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The outermost shape, view, or edge of an object.

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1
The outermost shape, view, or edge of an object.
His fingers traced the profile of the handle.
2
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.
3
A summary or collection of information, especially about a person.
Law enforcement assembled a profile of the suspect.
4
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.
After getting permisssion from my mom, I personal messaged ten different Harveys from her profile who seemed “obviously” Native and lived in Phoenix.
5
figuratoReputation, prominence; noticeability.
Acting is, by nature, profession in which one must keep a high profile.
6
The amount by which something protrudes.
Choose a handle with a low profile so it does not catch on things.
7
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.
8
Character; totality of related characteristics; signature; status (especially in scientific, technical, or military uses).
What's the thermal profile on that thing?
9
A section of any member, made at right angles with its main lines, showing the exact shape of mouldings etc.
10
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.
11
gergoAn exemption from certain types of duties due to injury or disability.
12
A user's preferences.
A roaming profile allows your settings to follow you from one computer to another across a network.

Etimologia

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.

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1
To create a summary or collection of information about (a person, etc.).
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.
Brianna was profiled as a teen with an unstable living situation and a habit of moving between houses.
2
To act based on such a summary, especially one that is a stereotype; to engage in profiling.
3
To draw in profile or outline.
4
To give a definite form by chiselling, milling, etc.
5
To measure the performance of various parts of (a program) so as to locate bottlenecks.
[…] a complete and intuitive profiler that supports numerous types of profiling modes and profilable applications.

Forme

plurale: profiles
passato: profiled
participio passato: profiled
participio presente: profiling
3ª persona singolare: profiles

professionally · As a professional; for one's paid career.professor · The most senior rank for an academic at a university or…Professor · The title for someone who holds the job of professor.

profile · The outermost shape, view, or edge of an object.

profit · Total income or cash flow minus expenditures. The money or…Profit · A surname.profitable · Producing a profit.

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