PROFILE

I. noun see: file Date: 1645 a representation of something in outline, an outline seen or represented in sharp relief ; contour , a side or sectional elevation: as, a drawing showing a vertical section of the ground, a vertical section of a soil from the ground surface to the underlying unweathered material, a set of data often in graphic form portraying the significant features of something , a concise biographical sketch, degree or level of public exposure , see: outline II. transitive verb (~d; profiling) Date: 1715 to represent in ~ or by a ~ ; produce (as by drawing, writing, or graphing) a ~ of, to shape the outline of by passing a cutter around, to subject to profiling, ~r noun