profile
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Is profile a Scrabble word?
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What is the meaning of profile?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (countable) The outermost shape, view, or edge of an object.Examples: "His fingers traced the profile of the handle."Synonyms: contourcountable
2. (countable) The shape, view, or shadow of a person's head from the side; a side view.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."countable
3. (countable) A summary or collection of information, especially about a personExamples: "Law enforcement assembled a profile of the suspect."countable
4. (Internet, countable) A specific page or field in which users can provide various types of personal information in software or Internet systems.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."Internetcountable
5. (figurative, uncountable) Reputation, prominence; noticeability.Examples: "Acting is, by nature, profession in which one must keep a high profile."figurativelyuncountable
6. (uncountable) The amount by which something protrudes.Examples: "Choose a handle with a low profile so it does not catch on things."uncountable
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To create a summary or collection of information about (a person, etc.).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."transitive
2. (transitive) To draw in profile or outline.transitive
3. (transitive, engineering) To give a definite form by chiselling, milling, etc.transitive
4. (computing, transitive) To measure the performance of various parts of (a program) so as to locate bottlenecks.Examples: "[…] a complete and intuitive profiler that supports numerous types of profiling modes and profilable applications."transitive
Definition source: Wiktionary