profiler

English

Etymology

profile +‎ -er

Noun

profiler (plural profilers)

1. A mechanical device that cuts complex, irregular shapes by tracing a pattern.
2. A person who creates a profile for something or someone, especially a psychological profile for an unknown criminal.
3. (computing) A software program that measures the performance of different portions of another program in order to locate bottlenecks.
   • 2006, Dr. Dobb's Journal:

     […] a complete and intuitive profiler that supports numerous types of profiling modes and profilable applications.

Translations

mechanical device

• Spanish: generador de perfiles m

person who creates a profile for something or some

• German: Profiler (de) m, Profilerin (de) f, Profilersteller m, Profilerstellerin f, Fallanalytiker m, Fallanalytikerin f
• Spanish: perfilador (es) m

software program

See also

• profilist

Anagrams

• pro-lifer, prolifer

French

Etymology

From profil +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

Verb

profiler

1. to profile

Conjugation

Conjugation of profiler (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	profiler
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	profilant /pʁɔ.fi.lɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		profilé /pʁɔ.fi.le/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	profile /pʁɔ.fil/	profiles /pʁɔ.fil/	profile /pʁɔ.fil/	profilons /pʁɔ.fi.lɔ̃/	profilez /pʁɔ.fi.le/	profilent /pʁɔ.fil/
	imperfect	profilais /pʁɔ.fi.lɛ/	profilais /pʁɔ.fi.lɛ/	profilait /pʁɔ.fi.lɛ/	profilions /pʁɔ.fi.ljɔ̃/	profiliez /pʁɔ.fi.lje/	profilaient /pʁɔ.fi.lɛ/
	past historic2	profilai /pʁɔ.fi.le/	profilas /pʁɔ.fi.la/	profila /pʁɔ.fi.la/	profilâmes /pʁɔ.fi.lam/	profilâtes /pʁɔ.fi.lat/	profilèrent /pʁɔ.fi.lɛʁ/
	future	profilerai /pʁɔ.fil.ʁe/	profileras /pʁɔ.fil.ʁa/	profilera /pʁɔ.fil.ʁa/	profilerons /pʁɔ.fil.ʁɔ̃/	profilerez /pʁɔ.fil.ʁe/	profileront /pʁɔ.fil.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	profilerais /pʁɔ.fil.ʁɛ/	profilerais /pʁɔ.fil.ʁɛ/	profilerait /pʁɔ.fil.ʁɛ/	profilerions /pʁɔ.fi.lə.ʁjɔ̃/	profileriez /pʁɔ.fi.lə.ʁje/	profileraient /pʁɔ.fil.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	profile /pʁɔ.fil/	profiles /pʁɔ.fil/	profile /pʁɔ.fil/	profilions /pʁɔ.fi.ljɔ̃/	profiliez /pʁɔ.fi.lje/	profilent /pʁɔ.fil/
	imperfect2	profilasse /pʁɔ.fi.las/	profilasses /pʁɔ.fi.las/	profilât /pʁɔ.fi.la/	profilassions /pʁɔ.fi.la.sjɔ̃/	profilassiez /pʁɔ.fi.la.sje/	profilassent /pʁɔ.fi.las/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	profile /pʁɔ.fil/	—	profilons /pʁɔ.fi.lɔ̃/	profilez /pʁɔ.fi.le/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Derived terms

• profilage
• profileur

Further reading

• “profiler”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

profiler m

1. indefinite plural of profil

Verb

profiler

1. imperative of profilere

Swedish

Noun

profiler

1. indefinite plural of profil