profiled
- 1Simple past and past participle of profile.
The documentary profiled three families living near the coast.
Engineers profiled the metal edge to reduce drag along the wing.
Note
One spelling does double duty: the silent e of profile simply takes -d, and the result serves both as the simple past (the paper profiled her) and, after have or be, as the participle (she has been profiled). Every meaning of the verb travels with it: the journalist's summary, the suspicion built on stereotype, the draftsman's outline, the machinist's shaped edge, the programmer's hunt for bottlenecks. Context, not form, tells them apart.
profiled is a form of profile
profile, verb: To compile a summary or collection of information about a person or thing. Full entry
- Spelling
- profile → profiled: add -d
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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