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The entity or relation designated by a word. The profile functions by highlighting a substructure within a larger unit known as the base. Take the example hypotenuse. This word profiles the longest side in a right-angled triangle, while the base is the entire triangle, including all three of its sides. Without the base, the profile would be meaningless: there is no hypotenuse without a right-angled triangle. Hence the word hypotenuse designates a particular substructure within a larger conceptual structure.

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