A Portrait (n.) is a likeness true to life and yet more beautiful, done well — the poet should keep a man's defects and still ennoble him.
A Portrait (n.) is not made by similarity; that it represents N may rest on N's name written beneath it.
A Portrait (n.) is made one by being so designated in the catalogue.
A Portrait (n.) recognised — that's Mr N! — could be taken for madness: he sees paper with black lines on it and takes it for a man.
A Profile (n.) was something only criminals had in the age of the masses; now everyone has one, and it is the snare.
A Profile (n.) lists "loves to travel" as if anyone listed the opposite.
A Profile (n.) is photographed from the angle the person has practiced in the mirror.
A Profile (n.) is assembled by a person for an audience they insist they do not care about.
A Report (n.) is primarily for acting on; using it to test whoever gave it is a later game.
A Report (n.) exists mainly so that a meeting can be scheduled to discuss it.
A Report (n.) is judged by its summary and trusted for its length.
A Report (n.) gets a little softer at every desk it passes on the way up.