dashboard
noun · verb
Simple meaning
Instrument panel on an automobile or airplane containing dials and controls.
Pronunciation
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IPA pronunciation (US)
ˈdæʃbɔɹd
This word is pronounced essentially the same in American and British English, so one transcription covers both.
IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) is a standard way of writing speech sounds.
Definition
Everyday modern meanings first, grouped by part of speech.
noun
Instrument panel on an automobile or airplane containing dials and controls
A panel beneath the windshield of a vehicle or aircraft containing indicator gauges, compartments, and sometimes controls and indicator lights.
graphical user interfacevideo games
A graphical user interface for changing settings.
Internet
The personalized feed of a user of a website, consisting of recent updates of pages the user has used or followed.
verb
To organize in a dashboard format.
Word Aura™
How this word commonly comes across.
Aura for this meaning
This meaning: Instrument panel on an automobile or airplane containing dials and controls
Used this way, dashboard is a reasonably familiar word that usually carries little praise or criticism of its own. It usually sounds natural in a wide range of settings.
- Emotional tone
- Neutral
- Formality
- Neutral
- Intensity
- Not strongly marked
- How common
- Moderately common
- Connotation
- Matter-of-fact
- Usage feel
- Neutral and straightforward
Word Aura describes common impressions, not a measurement. Tone changes with sentence, speaker, relationship and situation.
More ways to use dashboard
- “The car's dashboard lit up with a warning light, so I pulled over.”
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