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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



... looks to the womenfolks," pursued Rufus Carder, feasting his gaze on the girl's profile. "When Juliet set out to get Dick, I warned her, but it wasn't any use. She had to have him, and she knew pretty well how to look out for herself. I guess she never lost anything by ...
— In Apple-Blossom Time - A Fairy-Tale to Date • Clara Louise Burnham
... window brushing his fine bell hat with a white duck's wing. He was a handsome youth; his profile showed clear and fine in the light, between the sharp points of his dicky bound about by his high stock. His cheeks were as red as ...
— Pembroke - A Novel • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
... stretched forward in the act of taking a step. His immense shoulders were turned toward his companion, and in all their magnificent fierceness I saw the outline of his features. His gaze was directed upon the burden his companion was dragging along the floor; but his profile, with the big aquiline nose, high cheek-bone, straight black hair and bold chin, burnt itself in that brief instant into my brain, ...
— The Empty House And Other Ghost Stories • Algernon Blackwood
... to give a sudden leap and then to stop in its beating for a second or two. In one of the passengers, a man who was just passing in front of the tent, she had recognized the form and profile ...
— The Elusive Pimpernel • Baroness Emmuska Orczy
... of few words—impersonal, methodical, serious. He spent many nights there with Evarts, hardly exchanging a phrase with him, and then only on some matter immediately concerned with their work. Evarts could dimly see his long, grave profile bending over his eyepiece, shrouded in the heavy shadows across the table. He felt a great respect, even tenderness, for this taciturn, high-principled, devoted scientist. He had never seen him excited, hardly ever aroused. He was a man of figures, whose only passion seemed ...
— The Man Who Rocked the Earth • Arthur Train


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