Profile
Profile , noun
[Italian profilo, from Latin pro before + filum a thread, an outline, shape: compare French profil. See File arow, and compare Purfle, Purl, a fringe.]
1.
An outline, or contour; as, the profile of an apple.
2.
(Paint & Sculpture) A human head represented sidewise, or in a side view; the side face or half face.
3.
(a) (Architecture) A section of any member, made at right angles with its main lines, showing the exact shape of moldings and the like.
(b)
(Architecture) 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.
Collocations (1)
Profile paper (Civil Engineering) , paper ruled with vertical and horizontal lines forming small oblong rectangles, adapted for drawing profiles.
Profile , transitive verb
[Compare French profiler, Italian profilare. See Profile, n.]
1.
to draw the outline of; to draw in profile, as an architectural member.
2.
(Mechanics) To shape the outline of an object by passing a cutter around it.
Collocations (1)
Profiling machine , a jigging machine.