profilingn.

Brit.

/ˈprəʊfʌɪlɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈproʊˌfaɪlɪŋ/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: profile n., -ing suffix¹; profile v., -ing suffix¹.

Etymology: Partly < profile n. + -ing suffix¹, and partly < profile v. + -ing suffix¹.

a. Chiefly Architecture. The giving of a particular outline to a building or other structure; the designing of a profile; the outline so produced.

ΚΠ

1856 D. H. Mahan Treat. Field Fortification 33 Having completed the profiling, the foot of the banquette, and that of the exterior slope, are marked out with the pick.

1888 Cent. Mag. Mar. 706/2 The simple profiling of its lower walls strikes us indeed.

1919 H. L. Warren Found. Classic Archit. v. 256 The final finish, the delicacy of profiling, was reserved for the stucco covering.

1953 Archit. Rev. 114 91 The two outstanding features of the doctrine of Auguste Perret are the insistence on modenature—the profiling and management of projecting features—and the philosophy of the concrete frame.

1996 New Scientist 12 Oct. 47/2 Ultra-efficient ‘hypercars’, which combine light, high-strength materials, low rolling resistance and aerodynamic profiling.

b. Engineering. The shaping of an object, esp. by means of a profile machine, so that it has a desired profile. Frequently attributive.

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1864 Harper's Mag. Mar. 460/2 The little bands which surround the barrel and stock..are subsequently milled on the exterior by a process known as profiling.

1950 C. R. Hine Machine Tools for Engineers ix. 155 (caption) Four-spindle vertical Hydrotel milling machine with automatic 360-deg profiling attachment.

1957 W. H. Armstrong Machine Tools for Metal Cutting vii. 156 The distinguishing feature of a profiler is a profiling unit that is mounted on a spindlehead which may be fed transversely.

1993 Archit. Rev. Jan. 6 (advt.) On-site profiling cuts out the problems of delayed deliveries, shortages, damage in transit, panel handling damage and colour matching of panels.

2. Theatre. Profile board; = profile n. 7(a). Now rare.

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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > theatrical equipment or accessories > [noun] > scenery > pieces of

side shutter1634

drop1781

flat1795

back-scene1818

border1824

profile1824

act drop1829

set piece1859

profiling1861

profile wing1873

backing1889

profile piece1896

revolve1900

construction1924

wood-wing1933

cutout1949

1861 Punch 40 14/1 A land of..scruto-work and profiling, And shivering coryphées.

c1898 W. Gillette Held by Enemy (1925) ii. 39 Note.—This break must be built—not cut out of canvas or profiling.

1985 J. Trapido et al. Internat. Dict. Theatre Lang. 681 Profile board, thin wood..covered with canvas and cut to give it an irregular edge—to simulate rocks, foliage, etc. Also called profiling.

†3. The drawing of profiles. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with metal > [noun] > machining

milling1613

spinning1857

profiling1888

drilling1894

jig-boring1932

spark machining1954

spark erosion1955

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > painting according to subject > [noun] > portrait-painting > specific kind

self-portraiture1830

profiling1888

1888 W. P. P. Longfellow in Scribner's Mag. Apr. 426 One of the secrets of good profiling.

4. Geology and Physical Geography. The measurement or investigation of profiles, esp. of underground features by means of measurements made at points lying along a straight horizontal line.reflection, refraction profiling: see the first element.

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the world > the earth > earth sciences > geology > [noun] > measurement of strata

profiling1929

1929 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining & Metall. Engineers 81 598 Mapping structures..by means of refraction profiling.

1938 B. McCollum in A. E. Dunstan et al. Sci. of Petroleum I. viii. 396/2 In most cases..the profiling of this very shallow boundary cannot be successfully carried out at the present time by reflection.

1968 R. W. Fairbridge Encycl. Geomorphol. 1227/2 Sub-bottom acoustic profiling..has demonstrated many wave-cut terraces partly hidden beneath a thin veneer of late Holocene sediments.

1977 R. J. Rice Fund. Geol. viii. 141 Profiling. A third approach to the analysis of hillslope forms is by measurement of representative profiles.

1992 Public Wks. Jan. 42/2 An open workboard served as a surface platform where hydrographic profiling and a fathometer survey were performed.

5. Originally and chiefly U.S.

a. The recording, itemization, or analysis of a person's known psychological, intellectual, and behavioural characteristics, esp. as documentation used (in schools, businesses, etc.) in the assessment of an individual's capabilities; (also) the compilation of databases which store such information and that can be used to identify any particular subgroup of people. Cf. offender profiling n. at offender n. Compounds.

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1964 U.S. Court of Claims Rep. 157 196 The Medical Profiling officer recommended under date of December 17, 1954, that plaintiff be not assigned duties that require more than ordinary activity.

1988 M. Warnock Common Policy for Education (1989) iii. 73 Profiling is always likely to be seen as of peripheral importance to the academically able, central only to those who have already been deemed unsuitable for further or higher education.

