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highlight
[ hahy-lahyt ]
verb (used with object)
- to emphasize or make prominent:
The lawsuit against the landlord highlighted the need for a stricter building code.
- to mark with a felt-tip highlighter:
I started highlighting the text (yellow for important ideas, blue for dates and facts), but I'm not sure it was productive in the long run.
- to create highlights in (a photograph or engraving).
- to dye (parts of the hair) lighter.
- to apply makeup to (the face) in places where light would naturally hit, to create a glowing effect:
After blending the foundation, highlight the cheekbones.
noun
- Sometimes high light. an important, conspicuous, memorable, or enjoyable event, scene, part, or the like: the highlight of the concert series.
the highlight of his talk;
the highlight of the concert series.
- the area of most intense light on a represented form, as in a painting or photograph.
- Usually high·lights. a section of hair that has been dyed lighter.
highlight
/ ˈhaɪˌlaɪt /
noun
- an area of the lightest tone in a painting, drawing, photograph, etc
- the most exciting or memorable part of an event or period of time
- often plural a bleached blond streak in the hair
verb
- painting drawing photog to mark (any brightly illuminated or prominent part of a form or figure) with light tone
- to bring notice or emphasis to
- to be the highlight of
- to produce blond streaks in (the hair) by bleaching
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Word History and Origins
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Example Sentences
Their confrontation at dinner was, without a doubt, the highlight of the episode.
He is my favorite Woodstock artist, the highlight of the entire festival.
Art is something that has been a highlight at The Center since its first group show—“The Center Show”—in 1989.
It can be really good if somebody is an amazing talent right off the bat or it can highlight your flaws.
The documents also highlight the apparent complicity by secular law enforcement in keeping some of these offenders out of jail.
There has been a highlight added along the bottom of the gun just forward of the trigger guard and just below Oswald's left hand.
There is a highlight along the top of the rifle between Oswald's left hand and the point where the rifle passes his left shoulder.
On Shaneyfelt Exhibit No. 1, the highlight does not denote the top of the weapon.
There is detail present that shows other areas of the gun, the breech, above the highlight.
Yes; I mentioned that the highlight along the top from the butt to the bolt is generally similar in that it is in a straight line.
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