profile
/ˈpɹəʊfaɪl/ · noun
Meaning
- The outermost shape, view, or edge of an object.
- The shape, view, or shadow of a person's head from the side; a side view.
- A summary or collection of information, especially about a person.
- A specific page or field in which users can provide various types of personal information in software or Internet systems.
- Reputation, prominence; noticeability.
- The amount by which something protrudes.
- 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).
- A section of any member, made at right angles with its main lines, showing the exact shape of mouldings etc.
- 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.
- An exemption from certain types of duties due to injury or disability.
- A user's preferences.
- 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.
- To draw in profile or outline.
- To give a definite form by chiselling, milling, etc.
- To measure the performance of various parts of (a program) so as to locate bottlenecks.
Etymology / origin
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.
- pro(Latin)→
- profilo(Italian)→
- profil(French)→
- profile (English)
- Relations: bor, der, der
Related words
Descendant words
- 프로필(Korean) (bor)
- profayl(Tagalog) (bor)
- purofaili(Yoruba) (bor)
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