different between profile vs solum

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 solum (“base, bottom; soil”). Doublet of soil.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?s??l?m/
• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /?so?l?m/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /?s??l?m/
• (General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /?s??l?m/

Noun

solum (plural solums or sola)

1. Within a soil profile, a set of related soil horizons that share the same cycle of pedogenic processes.
2. The upper layers of a soil profile that are affected by climate.

Anagrams

• Mosul, mulos, omuls

Latin

Etymology 1

From Proto-Italic *solom (“base, sole”), from Proto-Indo-European *solom or *selom (“place, habitation”). Cognate with Lithuanian salà (“island”), Proto-Slavic *selo (“village”) and Proto-Germanic *saliz (“house, dwelling; hall, room”). Related to Latin solea (“sandal, hoof-guard, fettle”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?so.lum/, [?s???????]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?so.lum/, [?s??lum]

Noun

solum n (genitive sol?); second declension

1. bottom, ground, base, foundation, bed
2. floor, pavement
3. ground, earth, land, soil
4. sole (of the foot)
5. (by extension) land, country, region, place

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Synonyms

• (bottom): fundus
• (ground): fundus

Derived terms

• assol?
• solea

Descendants

References

Etymology 2

Adverbial accusative of s?lus (“alone, only”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?so?.lum/, [?s?o??????]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?so.lum/, [?s??lum]

Adverb

s?lum (not comparable)

1. only, just, barely, merely

Derived terms

• s?lummodo

Related terms

Descendants

• Catalan: sol
• Italian: solo
• Spanish: solo

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Adjective

s?lum

1. inflection of s?lus:
   1. neuter nominative/accusative/vocative singular
   2. masculine accusative singular

References

• solum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• solum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• solum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• solum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.