Noun: profile
| Singular | profile |
| Plural | profiles |
Sample Sentences
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His fingers traced the profile of the handle.
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The brooch showed the profile of a Victorian woman.
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Driver's licenses have a photograph of the person on them, which is in full face if the person is above legal drinking age, or in profile if not.
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Law enforcement assembled a profile of the suspect.
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I just updated my Facebook profile to show I got engaged.
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After getting permisssion from my mom, I personal messaged ten different Harveys from her profile who seemed “obviously” Native and lived in Phoenix. [2018, Tommy Orange, “Edwin Black”, in There There, New York, N.Y.: Vintage Books, →ISBN, page 69:]
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Acting is, by nature, profession in which one must keep a high profile.
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Choose a handle with a low profile so it does not catch on things.
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What's the thermal profile on that thing?
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A roaming profile allows your settings to follow you from one computer to another across a network.
Nouns inflected like profile
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From French profil, from Italian profilo (“a border”), later also proffilo (“a side-face, profile”), from Latin pro (“before”) + filo (“a line, stroke, thread”), from filum (“a thread”); see file. Doublet of purfle. See: French Nouns '
profil', Italian Nouns '
profilo'.