outward appearance vs profile

outward appearance

profile

noun
  • A specific page or field in which users can provide various types of personal information in software or Internet systems. 

  • A summary or collection of information, especially about a person 

  • The amount by which something protrudes. 

  • 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. 

  • An exemption from certain types of duties due to injury or disability. 

  • Reputation, prominence; noticeability. 

  • 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. 

  • The shape, view, or shadow of a person's head from the side; a side view. 

  • Character; totality of related characteristics; signature; status (especially in scientific, technical, or military uses). 

  • The outermost shape, view, or edge of an object. 

  • A section of any member, made at right angles with its main lines, showing the exact shape of mouldings etc. 

verb
  • To measure the performance of various parts of (a program) so as to locate bottlenecks. 

  • To create a summary or collection of information about (a person, etc.). 

  • To give a definite form by chiselling, milling, etc. 

  • To act based on such a summary, especially one that is a stereotype; to engage in profiling. 

  • To draw in profile or outline. 

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