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Pearl vs Panel - What's the difference?

pearl | panel |

As nouns the difference between pearl and panel

is that pearl is a shelly concretion, usually rounded, and having a brilliant luster, with varying tints, found in the mantle, or between the mantle and shell, of certain bivalve mollusks, especially in the pearl oysters and river mussels, and sometimes in certain univalves. It is usually due to a secretion of shelly substance around some irritating foreign particle. Its substance is the same as nacre, or mother-of-pearl. Round lustrous pearls are used in jewellery while panel is a (usually) rectangular section of a surface, or of a covering or of a wall, fence etc.; A sunken compartment with raised margins, moulded or otherwise, as in ceilings, wainscotings, etc.

As verbs the difference between pearl and panel

is that pearl is to set or adorn with pearls, or with mother-of-pearl. Used also figuratively while panel is to fit with panels.

As a proper noun Pearl

is {{given name|female|from=English}} from the English noun pearl.

pearl

English

(wikipedia pearl)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A shelly concretion, usually rounded, and having a brilliant luster, with varying tints, found in the mantle, or between the mantle and shell, of certain bivalve mollusks, especially in the pearl oysters and river mussels, and sometimes in certain univalves. It is usually due to a secretion of shelly substance around some irritating foreign particle. Its substance is the same as nacre, or mother-of-pearl. Round lustrous pearls are used in jewellery.
  • (figuratively) Something precious.
  • * Shakespeare
  • I see thee compassed with thy kingdom's pearl .
  • * 1920 , (Herman Cyril McNeile), Bulldog Drummond Chapter 1
  • Hugh helped himself to bacon. "My dear fellow, she can think what she likes so long as she continues to grill bacon like this. Your wife is a treasure, James—a pearl amongst women; and you can tell her so with my love."
  • A capsule of gelatin or similar substance containing liquid for e.g. medicinal application.
  • Nacre, or mother-of-pearl.
  • A whitish speck or film on the eye.
  • (Milton)
  • A fish allied to the turbot; the brill.
  • A light-colored tern.
  • One of the circle of tubercles which form the bur on a deer's antler.
  • (typography) Five-point size of type, between agate and diamond.
  • A fringe or border.
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To set or adorn with pearls, or with mother-of-pearl. Used also figuratively.
  • To cause to resemble pearls; to make into small round grains; as, to pearl barley.
  • To resemble pearl or pearls.
  • To give or hunt for pearls; as, to go pearling.
  • (surfing) to dig the nose of one's surfboard into the water, often on takeoff.
  • * 1999, Joanne VanMeter [http://www.letsplay.net/archive99/020399.shtml]:
  • Used a pointed tip today and learned why I kept pearling with my round tipped board. Round noses like to dig into the water, causing frustrating wipeouts.

    Derived terms

    (Terms derived from the noun "pearl") * cultured pearl * mabe pearl * mother-of-pearl * pearl ash * pearl diver * pearl barley * pearl cotton * pearl essence * pearl gray * pearl millet * pearl necklace * pearl of wisdom * pearl onion * pearl oyster * perlemoen * pearler * pearlescent * pearling * pearly * pearly king * pearly nautilus * pearly queen * pearly whites * seed pearl * sulfur pearl

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    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)

    Verb

  • to fit with panels
  • See also

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

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