profile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹəʊfaɪl/
ipa: /ˈpɹoʊfaɪl/
note: Indic
ipa: /prɵˈfajl/
Forms: form: profiles
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.
Senses: examples: text: His fingers traced the profile of the handle.
synonyms: contour
glosses: The outermost shape, view, or edge of an object.
examples: text: The brooch showed the profile of a Victorian woman.
text: 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.
glosses: The shape, view, or shadow of a person's head from the side; a side view.
examples: text: Law enforcement assembled a profile of the suspect.
glosses: A summary or collection of information, especially about a person
examples: text: I just updated my Facebook profile to show I got engaged.
text: After getting permisssion from my mom, I personal messaged ten different Harveys from her profile who seemed “obviously” Native and lived in Phoenix.
ref: 2018, Tommy Orange, “Edwin Black”, in There There, New York, N.Y.: Vintage Books, →ISBN, page 69:
glosses: A specific page or field in which users can provide various types of personal information in software or Internet systems.
examples: text: Acting is, by nature, profession in which one must keep a high profile.
glosses: Reputation, prominence; noticeability.
examples: text: Choose a handle with a low profile so it does not catch on things.
glosses: The amount by which something protrudes.
topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: 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.
examples: text: What's the thermal profile on that thing?
glosses: Character; totality of related characteristics; signature; status (especially in scientific, technical, or military uses).
topics: architecture
glosses: A section of any member, made at right angles with its main lines, showing the exact shape of mouldings etc.
topics: civil-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: 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.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: An exemption from certain types of duties due to injury or disability.
examples: text: A roaming profile allows your settings to follow you from one computer to another across a network.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A user's preferences.
Derived terms: geoprofile
glycoprofile
high-profile
high profile
immunoprofile
in profile
keep a low profile
light profile
long profile
low profile
low-profile
microprofile
profilee
profile picture
profilist
profilograph
profilometer
profilometric
profilometry
racial profile
risk profile
RNA expression profile
semi-profile
seroprofile
social profile
spoligoprofile
thermoprofile