profile
Forms
- Plural
- profiles
- present (v1)
- profile
- past (v2)
- profiled
- past participle (v3)
- profiled
- present participle
- profiling
- 3rd person singular
- profiles
Definitions
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.
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.
2.To act based on such a summary, especially one that is a stereotype; to engage in profiling.
3.To give a definite form by chiselling, milling, etc.
4.To draw in profile or outline.
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #2461
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Related words
Word family
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.