profile

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

His fingers traced the profile of the handle.

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

The brooch showed the profile of a Victorian woman.

Driver's licenses have a photograph of the person on them, which is in full face if the person is above legal drinking age, or in profile if not.

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

Law enforcement assembled a profile of the suspect.

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

I just updated my Facebook profile to show I got engaged.

After getting permisssion from my mom, I personal messaged ten different Harveys from her profile who seemed “obviously” Native and lived in Phoenix.

Reputation, prominence; noticeability.

Acting is, by nature, profession in which one must keep a high profile.

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

The book The Men with the Pink Triangles, profiling the lives of gay prisoners in the German concentration camp.

A resource that profiles the important language of secondary disciplines by adapting the methods of EAP research could therefore be very useful for such pedagogy.

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

To draw in profile or outline.

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

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

[…] a complete and intuitive profiler that supports numerous types of profiling modes and profilable applications.