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profile
Noun
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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.
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A profile is a picture of a person.
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A profile is the most visible parts of an object.
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A profile is a person's head, being viewed from the side.
profile
Verb
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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.
drag
Verb
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If you drag something, you pull it, usually with difficulty.
She heard the noise of a chair being dragged to the window.
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If you drag your feet, you move or do something slowly.
Six months later, when nothing had happened, they complained that the city was still dragging its feet.
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If you drag somebody somewhere, you take them there but they don't want to go.
Dad sent me to drag you back home.
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If you drag yourself somewhere, you go there with difficulty, often because you're tired or sick.
I dragged myself out of bed and made a cup of coffee.
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If you drag something on a computer screen, you move it from one place to another using a pointer.
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If something drags you down, it makes you feel unhappy.
drag
Noun
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If something is a drag, it's not fun and you don't want to do it.
Christmas was a real drag this year, since I was living alone.
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If someone is a drag, they don't enjoy fun activities or they stop you from having fun.
He's such a drag to be with, studying all the time.
Christmas was a real drag this year, since I was living alone.
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If you take a drag from a cigarette, you close your mouth and inhale through it.
I took the final drag from my final cigarette, and put it out, for good.
coefficient
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noun
a constant number that serves as a measure of some property or characteristic