Sanakirja.org

Määritelmät

Substantiivi

1. (countable) The outermost shape, view, or edge of an object.
2. (countable) The shape, view, or shadow of a person's head from the side; a side view.
3. (countable) A summary or collection of information, especially about a person
4. (Internet, countable) A specific page or field in which users can provide various types of personal information in software or Internet systems.
5. (figurative, uncountable) Reputation, prominence; noticeability.
6. (uncountable) The amount by which something protrudes.
7. (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.
8. Character; totality of related characteristics; signature; status (especially in scientific, technical, or military uses).
9. (architecture) A section of any member, made at right angles with its main lines, showing the exact shape of mouldings etc.
10. (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.
11. (military slang) An exemption from certain types of duties due to injury or disability.
12. (computing, countable) A user's preferences.

Verbi

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