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The view you only get when someone stops looking you in the eye.
means A side-on view of something, or by extension a concise summary of a person's characteristics, history, or data.
from From Italian 'profilo,' meaning a drawing in outline, built from 'pro-' (forth) and 'filare' (to spin out a thread or draw a line) — itself rooted in Latin 'filum,' a thread. The image is of a line traced along an edge, the contour you see when a face turns sideways. English borrowed it in the 1600s for the literal outline view; the modern sense of a written sketch of someone's life or qualities followed naturally, since both reduce a whole person to a single revealing line.
- coin profiles
- Faces on currency face sideways for harder forgery
- word origin
- From Italian profilare, to draw in outline
- egyptian art
- Ancients drew faces in profile, eyes front
- forensic use
- Profiling predicts behavior from patterns alone
- silhouette craze
- Profile portraits were the cheap photos of 1700s
facebook profile — mark zuckerberg's 2004 creation that lets 3 billion+ users create personal pages with photos, bio, and activity feed
criminal profile — fbi behavioral analysis tool used in the 1970s by john douglas to predict suspect characteristics in serial crimes
dna profile — genetic fingerprinting technique developed by alec jeffreys in 1984, now standard in forensic investigations worldwide
user profile — netflix's 2013 feature allowing multiple household members to have personalized watchlists and recommendations on one account