profile
verb/ˈprəʊfaɪl/
/ˈprəʊfaɪl/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they profile | /ˈprəʊfaɪl/ /ˈprəʊfaɪl/ |
| he / she / it profiles | /ˈprəʊfaɪlz/ /ˈprəʊfaɪlz/ |
| past simple profiled | /ˈprəʊfaɪld/ /ˈprəʊfaɪld/ |
| past participle profiled | /ˈprəʊfaɪld/ /ˈprəʊfaɪld/ |
| -ing form profiling | /ˈprəʊfaɪlɪŋ/ /ˈprəʊfaɪlɪŋ/ |
- profile somebody/something to give or write a description of somebody/something that gives the most important information
- His career is profiled in this month's journal.
Word Originmid 17th cent.: from obsolete Italian profilo, from the verb profilare, from pro- ‘forth’ + filare ‘to spin’, formerly ‘draw a line’ (from Latin filare, from filum ‘thread’).
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