1. Recording a person's behaviour and analysing psychological characteristics in order to predict or assess their ability in a certain sphere or to identify a particular group of people
   "facial profiling is a new form of airport security"

1. Describe or analyse the notable characteristics of someone or something, esp. as an article about someone
   "The author of this article profiles a famous painter"
    
2. Create or analyse a detailed record or assessment, especially of a person or group's behaviour, personality, or characteristics
   "Police profiled the suspect based on witness descriptions"; "The study profiled the habits of urban commuters"
    
3. Represent in profile, by drawing or painting
   "The artist profiled the subject's strong features"
    
4. [informal] (computing) analyse (a program, system, etc.) to measure performance or resource usage
   "They profiled the code to find bottlenecks"

Derived forms: profilings

Type of: compose, ident [informal], identification, indite [archaic], interpret, pen, represent, write

Encyclopedia: Profiling