dashboard

See also: Dashboard

English

The dashboard overlaps with the center console.

Carriage dashboard

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdæʃˌbɔː(ɹ)d/

  • Audio (Southern England):

    (file)

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈdæʃˌboəɹd/, /ˈdæʃˌbɔːɹd/

Noun

dashboard (plural dashboards)

1. (historical) 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.
   • 1977, Jim Steinman (lyrics and music), “Paradise by the Dashboard Light”, in Bat Out of Hell, performed by Meat Loaf:

     Though it's cold and lonely in the deep dark night / I can see paradise by the dashboard light

3. (nautical) The float of a paddle wheel.
4. (graphical user interface, video games) A graphical user interface in the form of or resembling a motor car dashboard.

   Log in to the dashboard to change your account settings.

5. (Internet) The personalized feed of a Tumblr user, consisting of recent posts by blogs they follow.
   • 2012, "Grace", quoted in Jennifer Obee, Social Networking: The Ultimate Teen Guide, page 110:

     It's so addictive, I all too often find myself just scrolling down my dashboard on Tumblr, finding things that other people have reblogged that appeal to me, reblogging, then continuing to scroll.

   • 2014, Cat Pausé, “Express Yourself: Fat Activism in the Web 2.0 Age”, in Ragen Chastain, editor, The Politics of Size: Perspectives from the Fat Acceptance Movement‎^[1], page 3:

     I began following other fat-positive Tumblrs, and soon my dashboard was filled with positive representations of fatness: pictures, stories, quotes, and links to articles and blogs.

   • 2022, Barrie Shannon, Sex(uality) Education for Trans and Gender Diverse Youth in Australia‎^[2], page 163:

     Though I rarely use it anymore, absently scrolling through my dashboard acquainted me with many new people from all around the world, and it helped me understand myself in new ways.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:dashboard.
6. (Internet) The personalized feed of a user of a website, consisting of recent updates of pages the user has used or followed.

Hyponyms

• board

Derived terms

• dash
• dashcam

 

Translations

upturned screen of wood

• Arabic: لَوْحَةُ التَّعْلِيمَات f (lawḥatu t-taʕlīmāt)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 擋泥板／挡泥板 (zh) (dǎngníbǎn)

• Danish: forskærm c
• Finnish: roiskelauta
• Irish: pludchlár m
• Italian: paraschizzi m, parafango (it) m, paraspruzzi m
• Russian: брызгови́к (ru) m (bryzgovík), щито́к от гря́зи m (ščitók ot grjázi)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Roman: panel (sh) m

• Spanish: salpicadero (es) m
• Swedish: stänkskärm (sv) c

panel under the windscreen of a motor car or aircraft

• Afrikaans: paneelbord
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: армату́рно табло́ n (armatúrno tabló)
• Catalan: davantal (ca) m
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: palubní deska f
• Danish: instrumentbræt (da) n
• Dutch: dashboard (nl) n, instrumentenpaneel (nl) n
• Esperanto: instrumentpanelo
• Estonian: armatuurlaud
• Finnish: kojelauta (fi)
• French: tableau de bord (fr)
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Armaturenbrett (de) n, Instrumententafel f
• Greek: ταμπλό αυτοκινήτου n (tampló aftokinítou)
• Hebrew: לוח מחוונים
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: műszerfal (hu)
• Icelandic: mælaborð n
• Ido: tablero (io)
• Indonesian: dasbor (id)
• Irish: deais f
• Italian: cruscotto (it) m
• Japanese: ダッシュボード (dasshubōdo), 計器盤 (けいきばん, keikiban)
• Khmer: តាប្លូឡាន (taapluulaan)
• Korean: 계기판(計器板) (gyegipan)
• Latvian: vadības panelis m
• Lithuanian: prietaisų skydelis m
• Macedonian: управувачница f pl (upravuvačnica), контролна табла f (kontrolna tabla)
• Malay: please add this translation if you can
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: dashbord n

  Nynorsk: dashbord n

• Polish: deska rozdzielcza (pl) f
• Portuguese: painel (pt) m, painel de bordo m, painel de instrumentos m, tablier m
• Romanian: tablou de bord (ro) n
• Russian: прибо́рная пане́ль f (pribórnaja panɛ́lʹ), (colloquial) торпе́да (ru) f (torpéda), торпе́до (ru) n (torpédo), прибо́рный щито́к m (pribórnyj ščitók)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: управљачница f, контролна табла

  Roman: upravljačnica f, kontrolna tabla f, kontrolna ploča f, nadzorna ploča f

• Spanish: tablero de instrumentos, salpicadero (es) m
• Swedish: instrumentbräda (sv) c
• Thai: แผงหน้าปัด, แผงควบคุม
• Turkish: kadran (tr), gösterge panosu, gösterge tablosu
• Vietnamese: bảng đồng hồ, bảng điều khiển
• Welsh: panel deialau m

graphical user interface

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 儀表盤／仪表盘 (zh) (yíbiǎopán)

• Finnish: kojelauta (fi)
• French: tableau de bord (fr) m
• German: Dashboard (de) n
• Hungarian: vezérlőpult (hu), kezelőpult, irányítópult
• Icelandic: lesborð n
• Irish: deais f
• Italian: pannello (it) m, pannello di controllo
• Japanese: ダッシュボード (dasshubōdo)
• Korean: 대시보드 (daesibodeu)
• Macedonian: управувачница f (upravuvačnica), контролна табла f pl (kontrolna tabla)
• Russian: пане́ль индика́торов f (panɛ́lʹ indikátorov), дашбо́рд (ru) m (dašbórd), дэшбо́рд m (dɛšbórd)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: управљачница f, контролна табла f

  Roman: upravljačnica f, kontrolna tabla f, kontrolna ploča f, nadzorna ploča f

• Thai: แผงควบคุม
• Ukrainian: пане́ль інструме́нтів f (panélʹ instruméntiv)

See also

• control panel
• gauge
• instrument panel

 

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

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: järjestää kojelaudaksi
• Russian: please add this translation if you can
• Serbo-Croatian: panelirati (sh)

Further reading

• dashboard on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Dutch

Alternative forms

• dashbord (unofficial, rare)

Etymology

Borrowed from English dashboard.

Pronunciation

• (Netherlands) IPA^(key): /ˈdɛʃ.boːrt/, /ˈdɛʃ.bɔrt/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: dash‧board

Noun

dashboard n (plural dashboards, diminutive dashboardje n)

1. dashboard (instrument panel of a motor vehicle or aircraft)