1991 Precision Marketing 16 Sept. 6/5 The summer push will include a direct mail test of 50,000 NDL-profiled names. It is the first time the company has used agency profiling.

2003 Entertainm. Design (Electronic ed.) July There have been numerous studies about the psychological profiling of special warfare personnel.

b. Selection for scrutiny by law enforcement officials, etc., based on superficial characteristics (as ethnic background or race) rather than on evidentiary criteria; esp. = racial profiling n. at racial adj. and n. Compounds.

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1989 in J. P. Collum Without Just Cause (WWOR TV script) Segment 2 (O.E.D. Archive) Profiling is illegal. We as state police officers are not allowed to profile.

1999 N.Y. Times 9 Jan. b6/6 Two New Haven-area lawmakers are writing a bill that would ban police profiling in Connecticut and set up a system to watch for police officers who unfairly stop motorists because of their race or other factors that do not involve breaking the law.

2001 Nation 17 Dec. 5/1 We have succumbed to ethnic profiling. The Justice Department has instructed law enforcement agents across the country to ‘interview’ more than 5,000 immigrants based not on any evidence that they are connected to Al Qaeda or the events of September 11 but solely on their age, gender and country of origin.

6. Computing. The analysis of software by means of a profiler.

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1984 B. W. Kernighan & R. Pike Unix Programming Environment viii. 285 The measurements obtained from profiling are just as subject to chance fluctuations as are those from time, so they should be treated as indicators, not absolute truth.

1993 Dr. Dobb's Jrnl. Jan. 80/1 When studying the output from a profiling tool, it's important to..know the limits of the technique's accuracy, and determine whether it is in fact measuring what you think it is measuring.

2004 ACM Trans. Computer Systems 22 328 Compiler- and linker-based extraction do not have direct access to runtime information, and must rely on off-line profiling.

Compounds

profiling machine n. Engineering = profile machine n. at profile n. Compounds 2.

ΚΠ

1870 Manufacturer & Builder Dec. 376/3 (advt.) Milling, tapping, profiling, cutting, and spindle-grinding machines.

1967 A. Battersby Network Anal. (ed. 2) 377 This measure is likely to utilize the drilling machine inefficiently, because of the odd bits of time spent in waiting for successive small batches from the profiling machine.

