Feature vs. Profile — What's the Difference?

Any of the distinct parts of the face, as the eyes, nose, or mouth.

A side view of an object or structure, especially of the human head.

Often features The overall appearance of the face or its parts.

A representation of an object or structure seen from the side.

A prominent or distinctive part, quality, or characteristic

An outline of an object.

A property of linguistic units or forms

Degree of exposure to public notice; visibility

In generative linguistics, any of various abstract entities that specify or combine to specify phonological, morphological, semantic, and syntactic properties of linguistic forms and that act as the targets of linguistic rules and operations.

A biographical account presenting the subject's most noteworthy characteristics and achievements.

The main film presentation at a theater.

A set of characteristics that identify or are thought to identify a particular type of person

A long, narrative movie, typically lasting more than one hour.

A formal summary or analysis of data, often in the form of a graph or table, representing distinctive features or characteristics

A special attraction at an entertainment.

(Geology) A vertical section of soil or rock showing the sequence of the various layers.

A prominent or special article, story, or department in a newspaper or periodical.

To draw or shape a profile of.

An item advertised or offered as particularly attractive or as an inducement

To produce a profile of

Outward appearance; form or shape.

To engage in the ethnic or racial profiling of (a person).

Physical beauty.

(countable) The outermost shape, view, or edge of an object.

To give special attention to; display, publicize, or make prominent.

(countable) The shape, view, or shadow of a person's head from the side; a side view.

To have or include as a prominent part or characteristic

(countable) A summary or collection of information, especially about a person

To depict or outline the features of.

A specific page or field in which users can provide various types of personal information in software or Internet systems.

(Informal) To picture mentally; imagine

Reputation, prominence; noticeability.

(obsolete) One's structure or make-up: form, shape, bodily proportions.

(uncountable) The amount by which something protrudes.

An important or main item.

(archaeology) A smoothed (e.g., troweled or brushed) vertical surface of an excavation showing evidence of at least one feature or diagnostic specimen; the graphic recording of such as by sketching, photographing, etc.

(media) A long, prominent article or item in the media, or the department that creates them; frequently used technically to distinguish content from news.

Character; totality of related characteristics; signature; status (especially in scientific, technical, or military uses).

(film) feature film

(architecture) A section of any member, made at right angles with its main lines, showing the exact shape of mouldings etc.

Any of the physical constituents of the face (eyes, nose, etc.).

(civil engineering) A drawing exhibiting a vertical section of the ground along a surveyed line, or graded work, as of a railway, showing elevations, depressions, grades, etc.

(computing) A beneficial capability of a piece of software.

(military slang) An exemption from certain types of duties due to injury or disability.

The cast or structure of anything, or of any part of a thing, as of a landscape, a picture, a treaty, or an essay; any marked peculiarity or characteristic.

(transitive) To create a summary or collection of information about (a person, etc.).

(archaeology) Something discerned from physical evidence that helps define, identify, characterize, and interpret an archeological site.

To act based on such a summary, especially one that is a stereotype; to engage in profiling.

(engineering) Characteristic forms or shapes of parts. For example, a hole, boss, slot, cut, chamfer, or fillet.

(transitive) To draw in profile or outline.

An individual measurable property or characteristic of a phenomenon being observed; the input of a model.

To give a definite form by chiselling, milling, etc.

(music) The act of being featured in a piece of music.

To measure the performance of various parts of (a program) so as to locate bottlenecks.

(linguistics) The elements into which linguistic units can be broken down.

An outline, or contour; as, the profile of an apple.

(transitive) To ascribe the greatest importance to something within a certain context.

A human head represented sidewise, or in a side view; the side face or half face.

(transitive) To star, to contain.

A section of any member, made at right angles with its main lines, showing the exact shape of moldings and the like.

(intransitive) To appear, to make an appearance.

To draw the outline of; to draw in profile, as an architectural member.

To have features resembling.

To shape the outline of an object by passing a cutter around it.

The make, form, or outward appearance of a person; the whole turn or style of the body; esp., good appearance.

An analysis (often in graphical form) representing the extent to which something exhibits various characteristics;

The make, cast, or appearance of the human face, and especially of any single part of the face; a lineament. (pl.) The face, the countenance.

A side view representation of an object (especially a human face)

The cast or structure of anything, or of any part of a thing, as of a landscape, a picture, a treaty, or an essay; any marked peculiarity or characteristic; as, one of the features of the landscape.

Biographical sketch

A form; a shape.

Degree of exposure to public notice;

A prominent aspect of something;

A vertical section of the Earth's crust showing the different horizons or layers

The characteristic parts of a person's face: eyes and nose and mouth and chin;

Write about;

The principal (full-length) film in a program at a movie theater;

Represent in profile, by drawing or painting

A special or prominent article in a newspaper or magazine;

An article of merchandise that is displayed or advertised more than other articles

Have as a feature;

Wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner;