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Brief description of a person, publication, broadcast station, or group in terms of a number of relevant parameters. An editorial profile describes a magazine in terms of it departments, features, and general focus. Advertisers use editorial profiles to evaluate the suitability of a publication for their message. A station profile would describe the programming and music offered by a radio or television station. A market profile describes the prospective buyers or audience for a product or service in terms of the demographic and/or psychographic characteristics of the individuals constituting the market. For example, the market profile for a luxury sedan might be status-conscious, affluent, professional couples aged 35-55, living in single-family homes valued at $500,000 or more, in and around densely populated urban areas. See also customer profile.

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A line marking and shaping the outer form of an object: contour, delineation, outline, silhouette. See edge/center, surface/depth.

1. A control file for a program, esp. a text file automatically read from each user's home directory and intended to be easily modified by the user in order to customize the program's behavior. Used to avoid hardcoded choices (see also dot file, rc file).

2. [techspeak] 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. 3.[techspeak] A subset of a standard used for a particular purpose. This sense confuses hackers who wander into the weird world of ISO standards no end!

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1. A guide used to set out brick work or block work accurately.
2. A soil profile.
3. A vertical section of the surface of the ground, or of underlying strata, or both, along any fixed line. On a highway, the profile is usually taken along the center line.
4. In architectural drawing, the outline of a vertical section.
5. British term for batter board.

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See flight profile.

The orthogonal projection of flight path or a portion on the vertical surface containing the nominal track.

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(in sequence analysis) a scoring table that encodes the residue conservation within an aligned domain, used to provide a diagnostic signature for that domain. Profiles provide differential scores/penalties for matches, deletions, or insertions, and for transitions between these states. They are included as a supplement to the regular expressions in the PROSITE database. Compare hidden Markov model.

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A simple outline, as of the side view of the body or head; by extension, a graph representing quantitatively a set of characteristics determined by tests. In animals the same purpose may be served by photographing it against a grid background. Profiles are used to determine an animal's conformational similarity to a standard set by a breed society and, especially in ruminants, as an aid to the diagnosis of diseases of the abdomen.

• biochemical p. — a panel of tests, usually selected for their ability in the particular species to evaluate the functional capacity of several critical organ systems and general health. The ‘profile’ may literally be the results plotted on individual, parallel numerical scales, producing a pattern similar to a bar graph.
• cost–benefit p. — a written or graphic description of the costs and production returns of an animal enterprise, set out according to a set of standard indices and parameters so that inter-herd comparisons are facilitated. A standard feature in modern animal health and production programs.

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An outline or contour, especially one representing a side view of a human head.

For a list of words related to profile, see:

• Aspects and Components of Appearance - profile: side view of face
• Journalism - profile: in-depth article focusing on one individual
• Tools, Techniques, Principles, and Practitioners - profile: diagram showing results of individual’s psychological testing and evaluation
• Hunting Equipment - profile: decoy depicting bird in profile

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See words rhyming with "profiler."

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - profil, kontur, skabelon
v. tr. - profilere, tegne i omrids

idioms:

• in profile    i profil
• keep a low profile    holde en lav profil

Nederlands (Dutch)
profiel, zijaanzicht, contour, de contouren tekenen van, in grote lijnen schetsen

Français (French)
n. - profil, portrait, (fig) profile, silhouette, (Journ) portrait, profil (graphe)
v. tr. - (Journ) dresser le portrait de (qn)

idioms:

• in profile    de profil
• keep a low profile    (fig) maintenir/adopter un profil bas

Deutsch (German)
n. - Profil, Profilbild, Porträt, Schnitt
v. - im Profil darstellen, porträtieren

idioms:

• in profile    im Profil
• keep a low profile    sich zurückhalten

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - κατατομή, πλάγια όψη (κν. προφίλ), σύντομο βιογραφικό σημείωμα, πορτρέτο, αδρή περιγραφή, σκιαγράφηση
v. - σκιτσάρω προφίλ, διαγράφω

idioms:

• high profile    δημοσιότητα, (καθομ.) προσπάθεια εντυπωσιασμού
• in profile    σε πλάγια όψη, σε προφίλ
• keep a low profile    αποφεύγω την προβολή

Italiano (Italian)
profilare, profilo

idioms:

• in profile    di profilo
• keep a low profile    mantenere un profilo basso

Português (Portuguese)
n. - perfil (m)
v. - traçar o perfil

idioms:

• in profile    de perfil
• keep a low profile    ser discreto

Русский (Russian)
профилировать, обрабатывать по шаблону, профиль, позиция, контур, сечение

idioms:

• in profile    в профиль
• keep a low profile    залечь на дно

Español (Spanish)
n. - perfil, contorno, reseña
v. tr. - perfilar

idioms:

• in profile    de perfil
• keep a low profile    tratar de no llamar la atención

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - profil, översikt, kontur
v. - profilera, teckna ett porträtt av

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
侧面, 侧影, 外观, 轮廓, 外形, 形象, 给...画侧面像, 描出...的轮廓, 给...作剖面图, 写...的传略

idioms:

• in profile    以侧面
• keep a low profile    形象保持低调

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 側面, 側影, 外觀, 輪廓, 外形, 形象
v. tr. - 給...畫側面像, 描出...的輪廓, 給...作剖面圖, 寫...的傳略

idioms:

• in profile    以側面
• keep a low profile    形象保持低調

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 옆 모습, 측면
v. tr. - ~의 윤곽을 그리다

idioms:

• in profile    측면에서 보다
• keep a low profile    ~을 알아 첼 수 있는 행동을 피하다

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 横顔, プロフィール, 側面, 輪郭, 外形, 図表
v. - 輪郭を描く, 人物紹介を書く

idioms:

• in profile    横顔で

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) الجانبيه, الصورة الجانبيه, المظهر ا لجانبي, لمحه عن حياة شخص ما (فعل) يكتب لمحه عن حياة شخص ما‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮צדודית, דיוקן, פרופיל‬
v. tr. - ‮הציג בפרופיל, שרטט דיוקן‬

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