dashboard

Wikipedia

The dashboard of a modern car.

Sleigh dashboard

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈdæʃˌbɔː(ɹ)d/, X-SAMPA: /"d{S%bO:(r\)d/

Noun

dashboard (plural dashboards)

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 under the windscreen of a motor car or aircraft, containing indicator dials, compartments, and sometimes controls.
3. (computing, video games) A graphical user interface in the form of or resembling a motor car dashboard.

Derived terms

• dash

Translations

upturned screen of wood

• Swedish: stänkskärm (sv) c

panel under the windscreen of a motor car or aircraft

• Bulgarian: арматурно табло (bg) (armatúrno tabló) n
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 汽車儀表 (cmn), 汽车仪表 (cmn) (qìchē yíbiǎo), 儀表盤 (cmn), 仪表盘 (cmn) (yíbiǎopán)

• Czech: palubní deska (cs) f
• Dutch: dashboard (nl), instrumentenpaneel (nl)
• Finnish: kojelauta (fi)
• French: tableau de bord (fr)
• German: Armaturenbrett (de) n
• Hungarian: műszerfal (hu)

• Italian: cruscotto (it) m
• Japanese: ダッシュボード (ja) (dasshubōdo), 計器盤 (ja) (けいきばん, keikiban)
• Polish: deska rozdzielcza (pl) f
• Portuguese: painel (pt) m, painel de bordo (pt) m
• Russian: приборная панель (ru) (pribórnaja panɛ́lʹ) f, (colloquial) торпеда (ru) (torpéda) f, торпедо (ru) (torpédo) n (indeclinable)
• Spanish: tablero de instrumentos (es), salpicadero (es) m
• Swedish: instrumentbräda (sv) c
• Turkish: gösterge panosu (tr), gösterge tablosu (tr)

graphical user interface

• Japanese: ダッシュボード (ja) (dasshubōdo)

• Russian: панель индикаторов (ru) (panɛ́lʹ indikátorov) f

Verb

dashboard (third-person singular simple present dashboards, present participle dashboarding, simple past and past participle dashboarded)

1. To organize in a dashboard format.

   Dashboarding your work can enhance productivity.

Translations

to organize in a dashboard format

• Serbo-Croatian: panelirati (sh)