Dictionaries › English

dashboard

Pronunciation: /ˈdæʃˌbɔːd/

The English word “dashboard” has 7 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. An upturned screen of wood or leather placed on the front of a horse-drawn carriage, sleigh or other vehicle that protected the driver from mud, debris, water and snow thrown up by the horse's hooves.
  2. A panel beneath the windshield of a vehicle or aircraft containing indicator gauges, compartments, and sometimes controls and indicator lights.
  3. The float of a paddle wheel.
  4. A graphical user interface for changing settings.
  5. A data visualization that summarizes reports from multiple disparate sources at a glance.
  6. The personalized feed of a user of a website, consisting of recent updates of pages the user has used or followed.

verb

  1. To organize in a dashboard format.

Etymology

From dash (“to sprinkle; to splatter”) + board for meaning 1. Possibly expanded meaning later.

Keep exploring: in the interactive dictionary every word of a definition is a link. Open “dashboard” there

More English words

About this dictionary

The English dictionary on Glottosphere has 650,529 entries with a page. Browse the English dictionary.

Definitions are from Wiktionary, extracted by Kaikki.org, and are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.