profile
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: archaeology
architecture
civil-engineering
computing
engineering
government
history
human-sciences
mathematics
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
sciences
war
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.
Inflected forms:
form: profiles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: profiles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: profiling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: profiled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: profiled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The outermost shape, view, or edge of an object.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: His fingers traced the profile of the handle.
gloss: The shape, view, or shadow of a person's head from the side; a side view.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: 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.
gloss: A summary or collection of information, especially about a person.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Law enforcement assembled a profile of the suspect.
gloss: A specific page or field in which users can provide various types of personal information in software or Internet systems.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
countable
examples: I just updated my Facebook profile to show I got engaged.
After getting permisssion from my mom, I personal messaged ten different Harveys from her profile who seemed “obviously” Native and lived in Phoenix.
gloss: Reputation, prominence; noticeability.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
uncountable
examples: Acting is, by nature, profession in which one must keep a high profile.
gloss: The amount by which something protrudes.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Choose a handle with a low profile so it does not catch on things.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Character; totality of related characteristics; signature; status (especially in scientific, technical, or military uses).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: What's the thermal profile on that thing?
gloss: A section of any member, made at right angles with its main lines, showing the exact shape of mouldings etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An exemption from certain types of duties due to injury or disability.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
gloss: A user's preferences.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: A roaming profile allows your settings to follow you from one computer to another across a network.
gloss: To create a summary or collection of information about (a person, etc.).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The book The Men with the Pink Triangles, profiling the lives of gay prisoners in the German concentration camp.
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.
gloss: To act based on such a summary, especially one that is a stereotype; to engage in profiling.
pos: verb
gloss: To draw in profile or outline.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To give a definite form by chiselling, milling, etc.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To measure the performance of various parts of (a program) so as to locate bottlenecks.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: […] a complete and intuitive profiler that supports numerous types of profiling modes and profilable applications.
Derived words: 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
side profile
social profile
spoligoprofile
thermoprofile
Voigt profile
profilable
racially-profile
reprofile
unprofiled
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