PPage 422
- English Word Proficience Definition Alt. of Proficiency
- English Word Proficiency Definition The quality of state of being proficient; advance in the acquisition of any art, science, or knowledge; progression in knowledge; improvement; adeptness; as, to acquire proficiency in music.
- English Word Proficient Definition One who has made considerable advances in any business, art, science, or branch of learning; an expert; an adept; as, proficient in a trade; a proficient in mathematics, music, etc.
- English Word Proficient Definition Well advanced in any branch of knowledge or skill; possessed of considerable acquirements; well-skilled; versed; adept,
- English Word Proficiently Definition In a proficient manner.
- English Word Proficuous Definition Profitable; advantageous; useful.
- English Word Profile Definition An outline, or contour; as, the profile of an apple.
- English Word Profile Definition A human head represented sidewise, or in a side view; the side face or half face.
- English Word Profile Definition A section of any member, made at right angles with its main lines, showing the exact shape of moldings and the like.
- English Word Profile Definition 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.
- English Word Profile Definition to draw the outline of; to draw in profile, as an architectural member.
- English Word Profile Definition To shape the outline of an object by passing a cutter around it.
- English Word Profiled Definition of Profile
- English Word Profiling Definition of Profile
- English Word Profiling Definition In the construction of fieldworks, the erection at proper intervals of wooden profiles, to show to the workmen the sectional form of the parapets at those points.
- English Word Profilist Definition One who takes profiles.
- English Word Profit Definition Acquisition beyond expenditure; excess of value received for producing, keeping, or selling, over cost; hence, pecuniary gain in any transaction or occupation; emolument; as, a profit on the sale of goods.
- English Word Profit Definition Accession of good; valuable results; useful consequences; benefit; avail; gain; as, an office of profit,
- English Word Profit Definition To be of service to; to be good to; to help on; to benefit; to advantage; to avail; to aid; as, truth profits all men.
- English Word Profit Definition To gain advantage; to make improvement; to improve; to gain; to advance.
- English Word Profit Definition To be of use or advantage; to do or bring good.
- English Word Profitable Definition Yielding or bringing profit or gain; gainful; lucrative; useful; helpful; advantageous; beneficial; as, a profitable trade; profitable business; a profitable study or profession.
- English Word Profited Definition of Profit
- English Word Profiting Definition of Profit
- English Word Profiting Definition Gain; advantage; profit.
- English Word Profitless Definition Without profit; unprofitable.
- English Word Profligacy Definition The quality of state of being profligate; a profligate or very vicious course of life; a state of being abandoned in moral principle and in vice; dissoluteness.
- English Word Profligate Definition Overthrown; beaten; conquered.
- English Word Profligate Definition Broken down in respect of rectitude, principle, virtue, or decency; openly and shamelessly immoral or vicious; dissolute; as, profligate man or wretch.
- English Word Profligate Definition An abandoned person; one openly and shamelessly vicious; a dissolute person.