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high·light
Audio Help [hahy-lahyt] Pronunciation Key verb, -light·ed, -light·ing, noun
Audio Help [hahy-lahyt] Pronunciation Key verb, -light·ed, -light·ing, noun –verb (used with object)
–noun
| 1. | to emphasize or make prominent. |
| 2. | to create highlights in (a photograph or engraving). |
| 3. | Also, high light. an important, conspicuous, memorable, or enjoyable event, scene, part, or the like: the highlight of his talk; the highlight of the concert series. |
| 4. | the area of most intense light on a represented form, as in a painting or photograph. |
| Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2006. |
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tr.v. high·light·ed, high·light·ing, high·lights
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2006 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
highlight
1658, originally of paintings, "the brightest part of a subject;" fig. sense of "outstanding feature or characteristic" is from 1855; the verb is from 1934.
| Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper |
| highlight | |
noun | |
| 1. | the most interesting or memorable part; "the highlight of the tour was our visit to the Vatican" |
| 2. | an area of lightness in a picture |
verb | |
| 1. | move into the foreground to make more visible or prominent; "The introduction highlighted the speaker's distinguished career in linguistics" [syn: foreground] [ant: background] |
| 2. | apply a highlighter to one's cheeks or eyebrows in order to make them more prominent; "highlight the area above your eyebrows" |
| WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University. |
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