dashboard

[ dash-bawrd, -bohrd ]

noun

1. (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.
2. Digital Technology.
   1. 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.

   2. 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.

3. 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.

dashboard

/ ˈdæʃˌbɔːd /

noun

1. Also called (Brit)fascia the instrument panel in a car, boat, or aircraft Sometimes shortened todash
2. obsolete.
   a board at the side of a carriage or boat to protect against splashing
3. commerce a document presenting the most significant information about a subject on a single page

Word History and Origins

Origin of dashboard¹

First recorded in 1840–50; dash ¹ + board

Example Sentences

Perhaps this will come in the form of better forecasting methods or simple dashboards, he adds.

From MIT Technology Review

This Search Console Insights dashboard gives you more views of your content performance since it now blends both Google Analytics and Google Search Console data into one.

From Search Engine Land

You can set up your own customized dashboard to track the things you want to follow including independent expenditures and ballot measures.

From Voice of San Diego

To build this dashboard, you will need to download your server log files along with the ElasticSearch tools.

From Search Engine Land

The first thing to do every time you go to your online reputation management tool is to look at the dashboard.

From Search Engine Watch

It means pushing every police department to send their cops out with body and dashboard cameras.

From The Daily Beast

Aside from oil, Russia has two great exports: brilliant, heady novelists and captivating dashboard camera videos.

From The Daily Beast

The Ferguson Police do have two dashboard cams, but Chief Tom Jackson says he lacks the $3,000 per camera cost to install them.

From The Daily Beast

The front passenger, 15-year-old Amy Rademaker, was trapped between the seat, the dashboard, and the side door.

From The Daily Beast

A closer reading of the Sleeprate dashboard found that both it and the PSG detected an elevated heart rate.

From The Daily Beast

"Glad to know you, Burke," I said, coming out from underneath the dashboard of the cruiser.

From Project Gutenberg

"And think of me," said the Owl, perching upon the dashboard of the Red Wagon with much noisy clattering of his tin feathers.

From Project Gutenberg

Johnnie Green kept a long one in the socket beside the dashboard of his little red-wheeled buggy.

From Project Gutenberg

Once on the cement highway, the driver opened his throttle, and Jimmy watched the indicator on the dashboard creep up.

From Project Gutenberg

He braced his club foot against the iron bar of the dashboard and gripped the sides of the buggy to steady his feeble body.

From Project Gutenberg