highlight — English Dictionary

Noun

1. An area or a spot in a drawing, painting, or photograph that is strongly illuminated.

   Antonyms

   lowlight

   Examples

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   The image blurred into the highlight, like something familiar seen beneath disturbed though clear water; he looked at the familiar image with a kind of quiet horror and despair, at a face suddenly older in sin than he would ever be, a face more blurred than sweet, at eyes more secret than soft.

2. An especially significant or interesting detail or event or period of time.

   Usage

   • Figurative

   Examples

   Meeting my future wife was the highlight of my trip to Spain.

   We'll be broadcasting the news highlights every half an hour.

3. A strand or spot of hair dyed a different color than the rest.

   Narrower terms

   lowlight

Verb

1. To make prominent; emphasize.

   Usage

   • Transitive

   Synonyms

   relieve

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   The Guardian has spoken to dozens of Europeans who have left, or are planning to leave. Their stories highlight surprising new migration routes – from Lisbon to Luanda, Dublin to Perth, Barcelona to Buenos Aires – as well as more traditional migration patterns.

   Farmer highlights the fact that the reasons why causing offence is (or is not) deemed criminalizable are often historically specific, and follows Duff in counselling against attempts to ground criminalization in some 'master principle'[…]

   The proposal in connection with taxonymy is that a taxonym must (a) further specify a highlighted feature of the hypernym and (b) must similarly highlight it. From this it will follow that the reason stallion and foal are not good taxonyms of horse, is that they highlight features not highlighted in horse; a similar explanation holds for blonde and woman; likewise, prostitute is not a good taxonym of woman because it highlights profession, but is a good taxonym of sex-worker, because it specifies further and highlights what is highlighted in sex-worker, namely, type of work.

   Severe disruptions in the visual cortex was^([sic]) also observed when disrupting cholinergic retinal waves in ephrin double knockout (ephrin-A2/A5) mice, thus highlighting the importance of neural activity and ephrin-As acting together to control retinogeniculate and retinocortical patterning in normal development.

   In a Commons Written Reply to Shadow Rail Minister Tan Dhesi, regarding any assessment of the impact on open access operators by the decision to move away from franchising […], Heaton-Harris highlighted that non-franchised operators run trains without a contractual relationship with Government.

   Former United Nations ambassador and current GOP presidential hopeful Nikki Haley slammed fellow Republicans former President Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis Monday in a campaign letter highlighting Haley’s first quarter accomplishments.

2. To be a highlight of.

   Usage

   • Transitive

3. To mark (important passages of text), e.g. with a fluorescent marker pen or in a wordprocessor, as a means of memory retention or for later reference.

   Usage

   • Transitive

4. To dye (part of the hair) a different color than the rest.

   Usage

   • Transitive

5. To seek the attention of (a user) on IRC by mentioning their name in a message, causing that message to appear highlighted on their screen.

   Usage

   • Internet
   • Transitive

   Examples

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   You could have asked: is there a reason this easy patch was not applied, either on IRC or private mail by me. You did write a comment on IRC and I did see it. Problem is that you did not highlight me _and_ you did not wait for an answer.

   You must be somewhere completely different. I’ve looked for several days and don’t see you. But: I’m kind of blind from time to time - please feel free to highlight me ([Sno]) or probably (H. Merijn Brand) Tux or vanHoesel (Theo van Hoesel).

Noun

1. the most interesting or memorable part

   Synonyms

   high spot

   Broader terms

   detailparticularitem

   Examples

   the highlight of the tour was our visit to the Vatican

2. an area of lightness in a picture

   Synonyms

   highlighting

   Broader terms

   lightlightness

Verb

1. move into the foreground to make more visible or prominent

   Synonyms

   foregroundspotlightplay up

   Broader terms

   bring outset off

   Examples

   The introduction highlighted the speaker's distinguished career in linguistics

2. apply a highlighter to one's cheeks or eyebrows in order to make them more prominent

   Broader terms

   make up

   Examples

   highlight the area above your eyebrows