Dictionary Entry

profile

Part of Speech: nounPronunciation: /ˈpɹəʊfaɪl/Used In Literature ↓

The outermost shape, view, or edge of an object.

In a Sentence

“His fingers traced the profile of the handle.”

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Common Phrases

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Poetry examples for “profile”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

Fig. 3. Profile of total bacteria and presumptive Vibrios in the nursery tank over a 30-day rearing period of

Thus he rested, far less like a man than
His wheel-barrow in profile was like a pig.
But when I saw it was an old man bent,

Of those two lips, which should be opening soft
In the pure profile; not as when she laughs,
For that spoils all: but rather as if aloft

Of the fellow twain of hands so dear;
And a black-tressed profile, and pale smooth ear;
—Then how shall I bear

There is one in the railway-train whenever I do not want it near,
I see its profile against the pane, saying what I would not hear.