different between profile vs candidate

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

English

Etymology

From Latin candid?tus (“a person who is standing for public office”), from candidus (“dazzling white, shining, clear”) + -?tus (an adjectival suffix), in reference to Roman candidates wearing bleached white togas as a symbol of purity at a public forum.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?kæn.d?d?t/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?kæn.d?.de?t/, /?kæn.d?.d?t/
• (US, colloquially) IPA^(key): /?kæn.?.d?t/, /?kæn.?.de?t/

Noun

candidate (plural candidates)

1. A person who is running in an election.

2. A person who is applying for a job.

3. A participant in an examination.

4. Something or somebody that may be suitable.
5. (genetics) A gene which may play a role in a given disease.

Derived terms

• candidacy
• Manchurian candidate
• release candidate

Related terms

Translations

Verb

candidate (third-person singular simple present candidates, present participle candidating, simple past and past participle candidated)

1. (uncommon) To stand as a candidate for an office, especially a religious one.
   • 1906, Year Book of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, page 196:

     The matter of candidating for a pulpit is not a matter of difference between congregations and Rabbis, but between Rabbis themselves.

   • 2014, Susan H. Jones, Listening for God's Call, SCM Press (?ISBN), page 74:

     The report Shaping the Future also gives a set of learning outcomes for those people candidating for ordained ministry. These were also agreed by the Methodist Conference.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:candidated.
2. (nonstandard, chiefly in jargon and non-native speakers' English) To make or name (something) a candidate (for use, for study as a next project, for investigation as a possible cause of something, etc).
   • 1982, Brian O'Leary, Space industrialization, CRC:

     Performance comparison of solar energy conversion candidated for SPS. (From NASA, Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Houston 1977.)

   • 1989, Institution of Electrical Engineers. Electronics Division, European Conference on Circuit Theory and Design, 5-8 September 1989, Peter Peregrinus Limited (?ISBN):

     In this program if a processor becomes idle, then all feasible activities requiring that kind of processor will be candidated for scheduling. If the number of candidates is more than the number of available processors, activities with higher priority ...

   • 2005, Khaled M. Khan, Yan Zhang, Managing Corporate Information Systems Evolution and Maintenance, IGI Global (?ISBN), page 308:

     Evaluate the maintenance costs of the software system in order to candidate it for evolution AA14. Evaluate the hardware platform used and the possibility of migrating the software system toward more economical platforms ...

References

French

Noun

candidate f (plural candidates)

1. female equivalent of candidat

Further reading

• “candidate” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Noun

candidate f

1. plural of candidata

Verb

candidate

1. second-person plural present indicative of candidare
2. second-person plural imperative of candidare
3. feminine plural of candidato

Latin

Noun

candid?te

1. vocative singular of candid?tus

Norman

Noun

candidate f (plural candidates)

1. female equivalent of candidat

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kandi?date/, [kãn?.d?i?ð?a.t?e]

Verb

candidate

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of candidatar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of candidatar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of candidatar.
4. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of candidatar.