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 === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈpɹəʊfaɪl/ (General American, Canada) IPA(key): /ˈpɹoʊfaɪl/ (obsolete) IPA(key): /ˈpɹoʊfɪl/, /ˈpɹoʊfiːl/, /pɹoʊˈfiːl/ (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈpɹəʉfɑel/ (New Zealand) IPA(key): [ˈpɹɐu̯.fɑe̯l] (South Asia) IPA(key): /prɵˈfajl/ === Noun === profile (countable and uncountable, plural profiles) (countable) The outermost shape, view, or edge of an object. Synonym: contour (countable) The shape, view, or shadow of a person's head from the side; a side view. (countable) A summary or collection of information, especially about a person. (Internet, countable) A specific page or field in which users can provide various types of personal information in software or Internet systems. (figurative, uncountable) Reputation, prominence; noticeability. (uncountable) The amount by which something protrudes. (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). (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. (computing, countable) A user's preferences. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== 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.). 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. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === References === === Further reading === profile on Wikipedia.Wikipedia “profile”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “profile”, in The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC. === Anagrams === pro-life == French == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /pʁɔ.fil/ === Verb === profile inflection of profiler: first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive second-person singular imperative