profile

«profile» in Mova's school dictionary: the side view of a face or head, especially its outline — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a profile, profiles); verb (profile, profiles, profiled, profiling)

meaning for a pupil

1) A profile is the side view of a face or head, especially its outline. tree →

2) A profile is a short description of a person, place or company, telling the main facts about them. tree →

3) On a website, app or game, your profile is the page with your name, picture and information. tree →

4) To profile someone is to write or collect a description of them; in police work it means guessing what kind of person did a crime. tree →

5) «Keep a low profile» means try not to be noticed; a «high profile» means being well known. tree →

sense in the lessons

In art lessons you draw a portrait in profile, from the side. In online safety lessons you learn to keep your profile private, not to share your address or school, and that a profile picture may not show who someone really is. In geography a «profile» can be a cross-section drawing of a river or hill. Phrases: profile picture, in profile, keep a low profile, high-profile, a profile of.

examples

• She drew her friend's face in profile. tree →
• Set your profile to private so strangers cannot see it. tree →
• His profile picture was a cartoon cat. tree →
• The newspaper wrote a profile of the new head teacher. tree →
• The famous footballer is keeping a low profile after the match. tree →
• We drew a profile of the river from its source to the sea. tree →
• It was a high-profile case on the news. tree →
• Never put your home address on your profile. tree →

note

Countable noun: a profile, profiles. Pronounced «PRO-file». As a verb: «The magazine profiled the young inventor.» Online safety: someone's profile can be fake, so a person who says they are ten may not be. «High-profile» before a noun has a hyphen: a high-profile visit.

In the corpora

• A grown-up's or teenager's profile on a streaming app shows films for their age, not yours.
• After an accident, families often set up a kids profile, turn off autoplay and turn on safe search.
• Grown-ups help with tools: kids profiles, autoplay switched off, safe search, PINs and report buttons.
• Scammers find names on public profiles and use AI to make messages convincing.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «profile» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.