profiler
noun [ C ] uk/ˈprəʊ.faɪ.lər/ us/ˈproʊ.faɪ.lɚ/
(INFORMATION)
侧写师（根据可获得的信息，勾画某人，如罪犯，的心态或预测其行为的人）
a person who predicts the likely behaviour or description of someone such as a criminal, based on the information that is available about them
Police are liaising closely with a criminal profiler who is advising them of the potential motives, lifestyles, and psychology of possible abductors. 警方与一名犯罪侧写师合作紧密，该侧写师为警方分析潜在绑架者可能的动机、生活方式和心理方面的情况。
In all his years as a psychological profiler, he had rarely come across a spy whose outward life seemed so free of crisis or conflict. 在多年作心侧写师的职业生涯中，他很少遇到表面生活似乎没有危机或冲突的间谍。
分析工具；分析程序
a device, program, etc. that finds out information about people or things in order to create a description of what they are like
They use a facility called the "investor profiler" that asks questions about the customer's financial circumstances to build a picture of his or her attitude to risk and the purpose of the investment. 他们利用一种叫做“投资者分析师”的工具，询问客户的财务状况，从而了解客户对风险的态度和投资目的。
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- He has worked for the FBI as a hostage negotiator and a profiler for 25 years.
- One line of inquiry for officers, based on information from a profiler, is that the murderer looks like someone who has local knowledge, a local person.
- In 20 years with the FBI his pioneering work as a profiler has helped solve many murders.
- These funds have been deliberately built so an investor goes through a risk profiler, to ensure they are matched with the correct fund.
(COMPUTING)
（在电脑应用运行时收集其他程序相关信息的）动态分析程序
a computer program that checks and reports on how another program is working
A coverage profiler lets you analyse the performance of your code, and detect code that is never called. 覆盖率分析程序可以让您分析代码的性能，并检测从未调用过的代码。
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- AMD offers a powerful code profiler, called CodeAnalyst, that's available for free download.
- They have created a commercial-development environment called Zend Studio that includes a sophisticated debugger, a profiler, and other features.
- The Profiler lists the performance characteristics of each of your script’s functions, making it easy to pinpoint problem areas and drill down to the offending lines of code.
- The IDE also included a code profiler that could report on which parts of the program were using the most time.