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Profile vs Intro - What's the difference?

profile | intro |

As verbs the difference between profile and intro

is that profile is while intro is (informal|transitive) to introduce.

As a noun intro is

short form of introduction.

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

    * ----

    intro

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Short form of introduction.
  • (demoscene) A small demo produced to promote one's demogroup or for a competition.
  • * 1999 , "brainpower / digital artists", Win32 demos'' (on newsgroup ''comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos )
  • If the rules specify that the DLLs' size will be added to the 64K limit, there's not a lot of space to code an intro .
  • * 2005 , Tamás Polgár, Freax: the brief history of the demoscene: Volume 1
  • Games, demos, intros . They were the same, this was the scene. The trend was that you cracked and made demos and intros.

    Antonyms

    * outro

    Hyponyms

    * (small audiovisual demo) , cracktro, invitro

    Anagrams

    *

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (informal) To introduce.
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