while panel is panel.caisson
English
(wikipedia caisson)Noun
(en noun)- Caissons were enclosed dry chambers built on river beds to facilitate the construction of bridge piers.
Derived terms
* caisson diseaseAnagrams
* * ----panel
English
Noun
(en noun)- Behind the picture was a panel on the wall.
- Today's panel includes John Smith.
- The last panel of a comic strip usually contains a punchline.
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- (Burrill)
- the panel of a door
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