dashboard

[ dash-bawrd, -bohrd ]

/ ˈdæʃˌbɔrd, -ˌboʊrd /

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noun

(in an automobile or similar vehicle) a panel beneath the front window having various gauges and accessories for the use of the driver; instrument panel.

Computers.

a user interface or web page that gives a current summary, usually in graphic, easy-to-read form, of key information relating to progress and performance, especially of a business or website: Our managers use an interactive dashboard to monitor employee data. The project dashboard shows all tasks assigned to your team. Test scores are posted on the school dashboard.
a web page or portal that provides links to key information and useful tools on a website: You can see financial reports with just one click from the dashboard. Use the dashboard link to add a location to your blog post.

a board or panel at the front of an open carriage or the like to protect the occupants from mud or dirt cast up by the hoofs of the animals drawing the vehicle.

Origin of dashboard

First recorded in 1840–50; dash¹ + board

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Examples from the Web for dashboard

It means pushing every police department to send their cops out with body and dashboard cameras.
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The Ferguson Police do have two dashboard cams, but Chief Tom Jackson says he lacks the $3,000 per camera cost to install them.
If Ferguson P.D. Is Too Broke to Buy Body Cameras, Let’s Do It For Them|Michael Daly|August 18, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The front passenger, 15-year-old Amy Rademaker, was trapped between the seat, the dashboard, and the side door.
The Cops Who Found Out the Truth About GM's Deadly Cars—in 2006|Michael Daly|July 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST
A closer reading of the Sleeprate dashboard found that both it and the PSG detected an elevated heart rate.
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The website Hybridcars.com publishes a monthly dashboard of sales.
Virginia Makes an End Run Around Gas Taxes|Daniel Gross|January 16, 2013|DAILY BEAST
With lightning quickness I reached over the dashboard down to the whiffletrees and unhooked one each of the horses' traces.
Over Prairie Trails|Frederick Philip Grove
Then she bent forward over the dashboard, her eyes fixed eagerly on that distant brown blotch at the eastern ridge-top.
The Plow-Woman|Eleanor Gates
Once on the cement highway, the driver opened his throttle, and Jimmy watched the indicator on the dashboard creep up.
The Flying Reporter|Lewis E. (Lewis Edwin) Theiss
The pilot glances at a little clock that is fixed on his dashboard; then stands up to stretch his limbs.
The Aeroplane|Claude Grahame-White and Harry Harper
A glance at the instruments on the dashboard facing us made it obvious that we were not flying level.
Flying the Atlantic in Sixteen Hours|Arthur Whitten Brown

British Dictionary definitions for dashboard

dashboard

/ (ˈdæʃˌbɔːd) /

noun

Also called (Brit): fascia the instrument panel in a car, boat, or aircraftSometimes shortened to: dash

obsolete a board at the side of a carriage or boat to protect against splashing

commerce a document presenting the most significant information about a subject on a single page

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Word Origin and History for dashboard

dashboard

1846, from dash (v.) + board (n.1); "board in front of a carriage to stop mud from being splashed ("dashed") into the vehicle by the horse's hoofs." Of motor vehicles, from 1904.

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