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  1. noun A side view of an object or structure, especially of the human head.
  2. noun A representation of an object or structure seen from the side. See Synonyms at form.
  3. noun An outline of an object. See Synonyms at outline.
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  • ALSO: your profile is a full social profile now, letting you buddy list with friends and more. —  Murmurs.com
  • ALSO: your profile is a full social profile now, letting you buddy list with friends and more. hi all, —  Murmurs.com
  • Or, if you decide to implement my suggestion of hardcoding the set of profiles, that toggle button might just replace the Profile selection altogether (as the profile is anyways selected by the battery state). —  WordPress.com News
  • I really dont care what you feel towards a particular religion (im atheist after all) but i do notice that a large portion of your comments for your profile are against one particular religion. —  Original Signal - Transmitting Digg
 

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  1. Italian profilo, from profilare, to draw in outline : pro-, forward (from Latin prō-; see pro-1) + filare, to draw a line (from Medieval Latin fīlāre, to spin, from Latin fīlum, thread; see gwhī- in Indo-European roots).

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  1. Formerly also profit (= Dutch profit, profiel = G. Swedish Danish profit), from French profil, a profile, from Italian profilo, a border, later also proffilo, a side-face, profile, from pro-, from Latin pro, before, + filo, a line, stroke, thread, from Latin filum, a thread: see file. Cf. purfle, from the same Latin source.
  2. from French profiler, draw in outiine, from profil, an outline: see profile, n.
 

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