Crossword clues for dashboard
dashboard
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dashboard \Dash"board`\ (d[a^]sh"b[=o]rd`), 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.
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(Naut.)
The float of a paddle wheel.
A screen at the bow af a steam launch to keep off the spray; -- called also sprayboard.
an instrument panel beneath the front window of a motor vehicle (such as an automobile or truck), containing indicating gauges and dials, such as the speedometer and fuel gauges, and sometimes certain control knobs or other devices.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 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 (context computing video games English) A graphical user interface in the form of or resembling a motor car dashboard. vb. To organize in a #Noun format.
WordNet
n. protective covering consisting of a panel to protect people from the splashing water or mud etc. [syn: splashboard, splasher]
instrument panel on an automobile or airplane containing dials and controls
Wikipedia
A dashboard (also called dash, instrument panel, or fascia) is a control panel placed in front of the driver of an automobile, housing instrumentation and controls for operation of the vehicle.
Dashboard is an application for Apple Inc.'s Mac OS X operating systems, used as a secondary desktop for hosting mini-applications known as widgets. These are intended to be simple applications that do not take time to launch. Dashboard applications supplied with OS X include a stock ticker, weather report, calculator and notepad; users can create or download their own.
Before OS X 10.7 "Lion", when Dashboard is activated, the user's desktop is dimmed and widgets appear in the foreground. Like application windows, they can be moved around, rearranged, deleted, and recreated (so that more than one of the same Widget is open at the same time, possibly with different settings). New widgets can be opened, via an icon bar on the bottom of the layer, loading a list of available apps similar to the iOS homescreen or the OS X Launchpad. After loading, the widget is ready for use.
Dashboard was first introduced in Tiger. It can be activated as an application, from the Dock, Launchpad or Spotlight. Alternatively, the user can choose to make Dashboard open on moving the cursor into a preassigned hot corner or keyboard shortcut. Starting with OS X 10.7 "Lion", the Dashboard can be configured as a space, accessed by swiping four fingers to the right from the Desktops either side of it. In OS X Yosemite, the Dashboard is disabled by default, as the Notification Center is now the primary method of displaying widgets.
A dashboard, in website administration, is typically the index page of the control panel for a website's content management system. Examples include that distributed with the popular blogging software WordPress, and in the project management website Basecamp.
A dashboard typically indicates items which require urgent actions at the top of the page, moving into less important statistics at the bottom.
Category:Content management systems Category:Website management
In management information systems, a dashboard is "an easy to read, often single page, real-time user interface, showing a graphical presentation of the current status (snapshot) and historical trends of an organization’s or computer appliance's key performance indicators to enable instantaneous and informed decisions to be made at a glance." Dashboards often provide at-a-glance views of KPIs ( key performance indicators) relevant to a particular objective or business process (e.g. sales, marketing, human resources, or production). In real-world terms, "dashboard" is another name for "progress report" or "report."
Often, the "dashboard" is displayed on a web page that is linked to a database which allows the report to be constantly updated. For example, a manufacturing dashboard may show numbers related to productivity such as number of parts manufactured, or number of failed quality inspections per hour. Similarly, a human resources dashboard may show numbers related to staff recruitment, retention and composition, for example number of open positions, or average days or cost per recruitment.
The term dashboard originates from the automobile dashboard where drivers monitor the major functions at a glance via the instrument cluster.
A dashboard is a control panel located in front of the driver of a vehicle.
Dashboard may also refer to:
- Dashboard (business), a web page which collates information about a business
- Dashboard (management information systems), a management tool used to get an overview of enterprise health
- Dashboard (web administration), a tool for administration of websites
- Google Dashboard, a tool to view and manage personal data collected by Google Inc
- Dashboard (Mac OS), an application since Apple Computer's Mac OS X 10.4 operating system for hosting mini-applications known as widgets
- Dashboard of Sustainability, a tool for displaying complex sets of indicators (e.g. MDG indicators) in a user-friendly format
- Xbox Dashboard, the system menu for the Xbox and Xbox 360 game consoles
- "Dashboard" (song), a single from the Modest Mouse album We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
"Dashboard" is a song by American indie rock band Modest Mouse and is the second track on their 2007 album We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank. The song was released as the first single from that album and peaked at #5 on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks chart. It debuted and peaked at #61 in the Billboard Hot 100 in early February 2007. In late May 2007, the song was released as a single in the United Kingdom with " King Rat" as the B-side. This single coincided with the band's UK tour. This song was #87 on Rolling Stones list of the 100 Best Songs of 2007.
Members of Modest Mouse's e-mail list were sent a link of the finished track on January 3, 2007 and the song was released to American radio stations on January 16.
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.