different between profile vs introduce

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

Alternative forms

• interduce (eye dialect)

Etymology

From Old French [Term?], from Latin intr?d?c?, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h?énteros (“inner, what is inside”) and *dewk-.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /??nt???dus/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??nt???dju?s/
• Hyphenation: in?tro?duce

Verb

introduce (third-person singular simple present introduces, present participle introducing, simple past and past participle introduced)

1. (transitive, of people) To cause (someone) to be acquainted (with someone else).

2. (transitive) To make (something or someone) known by formal announcement or recommendation.

3. (transitive) To add (something) to a system, a mixture, or a container.

4. (transitive) To bring (something) into practice.

Conjugation

Synonyms

• (make something or someone known): announce

Translations

Anagrams

• reduction

Interlingua

Verb

introduce

1. present of introducer
2. imperative of introducer

Italian

Verb

introduce

1. third-person singular indicative present of introdurre

Anagrams

• decurtino

Latin

Verb

intr?d?ce

1. second-person singular present active imperative of intr?d?c?

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin introducere.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [in.tro?du.t??e]

Verb

a introduce (third-person singular present introduce, past participle introdus) 3rd conj.

1. (transitive) to insert
2. (transitive) to establish, enact (to appoint or adopt, as officers, laws, regulations, guidelines, etc.)

Conjugation

Spanish

Verb

introduce

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of introducir.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of introducir.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of introducir.