1A flat or curved component, typically rectangular, that forms or is set into the surface of a door, wall, or ceiling.

1. 1.1 A thin piece of metal forming part of the outer shell of a vehicle.
   车辆外壳部分的金属板
   body panels for the car trade

   为汽车行业生产的车体板。

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   • The inner and outer hood panels formed in-house are allegedly the auto industry's largest aluminum stampings.
   • From the front bumper to the A-pillar, practically the whole car, including the body panels, is aluminum.
   • As shown in Figure 12 the tyre would hit the side of the barrier first and then the bumper and body panels of the front left end would contact the upper part of the barrier.
   • Nowadays, a vehicle body may use panels made of steel, aluminum and plastic composite all on the same platform.
   • Low carbon steel is mainly used in stiffness dominant upper structure parts and also close out panels in the underbody.
   • Researchers are not optimistic about adopting aluminum body panels for mainstream cars.
   • The material, which is used to make everything from boat hulls to bathtubs, is a perfect application for automotive outer panels, he says.
   • Mounted on the aluminum chassis is a steel framework upon which fiberglass body panels are fitted.
   • In terms of the body sheet metal, the panel gaps are kept to 3 mm, which is certainly the sort of thing that one wouldn't expect of a car at this price point.
   • And, arguably, plastics is the choice for body panels on specialty vehicles.
   • He cites a project in India that needed to cost-effectively mold interior panels for an upcoming vehicle program.
   • Other aluminum panels on the body shell are the roof, hood, and front fenders.
   • This vehicle features an extruded aluminum space frame and thermoplastic body panels.
   • The front-end amounts to an aluminum space-frame, with all panels from the windshield pillars forward composed of aluminum.
   • The ferocious weather inflicted severe damage to body panels and windscreens.
   • They are followed in quick succession by the center-bearing driveshaft, exhaust system and underbody panels.
   • The black lower body panels and roofline disguise the high beltline and make the car look shorter and sleeker than it really is.
   • Pearlescent systems configured for molded-in color will help automakers extend the use of plastics from small parts and bumpers to body panels.
   • It featured an aluminum monocoque with plastic body panels, possibly attached with adhesives.
   • At the same time, it shares no body panels with the bigger car.
2. 1.2 A piece of material forming part of a garment.
   （衣服上的）镶片；嵌条
   the dress has a panel of lace over the bodice

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   • It was made of the whitest silky material, with panels of lace on the bodice and right round the full skirt.
   • Bias-cut panels and an allover pattern camouflage the middle.
   • Sweater panels come in varying widths and lengths so plan carefully when buying and cutting.
   • Caps are 12.5 oz. wool blend and have buckram-backed front panels, pre-curved visors, and grey undervisors.
   • Figure-hugging silhouettes are accented by zippered pockets, panels and side vents.
   • You have to put on the costume when you're learning and rehearsing the piece, because it has so much material, so many panels.
   • Blue panels are stitched around the sleeves and the hem of the dress.
   • Jeffrey, who was arrested and charged last March, wore a hooded white sweatshirt with blue shoulder panels, and a pair of black track pants.
   • She carried through that expertise to intricate knitwear, which included a poloneck woven from ribbed panels structured like the sections of a corset.
   • What lady does not relish the plush touch of ermine on her cheek, the airy intricacies of a panel of lace, or the cloud-like embrace of a velveteen settee?
   • The nylon mesh side and back panels match, naturally, as do the sewn eyelets, and it features a classic trucker style plastic strap closure.
   • Fine embroidered dress panels were considered works of art and as such were handed down from mother to daughter.
   • The side panels are one piece for easy movement.
   • A simplified elastic laminate is made from nonwovens and is especially suitable for side panels of training pant garments or the like.
   • Some unusual stitching down the front panels makes this shirt difficult to iron, so it tends to get forgotten about as it slowly sinks down the ironing pile.
   • Glimpses of stretch ruching feature in panels on dresses, particularly waistlines.
   • Modesty panels of chiffon, where none might have existed before were seen on bodice fronts.
   • The pants have an elastic drawcord waist, articulated knees, stretch panels on the waist, and a back zip pocket.
   • Even the string bikini is striking with its stitched and pleated color-block panels.
   • Ruffle necklines are big too, as well as fluted sleeves, hem flounces and ruched side panels.
3. 1.3 A decorated area within a larger design containing a separate subject.
   装饰板
   the central panel depicts the Crucifixion

