What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Panel vs Multipanel - What's the difference?

panel | multipanel |

As a noun panel

is panel.

As an adjective multipanel is

having multiple panels.

panel

English

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.

    • Derived terms

    * panellist (UK), panelist (US) * panelled (UK), paneled (US) * panelling (UK), paneling (US)

    External links

    *

    Verb

  • to fit with panels

    • See also

    * instrument panel, control panel * panel beater * panel game * panel van

    Anagrams

    * * * * * ----

    multipanel

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Having multiple panels
  • * {{quote-news, year=2007, date=August 13, author=Roberta Smith, title=Elizabeth Murray, 66, Artist of Vivid Forms, Dies, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=In Ms. Murray’s mature work, eccentrically shaped or multipanel canvases fused Cubism’s shattered forms and Surrealism’s suggestive biomorphism with the scale and some of the angst of Abstract Expressionism and more than a touch of Disneyesque humor and motion. }}

    Anagrams

    *