Lexic.us

Definition of Dashboard

1. Noun. Protective covering consisting of a panel to protect people from the splashing water or mud etc..

2. Noun. Instrument panel on an automobile or airplane containing dials and controls.

Definition of Dashboard

1. n. A board placed on the fore part of a carriage, sleigh, or other vehicle, to intercept water, mud, or snow, thrown up by the heels of the horses; -- in England commonly called splashboard.

Definition of Dashboard

1. Noun. 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. ¹

2. Noun. A panel under the windscreen of a motor car or aircraft, containing indicator dials, compartments, and sometimes controls. ¹

3. Noun. (computing video games) A graphical user interface in the form of or resembling a motor car dashboard. ¹

4. Verb. To organize in a dashboard format. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Dashboard

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dashboard

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dash dash-pot dash cherry dash down dash off dashboard (current term) dashboarded dashboarding dashboards dashed

dasheen dasheens dasheki dashekis dasher dashers dashes dashi dashier dashiest

Literary usage of Dashboard

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. American Negligence Reports, Current Series Cited Am. Neg. Rep.: All the by United States (1901)
"She said: "I can't describe more particularly where he struck her and where she was struck, but I saw her knocked against the dashboard. ..."

2. Ignition, Timing and Valve Setting: A Comprehensive Illustrated Manual of by Thomas Herbert Russell (1909)
"dashboard. Fl, Mark on flywheel, which should be exactly under index, ... 1 cylinder counted from dashboard. This, in the case of coil and battery system, ..."

3. The American Cyclopedia of the Automobile: Or, Motor Cars and Motoring Self edited by Thomas Herbert Russell, Charles P. Root (1909)
"C, Index pointer fixed to dashboard. Dl, Mark on flywheel which, ... 1 cylinder counted from dashboard. This, in the case of coil and battery system, ..."

4. The Horseless Age (1909)
"Such a switch is connected in parallel with the dashboard switching ... It is easy to see why this function has hitherto been relegated to the dashboard. ..."

5. A Manual of Petrol Motors and Motor Cars: Comprising the Designing by F. Strickland (1907)
"For driving about in England in all sorts of weathers, it is a very great advantage to have a dashboard high enough to be a shelter from the wind. ..."

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