Profileとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈpɹəʊfaɪl/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈpɹoʊfaɪl/
• (Indic) IPA: /prɵˈfajl/

名詞

profile (countable and uncountable, plural profiles)

1. (countable) The outermost shape, view, or edge of an object.

   Synonym: contour

   His fingers traced the profile of the handle.

2. (countable) The shape, view, or shadow of a person's head from the side; a side view.

   The brooch showed the profile of a Victorian woman.

   Driver's licenses have a photograph of the person on them, which is in full face if the person is above legal drinking age, or in profile if not.

3. (countable) A summary or collection of information, especially about a person.

   Law enforcement assembled a profile of the suspect.

4. (Internet, countable) A specific page or field in which users can provide various types of personal information in software or Internet systems.

   I just updated my Facebook profile to show I got engaged.

   • 2018, Tommy Orange, “Edwin Black”, in There There, New York, N.Y.: Vintage Books, →ISBN, page 69:

     After getting permisssion from my mom, I personal messaged ten different Harveys from her profile who seemed “obviously” Native and lived in Phoenix.

5. (figurative, uncountable) Reputation, prominence; noticeability.

   Acting is, by nature, profession in which one must keep a high profile.

6. (uncountable) The amount by which something protrudes.

   Choose a handle with a low profile so it does not catch on things.

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).

   What's the thermal profile on that thing?

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.
12. (computing, countable) A user's preferences.

    A roaming profile allows your settings to follow you from one computer to another across a network.

派生語

動詞

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.).
   • 1984 April 7, Warren Blumenfeld, “Boston's Other Voice”, in Gay Community News, page 11:

     The book The Men with the Pink Triangles, profiling the lives of gay prisoners in the German concentration camp.

   • 2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Advancing disciplinary literacy through English for academic purposes: Discipline-specific wordlists, collocations and word families for eight secondary subjects”, in Journal of English for Academic Purposes, volume 35, →DOI, page 106:

     A resource that profiles the important language of secondary disciplines by adapting the methods of EAP research could therefore be very useful for such pedagogy.

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.

派生語

Further reading

• profile on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “profile”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “profile”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

アナグラム

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