different between headshot vs profile

English

Etymology

head +? shot

Pronunciation

Noun

headshot (plural headshots)

1. A portrait for branding and/or social media.
2. A gunshot to the head.
3. A one-page, double-sided resume of an actor, consisting of the actor's photograph (usually of the head and shoulders) on one side and his/her curriculum vitae on the other.

Translations

Anagrams

• hot-heads, hotheads

Polish

Etymology

From English headshot.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?x?t.??t/

Noun

headshot m inan

1. A headshot: a gunshot to the head; used mainly in reference to first-person-shooter video games.
   • 2001 April 9, "Kilian" (username), "i takie tam", in pl.rec.gry.komputerowe, Usenet:

     2. Bronie - jak to jest? Ja wywalam magazynek z M4 w go?cia i nic, a on dwa strza?y z ka?acha (bez headshota) i ja le?? - i to mimo kevlaru i he?mu.

   • 2003 July 13, "PriSM" (username), "zwisy sieci", pl.comp.os.linux.sieci, Usenet:

     Lepsze to ni? jakby Ci mieli zasadzi? headshota z glocka na burst'cie :D

   • 2003 October 19, "Master Chief" (username), "Max Payne 2", in pl.rec.gry.konsole, Usenet:

     Caly czas nie rozumiesz, jesli wezmiemy dwoch najlepszych gaczy w Halo na swiecie -jednego grajacego na myszce, drugiego na padzie i beda mieli zagrac, mecz na MALEJ planszy 1 vs 1 i kazdy z nich bedzie gral na swoich starych warunkach (wspomaganie celowania w wersji xb nie polega na auto aimie tylko na tym ze celownik na twoim przeciwniku porusza sie xx razy wolniej wzgledem twojego sensitive = kazdy headshot na padzie = kazdemu headshotowi na myszce) szanse sa 50%/50% i bedzie liczyc sie TYLKO taktyka i powtarzam Halo to nie Quake rozumiesz ?

Declension

English

Etymology

From French profil, from Italian profilo (“a border”), later also proffilo (“a side-face, profile”), from Latin pro (“before”) + filo (“a line, stroke, thread”), from filum (“a thread”); see file. Doublet of purfle.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?p???fa?l/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?p?o?fa?l/

Noun

profile (countable and uncountable, plural profiles)

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

   Synonym: contour

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. (figuratively, 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.

Derived terms

• high-profile
• low-profile

Translations

Verb

profile (third-person singular simple present profiles, present participle profiling, simple past and past participle profiled)

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.
   • 2006, Dr. Dobb's Journal

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

Derived terms

• reprofile

Translations

Further reading

• profile on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• profile in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• profile in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• pro-life

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??.fil/

Verb

profile

1. first-person singular present indicative of profiler
2. third-person singular present indicative of profiler
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of profiler
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of profiler
5. second-person singular imperative of profiler