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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
panelling
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
oak
▪ She waited in a hall rich in oak panelling.
▪ I was ushered into a high-ceilinged room dark with oak panelling.
▪ I said my vows a bit too loud and they seemed to echo round the light oak panelling of the room.
▪ The house has fine oak panelling.
wood
▪ The wood panelling obviously deadened any noise from outside.
▪ Lightly score each vertically for wood panelling.
▪ There was an unappealing gloom inside and he could just make out the empty pews enclosed by wood panelling.
▪ Stripped or new brick makes a good kitchen background, so does tongue-and-groove wood panelling or panelling of wide wooden planks.
▪ The wood panelling was stripped of any varnish, its bareness somehow complementing the character of the chapel itself.
▪ Inside the quality finishes include cherry wood panelling, decorative plaster ceilings and marble floors.
▪ The wood panelling was thick with grime, and everywhere there was a film of dust.
▪ Yet the unvarnished wood panelling indicated it had to be another pew, this one set apart from the rest.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Her attention was transferred to the panelling.
▪ Lightly score each vertically for wood panelling.
▪ The decorations would have been very simple and little of the panelling survives.
▪ The room, with original Jacobean panelling, is sombre.
▪ The separate waist and rocker panelling were replaced by plain panelling, all painted red.
▪ The wood panelling obviously deadened any noise from outside.
▪ There was an unappealing gloom inside and he could just make out the empty pews enclosed by wood panelling.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
panelling

paneling \pan"el*ing\ (p[a^]n"[e^]l*[i^]ng), n.

  1. The act or process of forming in panels or decorating with panels. [Written also panelling.]

  2. The panels which decorate the walls of a room.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
panelling

also paneling, 1800, verbal noun from panel (v.).

Wiktionary
panelling

alt. The panels wherewith a surface (especially an indoor wall) is covered, considered collectively. n. The panels wherewith a surface (especially an indoor wall) is covered, considered collectively. vb. (present participle of panel English)

WordNet
panel

  1. v. decorate with panels; "panel the walls with wood"

  2. select from a list; "empanel prospective jurors" [syn: empanel, impanel]

  3. [also: panelling, panelled]

panelling

n. a panel or section of panels in a wall or door [syn: paneling, pane]

panel

  1. n. sheet that forms a distinct (usually flat) section or component of something

  2. a committee appointed to judge a competition [syn: jury]

  3. (law) a group of people summoned for jury service (from whom a jury will be chosen) [syn: venire]

  4. a group of people gathered for a special purpose as to plan or discuss an issue or judge a contest etc

  5. a pad placed under a saddle

  6. (computer science) a small temporary window in a graphical user interface that appears in order to request information from the user; after the information has been provided the user dismisses the box with `okay' or `cancel' [syn: dialog box]

  7. electrical device consisting of an insulated panel containing switches and dials and meters for controlling other electrical devices; "he checked the instrument panel"; "suddenly the board lit up like a Christmas tree" [syn: control panel, instrument panel, control board, board]

  8. [also: panelling, panelled]

panelling

See panel

Wikipedia
Panelling

Panelling (or paneling in the U.S.) is a millwork wall covering constructed from rigid or semi-rigid components. These are traditionally interlocking wood, but could be plastic or other materials.

Panelling was developed in antiquity to make rooms in stone buildings more comfortable. The panels served to insulate the room from the cold stone. In more modern buildings, such panelling is often installed for decorative purposes. Panelling, such as wainscoting and boiserie in particular, may be extremely ornate and is particularly associated with seventeenth and eighteenth century interior design, Victorian architecture in Britain, and its international contemporaries.

Usage examples of "panelling".

I thought the least he could do was crack another bottle of claret, seeing as he was getting eternal life dirt cheap and I was obtaining only half the profit from this bizarre transaction but he was temporarily blind and deaf to the world, barkening only to the invisible angels shouting in his ears, so I rapped loudly with the book upon the table and that brought one of his bullies in, at the double -- out of a door of a secret kind concealed in the panelling.

Temar snatched up a piece of broken panelling from the carriage to protect his head, moving to shield Messire and Camarl with his body.

Next, making for a particular spot on the wall, she selected one of the palmettes in the plaster moulding and pressed it, whereupon a section of the green silken panelling slid aside to reveal a metal safe.

Unperturbed, Planir gestured at a door skilfully concealed in the panelling of the far wall.

There are several sorts, as with Commissaires, ranging from bemedalled Generals to Substitutes thin and pale as stalks of celery, and I got a pretty grand one, judging by some mellow panelling and a fine Empire desk with lots of bronze acanthus leaves for me to trip over.

Every high-ranking office in El Iskandryia seemed kitted out with variations on ersatz European, although Islamicist mosaic did at least replace wood panelling in some.

Wexford said, appreciating the linenfold panelling, the settles and the old mullioned glass in the windows.

Vaguely I was aware of a room with heavy drapes at the windows, a highly polished wooden floor covered in rugs, tapestries and linenfold panelling.

Guy, having finally located the piece of fake linenfold panelling concealing the television, was sitting in front of it with a huge glass of whisky, trying to ignore the drama unfolding beside him.

They used a tower scaffolding to reach the arched matchboard panelling of the roof and the wooden trusses with their metal tie bars.

For a moment or so it meant absolutely nothing to him and then he remembered, it was a number that Tapper Sugg had urged him to call and make an appointment to see some gilt cupids and oak panelling.

During and after the examination all the panelling and insulation was removed, the parts attacked by fungus or decay were also removed, and the woodwork coated with carbolineum or tar.

Warm scintillas of light reflected off tall glasses and cutlery set around the long table, and cedar panelling, studded with silver buttons, on the walls and central square column lent a soft ambience to the proceedings.

On previous expeditions the cabins, provision hold aft, and workrooms forward of the fore-cabin, had been insulated with several thicknesses of wooden panelling.

Redlaw, that of the learned gentleman in the peaked beard, with a ruff round his neck - hangs up, second on the right above the panelling, in what used to be, afore our ten poor gentlemen commuted, our great Dinner Hall.