different between runout vs profile

English

Alternative forms

• run-out

Etymology

run +? out.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???na?t/

Noun

runout (plural runouts)

1. Something that has been run out.

2. (cricket) A run out, a running out. The method of getting out in which a batsman, in making a run, has not reached the popping crease when a fielder breaks his wicket with the ball.
3. (skiing) A relatively flat portion at the end of a ski run to slow down, or to connect trails.
4. (skiing) Slowing down at the end of a ski run, skiing on a runout.
5. The end portion of the groove of a phonographic record, after the recorded sound.
6. A supposed auction employing shill bidders in order to convince legitimate buyers to purchase worthless articles.
   • 1953, 10 July, Hansard [2]

     There is a lot of trouble in Petticoat Lane. In fact, the mock auction boys have muscled in to such an extent on the bomb damaged ground that there is a danger that Petticoat Lane may lose its good name by the boys coming in now with the "runouts" to make quick profits and then get out.

7. (mechanical engineering) Deviation of the axis of rotation of a rotating object (especially a milling cutter or workpiece) relative to that object's centerline; the specific amount of deviation.

Anagrams

• outrun

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