1991 Metalworking Production Sept. 96 (advt.) An immediate requirement for an additional engineer to cover our range of..heavy duty lathes, vertical borers and 5-axis high speed milling and profiling machines.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	profiling
释义	profilingn. Brit. /ˈprəʊfʌɪlɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈproʊˌfaɪlɪŋ/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: profile n., -ing suffix¹; profile v., -ing suffix¹. Etymology: Partly < profile n. + -ing suffix¹, and partly < profile v. + -ing suffix¹. 1. a. Chiefly Architecture. The giving of a particular outline to a building or other structure; the designing of a profile; the outline so produced. ΚΠ 1856 D. H. Mahan Treat. Field Fortification 33 Having completed the profiling, the foot of the banquette, and that of the exterior slope, are marked out with the pick. 1888 Cent. Mag. Mar. 706/2 The simple profiling of its lower walls strikes us indeed. 1919 H. L. Warren Found. Classic Archit. v. 256 The final finish, the delicacy of profiling, was reserved for the stucco covering. 1953 Archit. Rev. 114 91 The two outstanding features of the doctrine of Auguste Perret are the insistence on modenature—the profiling and management of projecting features—and the philosophy of the concrete frame. 1996 New Scientist 12 Oct. 47/2 Ultra-efficient ‘hypercars’, which combine light, high-strength materials, low rolling resistance and aerodynamic profiling. b. Engineering. The shaping of an object, esp. by means of a profile machine, so that it has a desired profile. Frequently attributive. ΚΠ 1864 Harper's Mag. Mar. 460/2 The little bands which surround the barrel and stock..are subsequently milled on the exterior by a process known as profiling. 1950 C. R. Hine Machine Tools for Engineers ix. 155 (caption) Four-spindle vertical Hydrotel milling machine with automatic 360-deg profiling attachment. 1957 W. H. Armstrong Machine Tools for Metal Cutting vii. 156 The distinguishing feature of a profiler is a profiling unit that is mounted on a spindlehead which may be fed transversely. 1993 Archit. Rev. Jan. 6 (advt.) On-site profiling cuts out the problems of delayed deliveries, shortages, damage in transit, panel handling damage and colour matching of panels. 2. Theatre. Profile board; = profile n. 7(a). Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > theatrical equipment or accessories > [noun] > scenery > pieces of side shutter1634 drop1781 flat1795 back-scene1818 border1824 profile1824 act drop1829 set piece1859 profiling1861 profile wing1873 backing1889 profile piece1896 revolve1900 construction1924 wood-wing1933 cutout1949 1861 Punch 40 14/1 A land of..scruto-work and profiling, And shivering coryphées. c1898 W. Gillette Held by Enemy (1925) ii. 39 Note.—This break must be built—not cut out of canvas or profiling. 1985 J. Trapido et al. Internat. Dict. Theatre Lang. 681 Profile board, thin wood..covered with canvas and cut to give it an irregular edge—to simulate rocks, foliage, etc. Also called profiling. †3. The drawing of profiles. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with metal > [noun] > machining milling1613 spinning1857 profiling1888 drilling1894 jig-boring1932 spark machining1954 spark erosion1955 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > painting according to subject > [noun] > portrait-painting > specific kind self-portraiture1830 profiling1888 1888 W. P. P. Longfellow in Scribner's Mag. Apr. 426 One of the secrets of good profiling. 4. Geology and Physical Geography. The measurement or investigation of profiles, esp. of underground features by means of measurements made at points lying along a straight horizontal line.reflection, refraction profiling: see the first element. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > earth sciences > geology > [noun] > measurement of strata profiling1929 1929 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining & Metall. Engineers 81 598 Mapping structures..by means of refraction profiling. 1938 B. McCollum in A. E. Dunstan et al. Sci. of Petroleum I. viii. 396/2 In most cases..the profiling of this very shallow boundary cannot be successfully carried out at the present time by reflection. 1968 R. W. Fairbridge Encycl. Geomorphol. 1227/2 Sub-bottom acoustic profiling..has demonstrated many wave-cut terraces partly hidden beneath a thin veneer of late Holocene sediments. 1977 R. J. Rice Fund. Geol. viii. 141 Profiling. A third approach to the analysis of hillslope forms is by measurement of representative profiles. 1992 Public Wks. Jan. 42/2 An open workboard served as a surface platform where hydrographic profiling and a fathometer survey were performed. 5. Originally and chiefly U.S. a. The recording, itemization, or analysis of a person's known psychological, intellectual, and behavioural characteristics, esp. as documentation used (in schools, businesses, etc.) in the assessment of an individual's capabilities; (also) the compilation of databases which store such information and that can be used to identify any particular subgroup of people. Cf. offender profiling n. at offender n. Compounds. ΚΠ 1964 U.S. Court of Claims Rep. 157 196 The Medical Profiling officer recommended under date of December 17, 1954, that plaintiff be not assigned duties that require more than ordinary activity. 1988 M. Warnock Common Policy for Education (1989) iii. 73 Profiling is always likely to be seen as of peripheral importance to the academically able, central only to those who have already been deemed unsuitable for further or higher education. 1991 Precision Marketing 16 Sept. 6/5 The summer push will include a direct mail test of 50,000 NDL-profiled names. It is the first time the company has used agency profiling. 2003 Entertainm. Design (Electronic ed.) July There have been numerous studies about the psychological profiling of special warfare personnel. b. Selection for scrutiny by law enforcement officials, etc., based on superficial characteristics (as ethnic background or race) rather than on evidentiary criteria; esp. = racial profiling n. at racial adj. and n. Compounds. ΚΠ 1989 in J. P. Collum Without Just Cause (WWOR TV script) Segment 2 (O.E.D. Archive) Profiling is illegal. We as state police officers are not allowed to profile. 1999 N.Y. Times 9 Jan. b6/6 Two New Haven-area lawmakers are writing a bill that would ban police profiling in Connecticut and set up a system to watch for police officers who unfairly stop motorists because of their race or other factors that do not involve breaking the law. 2001 Nation 17 Dec. 5/1 We have succumbed to ethnic profiling. The Justice Department has instructed law enforcement agents across the country to ‘interview’ more than 5,000 immigrants based not on any evidence that they are connected to Al Qaeda or the events of September 11 but solely on their age, gender and country of origin. 6. Computing. The analysis of software by means of a profiler. ΚΠ 1984 B. W. Kernighan & R. Pike Unix Programming Environment viii. 285 The measurements obtained from profiling are just as subject to chance fluctuations as are those from time, so they should be treated as indicators, not absolute truth. 1993 Dr. Dobb's Jrnl. Jan. 80/1 When studying the output from a profiling tool, it's important to..know the limits of the technique's accuracy, and determine whether it is in fact measuring what you think it is measuring. 2004 ACM Trans. Computer Systems 22 328 Compiler- and linker-based extraction do not have direct access to runtime information, and must rely on off-line profiling. Compounds profiling machine n. Engineering = profile machine n. at profile n. Compounds 2. ΚΠ 1870 Manufacturer & Builder Dec. 376/3 (advt.) Milling, tapping, profiling, cutting, and spindle-grinding machines. 1967 A. Battersby Network Anal. (ed. 2) 377 This measure is likely to utilize the drilling machine inefficiently, because of the odd bits of time spent in waiting for successive small batches from the profiling machine. 1991 Metalworking Production Sept. 96 (advt.) An immediate requirement for an additional engineer to cover our range of..heavy duty lathes, vertical borers and 5-axis high speed milling and profiling machines. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1856
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