Meaning of PROFILE
| Pronunciation: | | 'prowfIl
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- [n] biographical sketch
- [n] a graph representing the extent to which something exhibits various characteristics
- [n] a vertical section of the Earth's crust showing the different horizons or layers
- [n] a side view representation of an object (especially a human face)
- [v] represent in profile, by drawing or painting
- [v] write about; "The author of this article profiles a famous painter"
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| | See Also: | | biography, chart, compose, cross section, horizon, indite, interpret, life, life history, life story, pen, population profile, represent, side view, soil horizon, soil profile, write | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Pro"file\, n. [It. profilo, fr. L. pro before + filum a
thread, an outline, shape: cf. F. profil. See {File} arow,
and cf. {Purfle}, {Purl}, a fringe.]
1. An outline, or contour; as, the profile of an apple.
2. (Paint & Sculp.) A human head represented sidewise, or in
a side view; the side face or half face.
3.
(a) (Arch.) A section of any member, made at right angles
with its main lines, showing the exact shape of
moldings and the like.
(b) (Civil Engin.) 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.
{Profile paper} (Civil Engin.), paper ruled with vertical and
horizontal lines forming small oblong rectangles, adapted
for drawing profiles.
\Pro"file\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Profiled}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Profiling}] [Cf. F. profiler, It. profilare. See
{Profile}, n.]
1. to draw the outline of; to draw in profile, as an
architectural member.
2. (Mech.) To shape the outline of an object by passing a
cutter around it.
{Profiling machine}, a jigging machine.
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Simple language for matching and scoring data. "User's Manual for the PROFILE System", Cambridge Computer Assoc (May 1974). [Jargon File] 1. A control file for a program, especially a text file automatically read from each user's home directory and intended to be easily modified by the user in order to customise the program's behaviour. Used to avoid hard-coded choices (see also dot file, rc file). 2. A report on the amounts of time spent in each routine of a program, used to find and tune away the hot spots in it. This sense is often verbed. Some profiling modes report units other than time (such as call counts) and/or report at granularities other than per-routine, but the idea is similar.
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| | Definition: | | Vertical section of the soil through all its horizons and extending into the parent material. |
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| | Definition: | | a section, or exposure of the ground, showing depositional or developmental strata or horizons. |
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