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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/profile/#m1)

2) A profile is a short description of a person, place or company, telling the main facts about them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/profile/#m2)

3) On a website, app or game, your profile is the page with your name, picture and information. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/profile/#m3)

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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/profile/#m4)

5) «Keep a low profile» means try not to be noticed; a «high profile» means being well known. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/profile/#m5)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/profile/#x1)
- Set your profile to private so strangers cannot see it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/profile/#x2)
- His profile picture was a cartoon cat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/profile/#x3)
- The newspaper wrote a profile of the new head teacher. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/profile/#x4)
- The famous footballer is keeping a low profile after the match. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/profile/#x5)
- We drew a profile of the river from its source to the sea. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/profile/#x6)
- It was a high-profile case on the news. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/profile/#x7)
- Never put your home address on your profile. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/profile/#x8)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/58-landing-on-an-18-film-by-accident/11/)
- [After an accident, families often set up a kids profile, turn off autoplay and turn on safe search.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/59-the-parents-walk-in-how-good-parents-react/21/)
- [Grown-ups help with tools: kids profiles, autoplay switched off, safe search, PINs and report buttons.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/60-next-time-switch-off-tell-and-parental-controls/9/)
- [Scammers find names on public profiles and use AI to make messages convincing.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/14-stop-think-check-ask/17/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «profile» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/profile/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.