How to pronounce “profile”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• (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.
• [Verb]
• (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.

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