Meaning

4 senses
  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.

    Profiler, Profilerin, Profilersteller

  3. A device that analyzes something and builds up a profile.

    a sediment profiler

  4. A software program that measures the performance of different portions of another program in order to locate bottlenecks.

Examples

3 sentences
  1. Sami was a criminal profiler.

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  2. Sami is a criminal profiler, in other words, he can get inside the mind of a killer.

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  3. Sami Bakir is one of the FBI's most experienced criminal profilers.

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Translations

2 languages
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By meaning 1
person who creates a profile for something or some:

Origin

From profile + -er.

From profile + -er.

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Forms

plural: profilers
Singularprofiler
Pluralprofilers

regular

Word family

3 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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