profile

IPA: prˈoʊfaɪɫ

(countable) The outermost shape, view, or edge of an object.
(countable) The shape, view, or shadow of a person's head from the side; a side view.
(countable) A summary or collection of information, especially about a person
(Internet, countable) A specific page or field in which users can provide various types of personal information in software or Internet systems.
(figurative, uncountable) Reputation, prominence; noticeability.
(uncountable) The amount by which something protrudes.
(archaeology) A smoothed (e.g., troweled or brushed) vertical surface of an excavation showing evidence of at least one feature or diagnostic specimen; the graphic recording of such as by sketching, photographing, etc.
Character; totality of related characteristics; signature; status (especially in scientific, technical, or military uses).
(architecture) A section of any member, made at right angles with its main lines, showing the exact shape of mouldings etc.
(civil engineering) 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.
(military slang) An exemption from certain types of duties due to injury or disability.

(transitive) To create a summary or collection of information about (a person, etc.).
To act based on such a summary, especially one that is a stereotype; to engage in profiling.
(transitive) To draw in profile or outline.
(transitive, engineering) To give a definite form by chiselling, milling, etc.
(computing, transitive) To measure the performance of various parts of (a program) so as to locate bottlenecks.

Examples of "profile" in Sentences

I'll address other matters in private email, assuming your profile is accurate.
Anyone today who fits a certain profile is a target for suspicion and even hatred.
Thanks to this blog and many other activities, my profile is a rising in the world.
Doing a profile is a logical and fair way for people who want to do standards work based on RSS to proceed.
PS that pic on my profile is a 512 lb black bear that I had to get within 12 feet (not yards) to see him on the ground with the hounds.
Here's the first of some important Analytics definitions: a profile is a set of rules that determines what data shows up in your Analytics reports.
Note: Since this label profile was written, Progressive Form has released Form 2.03, whose ten tracks include work by Katsutoshi Yoshihara, Serguei Iwanikov and others.
However, I couldn't help but to notice that after I initiated my "brand" on allvoices, that is what they call a profile who signs up for their "incentives" and "syndication" programs, and whatever new programs they come up with to make up for the absence of the other two's integrity, I focused mostly on the health care debate.