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Features vs Profile - What's the difference?

features | profile |

As verbs the difference between features and profile

is that features is (feature) while profile is .

As a noun features

is .

features

English

Verb

(head)
  • (feature)
  • Noun

    (head)

  • feature

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (label) One's structure or make-up; form, shape, bodily proportions.
  • * 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , IV.ii:
  • all the powres of nature, / Which she by art could vse vnto her will, / And to her seruice bind each liuing creature; / Through secret vnderstanding of their feature .
  • An important or main item.
  • (label) A long, prominent, article or item in the media, or the department that creates them; frequently used technically to distinguish content from news.
  • Any of the physical constituents of the face (eyes, nose, etc.).
  • (label) A beneficial capability of a piece of software.
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  • The cast or structure of anything, or of any part of a thing, as of a landscape, a picture, a treaty, or an essay; any marked peculiarity or characteristic; as, one of the features of the landscape.
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  • (label) Something discerned from physical evidence that helps define, identify, characterize, and interpret an archeological site.
  • A feature' of many Central Texas prehistoric archeological sites is a low spreading pile of stones called a rock midden. Other ' features at these sites may include small hearths.
  • (label) Characteristic forms or shapes of a part. For example, a hole, boss, slot, cut, chamfer, or fillet.
  • Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * featural * feature article

    Verb

    (featur)
  • To ascribe the greatest importance to something within a certain context.
  • To star, to contain.
  • to appear; to make an appearance.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2009 , date=November 27 , author= , title=Jimi Hendrix's Voodoo Child has 'best guitar riff' , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Led Zeppelin's Whole Lotta Love, Deep Purple's Smoke On The Water and Layla by Derek and the Dominos also featured in the top five. }}

    profile

    Noun

  • (countable) the outermost shape, view, or edge of an object
  • His fingers traced the profile of the handle.
  • (countable) The shape, view, or shadow of a person's head from the side; a side view.
  • The brooch showed the profile of a Victorian woman.
  • (countable) A summary or collection of information, especially about a person
  • Law enforcement assembled a profile of the suspect.
  • (countable) a specific space or field in which users can provide various types of personal information in software or Internet systems
  • I just updated my Facebook profile to show I got engaged.
  • (uncountable) reputation
  • (uncountable) the amount by which something protrudes
  • Choose a handle with a low profile so it does not catch on things.
  • (uncountable) prominence; noticeability
  • Acting is, by nature, profession in which one must keep a high profile .
  • (archaeology) A smoothed (e.g., troweled or brushed) vertical surface of an excavation showing evidence of at least one feature or diagnostic specimen; the graphic recording of such as by sketching, photographing, etc.
  • Character; totality of related characteristics; signature; status (especially in scientific, technical, or military uses).
  • What's the thermal profile on that thing?
  • (architecture) A section of any member, made at right angles with its main lines, showing the exact shape of mouldings etc.
  • (civil engineering) 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.
  • Antonyms

    * (print mode or selection ) portrait

    Verb

    (profil)
  • to create a summary or collection of information, especially about a person
  • to act based on such a summary; especially, to act on a stereotype. See profiling.
  • Anagrams

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