Direct Cross-Language Association: “Profile” in German
This word also exists in German! Meaning: “nominative/accusative/genitive plural of Profil”
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Direct German Translations & Equivalents:
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Verb Conjugation Tables & Inflections
Definitions & Usage
(countable) The outermost shape, view, or edge of an object.
(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.
(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.
Notable Literary & Historical Quotes
“After getting permisssion from my mom, I personal messaged ten different Harveys from her profile who seemed “obviously” Native and lived in Phoenix.”
— 2018, Tommy Orange, “Edwin Black”, in There There, New York, N.Y.: Vintage Books, →ISBN, page 69:
“The book The Men with the Pink Triangles, profiling the lives of gay prisoners in the German concentration camp.”
— 1984 April 7, Warren Blumenfeld, “Boston's Other Voice”, in Gay Community News, page 11:
“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.”
— 2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Advancing disciplinary literacy through English for academic purposes: Discipline-specific wordlists, collocations and word families for eight secondary subjects”, in Journal of English for Academic Purposes, volume 35, →DOI, page 106: