# profile
## English
### Etymology

From French profil, from Italian profilo (“a border”), later also proffilo (“a side-face, profile”), from Latin pro (“before”) + filo (“a line, stroke, thread”), from filum (“a thread”); see file. Doublet of purfle.

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈpɹəʊfaɪl/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (US) IPA: /ˈpɹoʊfaɪl/
* (Indic) IPA: /pɾoˈfaɪl/
* Rhymes: (UK) -əʊfaɪl

### Noun

profile (countable and uncountable, plural profiles)
* (countable) The outermost shape, view, or edge of an object.
    Synonym: contour
    His fingers traced the profile of the handle.
* (countable) The shape, view, or shadow of a person's head from the side; a side view.
    The brooch showed the profile of a Victorian woman.
    Driver's licenses have a photograph of the person on them, which is in full face if the person is above legal drinking age, or in profile if not.
* (countable) A summary or collection of information, especially about a person
    Law enforcement assembled a profile of the suspect.
* (Internet, countable) A specific page or field in which users can provide various types of personal information in software or Internet systems.
    I just updated my Facebook profile to show I got engaged.
** 2018, Tommy Orange, “Edwin Black”, in There There, New York, N.Y.: Vintage Books, →ISBN, page 69:After getting permisssion from my mom, I personal messaged ten different Harveys from her profile who seemed “obviously” Native and lived in Phoenix.
* (figurative, uncountable) Reputation, prominence; noticeability.
    Acting is, by nature, profession in which one must keep a high profile.
* (uncountable) The amount by which something protrudes.
    Choose a handle with a low profile so it does not catch on things.
* (archaeology) A smoothed (e.g., troweled or brushed) vertical surface of an excavation showing evidence of at least one feature or diagnostic specimen; the graphic recording of such as by sketching, photographing, etc.
* Character; totality of related characteristics; signature; status (especially in scientific, technical, or military uses).
    What's the thermal profile on that thing?
* (architecture) A section of any member, made at right angles with its main lines, showing the exact shape of mouldings etc.
* (civil engineering) A drawing exhibiting a vertical section of the ground along a surveyed line, or graded work, as of a railway, showing elevations, depressions, grades, etc.
* (military slang) An exemption from certain types of duties due to injury or disability.

#### Derived terms

* high-profile
* high profile
* in profile
* keep a low profile
* light profile
* long profile
* low-profile
* low profile
* profile picture
* racial profile
* risk profile
* RNA expression profile
* semi-profile
* social profile

#### Translations
### Verb

profile (third-person singular simple present profiles, present participle profiling, simple past and past participle profiled)
* (transitive) To create a summary or collection of information about (a person, etc.).
** 1984 April 7, Warren Blumenfeld, “Boston's Other Voice”, in Gay Community News, page 11:The book The Men with the Pink Triangles, profiling the lives of gay prisoners in the German concentration camp.
** 2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Advancing disciplinary literacy through English for academic purposes: Discipline-specific wordlists, collocations and word families for eight secondary subjects”, in Journal of English for Academic Purposes, volume 35, →DOI, page 106:A resource that profiles the important language of secondary disciplines by adapting the methods of EAP research could therefore be very useful for such pedagogy.
* To act based on such a summary, especially one that is a stereotype; to engage in profiling.
* (transitive) To draw in profile or outline.
* (transitive, engineering) To give a definite form by chiselling, milling, etc.
* (computing, transitive) To measure the performance of various parts of (a program) so as to locate bottlenecks.
** 2006, Dr. Dobb's Journal:[…] a complete and intuitive profiler that supports numerous types of profiling modes and profilable applications.

#### Derived terms

* racially-profile
* reprofile

#### Translations
### Further reading

* profile on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* “profile”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
* William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “profile”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

### Anagrams

* pro-life

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pʁɔ.fil/
* Audio:(file)

### Verb

profile
* inflection of profiler:
** first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
** second-person singular imperative