DASHBOARD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dashboard mean? 

• DASHBOARD (noun)
  The noun DASHBOARD has 2 senses:

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

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

  Familiarity information: DASHBOARD used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DASHBOARD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

dashboard; splashboard; splasher

Hypernyms ("dashboard" is a kind of...):

protection; protective cover; protective covering (a covering that is intend to protect from damage or injury)

Holonyms ("dashboard" is a part of...):

vehicle (a conveyance that transports people or objects)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Instrument panel on an automobile or airplane containing dials and controls

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

dashboard; fascia

Hypernyms ("dashboard" is a kind of...):

board; control board; control panel; instrument panel; panel (electrical device consisting of a flat insulated surface that contains switches and dials and meters for controlling other electrical devices)

 Context examples 

He was balancing himself on the dashboard of his car with that resourcefulness of movement that is so peculiarly American—that comes, I suppose, with the absence of lifting work or rigid sitting in youth and, even more, with the formless grace of our nervous, sporadic games.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)