Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A section of panels or paneled wall.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The making of panels, as in a door.
  • noun Panels collectively: as, the paneling of a ceiling.
  • noun The diversifying of a surface by means of panels.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The act or process of forming in panels or decorating with panels.
  • noun The panels which decorate the walls of a room.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb Alternative spelling of panelling.
  • noun Alternative spelling of panelling.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a panel or section of panels in a wall or door

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Examples

  • You have a great room – the paneling is nice actually.

    Promised Pictures « Tales from the Reading Room 2009

  • And thank you, I think the paneling is quite nice, too.

    Promised Pictures « Tales from the Reading Room 2009

  • He was impressed with the long leather seats, the wood grain paneling, the shiny gadgets.

    Talking Heads « A Fly in Amber 2010

  • As part of her innate loyalty-building strategy, Galvan taped up the business cards of seemingly everyone who ever came in, and glossies of every local figure and demi-celebrity she could talk into giving her one: today the 1970s walnut-look paneling is (mercifully) almost completely covered with them.

    Cooking for a Sunday Day 2008

  • As part of her innate loyalty-building strategy, Galvan taped up the business cards of seemingly everyone who ever came in, and glossies of every local figure and demi-celebrity she could talk into giving her one: today the 1970s walnut-look paneling is (mercifully) almost completely covered with them.

    Cooking for a Sunday Day 2008

  • It was navy blue with fake wood grain paneling and all the options: power windows, power seats, a cassette player, and a 2.8 liter EFI V-6 with overdrive.

    January 2005 2005

  • (Who would expect to see simulated wood-grain paneling plastered on the side of a preproduction BMW X5?)

    Boing Boing: March 30, 2003 - April 5, 2003 Archives 2003

  • There behind the paneling was a shallow closet which ran the full length of the five panels.

    Ralestone Luck Andre Norton 1958

  • There behind the paneling was a shallow closet which ran the full length of the five panels, it was filled with a collection of bags and small chests, a collection which

    Ralestone Luck Norton, Andre 1938

  • The breakthrough occurred when we realized that an image of the paneling could be a kind of screen-saver.

    Slate Magazine Witold Rybczynski 2010

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