(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.
(n.) The float of a paddle wheel.
(n.) A screen at the bow af a steam launch to keep off the spray; -- called also sprayboard.
Example Sentences:
(1) Motor vehicle occupants may suffer severe cervical airway injuries as the result of impaction with the steering wheel, dashboard, windshield, backseat, and seat belt.
(2) Dashboard, they add, will allow any volunteer for the first time "to join, connect with and build your neighbourhood team online".
(3) This study assessed the effects of dashboard stickers and signature sheets on safety belt use among occupants of state-owned vehicles in three Florida agencies.
(4) And then we have to know how to look at spreadsheets and dashboards and make some sense of them.
(5) His describes his dream as a Star Trek scenario where a Captain Kirk of global financial systems sat at a dashboard with the ultimate spread of data at their fingertips.
(6) According to a statement, officials have been exploring how to increase the number of African American applicants to the law enforcement academy and raise funds for cameras that would be attached to patrol car dashboards and officers’ vests.
(7) Putting aside why anyone would leave a note visible on their dashboard, the Bank says that the polymer does not melt until the temperature hits 120C, surviving anything a British heatwave can throw at it.
(8) They are keeping specific details about Dashboard heavily under wraps for fear that they might lose the substantial advantage they now enjoy over their rivals in the Romney campaign.
(9) The dashboard for April shows retail sales have dropped , inflation is at its highest for more than three years , wages are falling in real terms and Britain’s trade performance has deteriorated .
(10) Their “dashboard” tabulates progress in 14 different regulatory areas.
(11) Laryngeal ruptures are caused by vertical traction on the larynx and trachea, mainly by pushing the chin upon a dashboard or by so called whiplash trauma.
(12) The Hyundai Sonata recently became the first car to roll off the production line with Android Auto, allowing drivers to connect to their smartphones and pull Google Maps and other Google apps directly on to their dashboards.
(13) On the dashboard were three books: a biography of Martin Luther King, Oscar's Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, and Thomas Hardy's Tales from Longpuddle.
(14) The major cause of frontal sinus fracture today is a traumatic episode of considerable force, most commonly, contact of the head with the dashboard or steering wheel in a motor vehicle accident.
(15) Every hospital and GP surgery will be required to display "clinical dashboards" showing staff how well they are doing on a range of quality indicators.
(16) 'The economy looks set to be slowing again' - experts debate Brexit watch data Read more The dashboard for February shows a worse than expected performance in three of the eight categories.
(17) She was unable to drive at night until she had a light placed under the dashboard of her car so she could see the foot pedals.
(18) Chicago’s corporation counsel, Stephen Patton, said the dashboard-camera footage had prompted the city’s decision to settle.
(19) With a TV on the dashboard, which just seems irresponsible.
(20) The Dashboard project is being led by Michael Slaby, one of Obama's digital gurus , along with Joe Rospars and Teddy Goff and Obama's director of field organizing Jeremy Bird.
Washboard
Definition:
(n.) A fluted, or ribbed, board on which clothes are rubbed in washing them.
(n.) A board running round, and serving as a facing for, the walls of a room, next to the floor; a mopboard.
(n.) A broad, thin plank, fixed along the gunwale of boat to keep the sea from breaking inboard; also, a plank on the sill of a lower deck port, for the same purpose; -- called also wasteboard.
Example Sentences:
(1) His target customer: Abercrombie is only interested in people with washboard stomachs who look like they're about to jump on a surfboard.
(2) Venturing west, you might have stumbled across Lucy's Retired Surfers Bar, where New Orleans's dapper Luke Winslow-King and the washboard-wielding Esther Rose got the crawfish-munching masses jitterbugging to their vintage sweaty Southern stomp.
(3) My first gig in school was a skiffle group – a couple of guitars, washboard, tea-chest bass – but I'd already been doing gigs before that, youth club gigs.