Word Meanings - PROFILE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A human head represented sidewise, or in a side view; the side face or half face. A section of any member, made at right angles with its main lines, showing the exact shape of moldings and the like. A drawing exhibiting a vertical section of the

Additional info about word: PROFILE

A human head represented sidewise, or in a side view; the side face or half face. A section of any member, made at right angles with its main lines, showing the exact shape of moldings and the like. 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. Profile paper (Civil Engin.), paper ruled with vertical and horizontal lines forming small oblong rectangles, adapted for drawing profiles. (more info) an outline, shape: cf. F. profil. See File arow, and cf. Purfle, 1. An outline, or contour; as, the profile of an apple.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PROFILE)

• Lineament
• Line
• mark
• feature
• form
• profile

Related words: (words related to PROFILE)

• PROFILE
  A human head represented sidewise, or in a side view; the side face or half face. A section of any member, made at right angles with its main lines, showing the exact shape of moldings and the like. A drawing exhibiting a vertical section of the
• FEATURELESS
  Having no distinct or distinctive features.
• FEATURE
  fashion, make, fr. L. factura a making, formation, fr. facere, 1. The make, form, or outward appearance of a person; the whole turn or style of the body; esp., good appearance. What needeth it his feature to descrive Chaucer. Cheated of feature
• FEATURELY
  Having features; showing marked peculiarities; handsome. Featurely warriors of Christian chivalry. Coleridge.
• LINEAMENT
  One of the outlines, exterior features, or distinctive marks, of a body or figure, particularly of the face; feature; form; mark; - - usually in the plural. "The lineaments of the body." Locke. "Lineaments in the character." Swift. Man he seems
• FEATURED
  1. Shaped; fashioned. How noble, young, how rarely featured! Shak. 2. Having features; formed into features. The well-stained canvas or the featured stone. Young.
• DELINEAMENT
  Delineation; sketch. Dr. H. More.
• DISFEATURE
  To deprive of features; to mar the features of.
• MISFEATURE
  Ill feature. Keats.
• CULTURE FEATURES
  The artificial features of a district as distinguished from the natural.
• DEFEATURED
  Changed in features; deformed. Features when defeatured in the . . . way I have described. De Quincey.
• DEFEATURE
  1. Overthrow; defeat. "Nothing but loss in their defeature." Beau. & Fl. 2. Disfigurement; deformity. "Strange defeatures in my face." Shak.
• UNFEATURED
  Wanting regular features; deformed. "Visage rough, deformed, unfeatured, and a skin of buff." Dryden.
• HARD-FEATURED
  Having coarse, unattractive or stern features. Smollett.