# dashboard

Pronunciation: US say "DASH-bord" /ˈdæʃˌboəɹd/; UK say "DASH-bawd" /ˈdæʃˌbɔː(ɹ)d/

## Noun

1. A panel below a vehicle's or aircraft's windshield that houses gauges and compartments and may also have controls and indicator lights.
   - Simple: The flat panel under a car's front window, with dials and controls the driver uses.
   - _The pilot scanned the dashboard for the altimeter reading before takeoff._
   - _A cracked dashboard can be surprisingly expensive to replace in older cars._
2. A graphical user interface through which a user changes an application's settings.
   - Simple: A screen on a computer or app where you can change settings in one place.
   - _The administrator configured user permissions from the dashboard._
   - _Each dashboard exposes only the settings relevant to that team._
3. A website user's personalized feed showing recent updates from the pages they have used or followed.
   - Simple: A web page that shows you the newest updates from pages you follow or have used.
   - _New comments on her projects appeared at the top of the dashboard._
   - _The dashboard collects every update from the blogs he subscribes to._
5. An upturned screen of wood or leather mounted at the front of a horse-drawn carriage or sleigh, protecting the driver from mud, water, and snow thrown up by the horse's hooves.
   - Simple: An upright screen of wood or leather at the front of a carriage that kept mud and water off the driver.
   - _The coachman crouched behind the dashboard to escape the spray from the muddy road._
   - _A leather dashboard kept the worst of the splatter off her traveling coat._
6. One of the boards mounted around a paddle wheel that push against the water to propel the vessel.
   - Simple: One of the flat boards on a paddle wheel that pushes against the water to move the boat.
   - _The engineer replaced a cracked dashboard on the steamer's paddle wheel._
   - _As the wheel turned, every dashboard bit into the water and drove the boat upstream._

## Verb

4. To organize information into a dashboard format that presents it together in one place.
   - Simple: To arrange information into a single panel that shows it all at a glance.
   - _Analysts dashboard the quarterly metrics to spot trends quickly._
   - _They wanted to dashboard every key indicator on a single screen._

## Origin

The word combines "dash" (to sprinkle or splatter) with "board," giving the original sense, and its meaning was possibly expanded later.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/dashboard (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).