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Profile vs Fingerprint - What's the difference?

profile | fingerprint |

As verbs the difference between profile and fingerprint

is that profile is while fingerprint is to take somebody's fingerprints.

As a noun fingerprint is

the unique natural pattern of ridges on the tips of the fingers.

profile

English

(wikipedia 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.

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    fingerprint

    English

    (wikipedia fingerprint)

    Alternative forms

    * finger-print

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The unique natural pattern of ridges on the tips of the fingers.
  • The patterns left on surfaces where uncovered fingertips have touched.
  • (computing) Unique identification for public key in asymmetric cryptosystem.

    • Hyponyms

    * thumbprint

    Derived terms

    * fingerprint analysis * fingerprint recognition

    See also

    * (computing) hash

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To take somebody's fingerprints.
    • ''The jail staff fingerprints its 'guests' routinely

    See also

    * dactylography * biometrics