wall panel
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2.7
- noun
- /wɔl ˈpænəl/
:
panel de pared
- The contractor installed decorative wall panels to enhance the room's aesthetics.
- wall panels and sculpture
Examples
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Kirk rushes in and rips off one of the large wall panels.
Fiction book (1994) -
The goal of nkanda and its spectacular display of masks, wall panels, and sculpture is to instruct the Nkanu youth who take part in the rite.
Academic text (2001) -
The wall panel was wide open; the hinged part swung back into the operating room.
Fiction book (1993) -
Animal sculptures are also displayed in front of the wall panels in the kikaku.
Academic text (2001) -
Dr. Van Damme also filmed two ritual specialists as they created a mask and a wall panel.
Academic text (2001) -
Together, the wall panels and figural sculpture function as a visual language that can be read by those educated within nkanda.
Academic text (2001) -
The exhibition includes a five-part sequence of wall panels that is full of power references (Fig. 1).
Academic text (2001) -
Titus noticed that the discreet digits 39 lit up in blue on a wall panel a moment after Lash's spoken words.
Fiction book (2001) -
The leopard is a metaphor for leadership and the authority of the traditional chief; like the animal's representation on wall panels, the mask reminds the initiates to respect the authority of elders, local leaders, and ancestors.
Academic text (2001) -
The parquet floor, the great wall panels, the allegorical ceiling dangling its chandeliers: all must be erected and connected, suffusing and refracting golden light.
Fiction book (1995)
Synonyms
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2.9
A large flat board used to make inside walls and ceilings
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2.7
A flat part of a door or wall often made of wood
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3.9
A large flat board that covers inside walls to make a smooth surface
How Open
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound is compositionally derived from 'wall' (vertical surface) + 'panel' (a shaped piece or control surface), so its basic meaning — a panel on or attached to a wall — is directly inferable. While the definition specifies an electronic control/interface, that domain-specific nuance does not block comprehension of the core concept for a B1 learner who knows both constituents.
Etymology
Wall panel comes from building work where a flat board, a panel, is fixed to a wall to cover or decorate part of it. Imagine a rectangular board put into the wall, so it means 'a flat piece that forms part of a wall'.