Definition of "profile"

(countable) The outermost shape, view, or edge of an object.  examples

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

(countable) A summary or collection of information, especially about a person  examples

(Internet, countable) A specific page or field in which users can provide various types of personal information in software or Internet systems.  examples

(figurative, uncountable) Reputation, prominence; noticeability.  examples

(uncountable) The amount by which something protrudes.  examples

(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).  examples

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

(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.  examples

(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.).  quotations  examples

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

(transitive) To draw in profile or outline.  examples

(transitive, engineering) To give a definite form by chiselling, milling, etc.  examples

(computing, transitive) To measure the performance of various parts of (a program) so as to locate bottlenecks.  quotations  examples