document profile

document Noun

— A document is a written record, often official. They stopped her at the airport and checked all her documents. A number of Chinese documents from 1000 span size="-2"BCE/span were recently discovered. On March 28, 1990, the government published a document listing the companies which it intended to privatize. — A document is a kind of computer text file. Can you send me that document by e-mail or fax? We should be able to edit your document using MS Word.

document Verb

— If you document something, you make a record of it, usually in writing. It's important for newspaper reporters to be there to document the war. We have documented number cases in which he has broken company policy.

profile Noun

— A profile is a short biographical description of a person. Because it was known that the serial killer was a European adult male, the police used that profile to exclude all women, children, and racial minorities from their list of suspects. — A profile is a picture of a person. — A profile is the most visible parts of an object. — A profile is a person's head, being viewed from the side.

profile Verb

— If somebody like the police or government profiles a person, they make judgements about them based on identifiable characteristics. Unfortunately, racial profiling causes problems for for Middle Eastern men when they fly.