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Instrument panel on an automobile or airplane containing dials and controls
Answer for the clue "Instrument panel on an automobile or airplane containing dials and controls ", 9 letters:
dashboard
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Word definitions for dashboard in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ How about the thunk of a hot lighter snapping up from a car dashboard ? ▪ Jaguar sells its leaping kitty hood ornaments mounted on a block made from the walnut that goes into its dashboards. ▪ Mattie pressed the automatic device ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1846, from dash (v.) + board (n.1); "board in front of a carriage to stop mud from being splashed ("dashed") into the vehicle by the horse's hoofs." Of motor vehicles, from 1904.
Usage examples of dashboard.
She was folded forward over her seat-belt, her head turned toward Andi below dashboard level, phone still clamped to her ear.
Carollo saw spies and counterspies and Communists everywhere, and claimed to have a dashboard bomb detector in his car.
Just as Ranger Denner had said, two thumb-size bullet holes pierced the floorboard near the accelerator, about four inches apart, and blood and tissue splattered the seat, dashboard and floor.
The bell-button grills in the flakey porches look like the dashboards of ancient spaceships.
The heads-up display within his helmet visor copied the info shown on the dashboard multifunction display.
He removed the two rolls of pattern perforated tape from their small metal canisters, carefully plucked off the masking-tape seals and stuck them temporarily to the dashboard.
The carapace of the instrument binnacle, the inclined planes of the dashboard panel, the metal sills of the radio and ashtrays gleamed around me like altarpieces, their geometries reaching towards my body like the stylized embraces of some hyper-cerebral machine.
Pop had sewn me up, my buns were barking, my knee ached from smacking the dashboard during the spinout, and my underwear had been up my crack for a hundred and fifty miles.
He got the little bottle of boron trifluoride out of the dashboard and applied a few drops with an eyedropper to the elastomer line, just forward of the bowline knot that hitched it to an interior stanchion.
So she leaned forward, and shook the buggy whip where it stood in the whipsocket on the dashboard.
The interior became cavelike as she stared uncomprehendingly at the now-blackened windshield, her right shoulder pressed up against the dashboard as the car decelerated.
There was packages everyplace--under the carpet and dashboard, taped in the compartment with the spare tire--real neat and tidy-like.
A G C H A P T E R L I S K A P U L L E D I N T 0 the driveway, barely sparing a glance at the dashboard clock.
The dashboard was filled with every kind of gaudy religious icon imaginable, the centrepiece being a barebreasted madonna with a pale green wobbly head that looked suspiciously as if it might glow in the dark.
She veered in between two high cinderblock walls, hit the brakes and stared at me, jammed under the dashboard.