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Profile   /prˈoʊfˌaɪl/   Listen
noun
Profile  n.  
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.


verb
Profile  v. t.  (past & past part. profiled; pres. part. profiling)  
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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"Profile" Quotes from Famous Books



... massive candelabra on the table attracted her, so she turned her attention to that, fixing one of its candles as she neared it. Finally, a small water color of her father, which hung on the wall a little to one side, appealed to her as needing adjustment. She paused to regard the profile as she ...
— The Loyalist - A Story of the American Revolution • James Francis Barrett
... Then Miss Schley went on murmuring words into Leo's ear and Leo began to shake with silent laughter. Lord Holme clenched his hands at his sides. The French actor, still watching him closely, put up a fat forefinger and meditatively traced the outline of his own profile, pushing out his large flexible lips when the finger was drawing near to them. The whole room was full of the tickling noise ...
— The Woman With The Fan • Robert Hichens
... requiring caution prevail, such as a dangerous turn on a hill or a sharp descent into a village street. Then there is a set of books, four in number, published by an Edinburgh house and illustrated by profile plans, covering about thirty thousand miles of road in England and Scotland. These show the exact gradients and supply information in regard to the surface of the roads and their general characteristics. Besides this, the "objects of interest" ...
— British Highways And Byways From A Motor Car - Being A Record Of A Five Thousand Mile Tour In England, - Wales And Scotland • Thomas D. Murphy
... utterance amazed Serviss, and he studied her profile in silence before he answered. "I think I know what you mean, and I sympathize with you. You're too young to be troubled by the doubts and dismays of men like Clarke. He is preposterous in the face of ...
— The Tyranny of the Dark • Hamlin Garland
... and as a Black Brunswicker, which was better, and as an Arab sheik. Also she had tried him as a dragoman and as a gendarme, which seemed the most suitable of all to his severely handsome, immobile profile. She felt he would tell people the way, control traffic, and refuse admission to public buildings with invincible correctness and the very finest explicit feelings possible. For each costume she had devised a suitable form of matrimonial refusal. "Oh, Lord!" she said, ...
— Ann Veronica • H. G. Wells


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