profiling

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English

Definitions

verb

To create a summary or collection of information about (a person, etc.).
To act based on such a summary, especially one that is a stereotype; to engage in profiling.
To draw in profile or outline.
To give a definite form by chiselling, milling, etc.

noun

The forensic science of constructing an outline of a person's individual characteristics.
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.

Related words

Synonyms

portrait contour pattern categorization classification characterisation streamlining categorisation characterization identification footprint forecast characterising characterizing describing outlining

Associated

profiler offender grape sequencing brutality forensic investigative dna policing targeting profile behavioral

Rhymes

beguiling smiling stockpiling tiling piling compiling reconciling unsmiling riling wiling

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