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# dashboard

«dashboard» in Mova's school dictionary: **the panel at the front of a car, under the windscreen…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a dashboard, dashboards)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A dashboard is the panel at the front of a car, under the windscreen, with the speedometer, dials, lights and controls. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dashboard/#m1)

2) (computing) A dashboard is a screen on a computer or app that shows the most important information at a glance, often with charts and numbers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dashboard/#m2)

3) (history) On an old horse-drawn carriage, a dashboard was a board at the front to stop mud splashing the driver. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dashboard/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life it is the front of the car; children may be told not to put feet on the dashboard. In computing and maths lessons, a dashboard shows data like scores, weather or website visits in graphs. It tells the reader where information is shown. Phrases: «on the dashboard», «a warning light on the dashboard».

### examples

- Mum checked the speed on the dashboard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dashboard/#x1)
- A red light came on on the dashboard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dashboard/#x2)
- Don't put your feet on the dashboard! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dashboard/#x3)
- The satnav is stuck to the dashboard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dashboard/#x4)
- Our class dashboard shows how many books we have read. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dashboard/#x5)
- The weather app has a dashboard with temperature and wind speed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dashboard/#x6)
- The teacher's dashboard shows who has finished the quiz. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dashboard/#x7)

### note

Countable: a dashboard, dashboards. Also called «dash» informally: «on the dash». In the UK people also say «fascia» for the car part. In safety: never sit with feet on the dashboard, because the airbag comes out of it in a crash.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «dashboard» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dashboard/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.