   中央装饰板上画着基督殉难画像。

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   • Most panels depict eyes, from photographs, magazines and other artworks perhaps.
   • The central panel of this intact triptych altarpiece depicts the Mystic Marriage of St Catherine, together with other saints, flanked by donors.
   • The assumption that the work is a physiognomic likeness has driven scholarly efforts to identify the panel's subject.
   • He was inspired by her beauty and German heritage to create several designs for the mirror panels with images derived from Germanic folk art and mythology.
   • Yet, being multipartite, they call to mind the predella panels of early Renaissance altarpieces.
   • However, because paintings played a secondary role in Gonse's book, his discussion on the panel appeared deep within his text.
   • Ironically enough, debate continues over the division of labor and the artist responsible for the design of the central panel.
   • Each format is divided into panels, reminiscent of the way in which she has arranged the separate panels of her paintings.
   • In Mitchell's multipart paintings, the panels were worked separately but were meant to be seen together.
   • The panels are separated from one another, and so the painting feels like an allegory of psychic completion, complicated by ambiguities of sex.
   • Another composite scene, it is divided into a central panel, two large curved sections in the lower areas of the vault, and seven small curved sections.
   • There is no evidence, other than that within panels of the window itself, for the problems posed by the later incorporation of the heraldry of bishop and chapter within it.
   • One of the first images one comes across when entering the gallery space is a triptych of a class portrait, interrupted by the central panel depicting a plant form.
   • Van Eyck's extant single-panel portraits are all decorated on the reverse, whereas the central panels of his surviving triptychs are not.
   • While the main panel of the altarpiece portrays a story of communal inclusion, the predella bears a story of social exclusion.
   • The towering central panel is set within a classical arch and shows the Virgin and Child enthroned, with the infant Saint John the Baptist to one side.
   • The right-hand surface of each wedge is part of a single image, while the left-hand panels form a separate composite image.
   • By using retarding agents of different strengths within the same panel, decorative features can be created by varying the depth of the etch on elements of a pattern or design.
   • Also challenging our sense of perception are large lenticular panels of Japanese cartoon figures juxtaposed on historical Chinese sites.
   • It is conceivable, of course, that the Louvre panel actually depicts its subject as he appeared at the time during which it was created.
4. 1.4 One of several drawings making up a cartoon strip.
   连环画中的一幅
   the cartoon strip has four panels

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   • Several people have written to clue me in to the meaning of the second panel of the dude cartoon.
   • She has blown up some of the individual drawings and panels from the book, taking them out of context, yet most of the pages themselves are miniaturised so you can barely see them.
   • I began to dislike doing daily cartoons: four panels and a joke.
   • Comics use this technique on every page in a myriad of different directions not only between panels but within the artwork itself.
   • This cartoon's last four panels are absolutely audacious, and there's no way any newspaper would print them.
   • These works resemble what you would get if you had a comic-strip panel or cartoon as your vehicle for getting to your ideal.
   • In panel four she held them on a platter like a hostess serving up hors d' oeuvres.
   • Back in the fifties I worked on a number of eight by four panels and can remember no great snags in the painting or the subsequent display and longevity of the results.
   • The layout is unimaginative, just a basic three or four panels per page.

2A flat board on which instruments or controls are fixed.

控制板。

3A small group of people brought together to investigate or decide on a particular matter.

面试小组。

1. 3.1British A list of medical practitioners registered in a district as accepting patients under the National Health Service or, formerly, the National Insurance Act.
   〈英〉国民保健制度（原国民健康保险）医师名单
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   • The National Insurance Act of 1911 gave, for the first time, entitlement to free access to a general practitioner working on the doctor's panel.
   • Panel patients frequently queued at a back door to enter a cramped, barely furnished surgery, there to wait their turn for the doctor during fixed surgery hours.
2. 3.2North American A list of available jurors or a jury.
   〈主北美〉陪审员名单；陪审团
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   • He thus dropped several Protestant jurors from the panel and replaced them with Catholics.
   • Part of the process of assembling juries involves removing from the panel of jurors those persons who have a close connection with the legal system by virtue of their employment.
   • I wait to hear the first panel of potential jurors being called to a courtroom.
   • A challenge to the array involved a party objecting to the composition of the panel of potential jurors from which the trial jury would be selected.
   • The jury panel felt that system integration was much more prevalent than in previous years.
   • A printed notice, in similar terms, is handed to all members of the jury panel when they commence their duties.
   • The tedious process of choosing a panel of 12 jurors was enlivened yesterday when it emerged the Jackson team planned to call a host of Hollywood celebrities in his defence.
   • Do you think X-generationers are making up an ever-increasing number of people who are making up panels of jurors?
   • It is also not uncommon in medium to long cases, for jurors on the panel from which the final random selection will be made, to be asked to answer a short questionnaire.
   • Typically a panel of potential jurors is drawn from the jury room randomly.
   • The courts don't keep records of the racial balance of jury panels.
   • The randomness of the jury which s.80 of the Constitution contemplates is randomness at the point of creation of the panel of jurors from whom the ultimate jury is chosen.
   • Whereas jury panels, in exceptional cases, can be vetted, this was not such a case.
   • After both sides present their evidence and argue their cases, a panel of jurors must weigh what they have heard and decide whether or not the accused person is guilty as charged.
   • The panel of anonymous jurors deliberated for 13 days over a four-week period.
   • We do not have the luxury of the system, which can provide instant access to litigants, in terms of courtrooms, judges and jury panels.
   • Because then they get to purge the jury panel of anyone who expresses qualms about the death penalty.
   • And sometimes before a trial even begins, you do your most critical work, screening through a jury panel.
   • But it's back to the drawing board for this jury, with a new panel member, after juror No.7 was dismissed yesterday.
   • The significance of the advancement was immediately apparent to the juror panel.

4Scots Law
A person or people charged with an offence.

Cover (a wall or other surface) with panels.