2. (Paint & Sculp.)
Defn: A human head represented sidewise, or in a side view; the side face or half face.
3. (a) (Arch.) A section of any member, made at right angles with its main lines, showing the exact shape of moldings and the like. (b) (Civil Engin.) 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.
PROFILE
Pro"file, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Profiled; p. pr. & vb. n. Profiling]
Etym: [Cf. F. profiler, It. profilare. See Profile, n.]
1. to draw the outline of; to draw in profile, as an architectural member.
2. (Mech.)
Defn: To shape the outline of an object by passing a cutter around it. Profiling machine, a jigging machine.
PROFILING
Pro"fil*ing, n. (Fort.)
Defn: In the construction of fieldworks, the erection at proper intervals of wooden profiles, to show to the workmen the sectional form of the parapets at those points.
PROFILIST
Pro"fil*ist, n.