See Also: low profile(dictionary)
profile(2)(dictionary)
NPV profile(money)
profile(1)(dictionary)
NPV profile(finance)
low-profile(dictionary)
profile(medicine)
test profile(medicine)
high-profile(dictionary)
Consumer Profile(money)

profile(2) (iou)



profile verb. E18.
[Italian profilare draw in outline, formed as PRO-1 + filare spin, (formerly) draw a line from Latin, from filum thread. Cf. PURFLE verb.]
verb trans.
a. Represent in profile; draw in cross-section; outline. E18.
b. Compose or present a biographical profile of (a person); present a summary of information about. M20.
Listener H. O. Nazareth profiles the work of Farrukh Dhondy.
verb trans. Provide (an object) with a profile of a specified nature; Engineering shape, esp. by means of a tool guided by a template. E19.
Dylan Thomas Fasten your affections on some immaculately profiled young man. Practical Woodworking The same cutter is used to profile an ovolo mould.
verb trans. Chiefly Geology. Measure or investigate the profile of, esp. by means of measurements made at collinear points. E20.
verb intrans. Present one's profile to view; Bullfighting stand in profile in preparation for a charge. M20.
profiler noun (a) Engineering a profile machine; (b) an instrument for measuring profiles, esp. of strata of rock or the seabed: E20.
profiling noun the action of the verb; spec. the recording and analysis of a person's psychological and behavioural characteristics, so as to assess or predict their capabilities in a certain sphere or to assist in identifying a particular subgroup of people: L19.