profile 程序开发中的术语

profile 程序开发中的术语
程序开发中常用的Profile 该如何理解？
我认为Profile 即可作名词又可作动词。

1.profile作为名词时常用的意思：
profile 本身意思是剖面, 侧面, 外形, 轮廓。

但现在常用这个字时，它的含义更进一层
a.简介，档案
my profile 表示我的个人信息。

For example, if you are writing an eCommerce website, "retrieve user's profile" means 查看用户的档案资料。

get user's name, age, shoping history, interests, etc. So profile can be understood as "outline of a person's characteristics".
company profile：公司概况，公司简介
个人简历用resume，个人资料用profile
b.profile 也作图表的意思：
A formal summary or analysis of data, often in the form of a graph or table, representing distinctive features or characteristics（引自金山词霸），一概图：对数据的正式概括或分析，经常用曲线图或图表的形式，其表现出事物的明显的特点或特色。

例如：side effect profile可译为:"不良反应分布图"或
者"不良反应范围"
2.Profile 作为动词时
when profile is used as a verb, it means create the outline of something, or summarize characterstics of it. "Profile a software program" means finding out the characterstics of the program, like how much memory it takes, how much time spent in each method, how often a method is called, etc.。