highlight
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.
Sometimes 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.
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.
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How to use highlight in a sentence
Your letter highlights so many of the harsh realities trans people face, specifically in regard to how society rejects us.
Dear Leelah, We Will Fight On For You: A Letter to a Dead Trans Teen | Parker Molloy | January 1, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTJean Piaget, the most famous developmental psychologist of the 20th Century, highlights this in a classic study.
Why Are Millennials Unfriending Organized Religion? | Vlad Chituc | November 9, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTEither way, it highlights the subtle and fascinating way life shapes—as well as being shaped by—its environment.
Why Did It Take So Long For Complex Life To Evolve On Earth? Blame Oxygen. | Matthew R. Francis | November 2, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTGruelle's story highlights the overlooked fact that leaving an abusive relationship can be lethal.
Cosby is telling race jokes, and even The New York Times piece highlights his race jokes.
A Full-Length Bill Cosby Portrait: From Track Star to Ugly Sweaters | Scott Porch | September 24, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
He stared into the thick darkness and saw an oval face, crowned by waving brown hair, that glinted gold in the highlights.
The Imaginary Marriage | Henry St. John CooperA recent event highlights exactly how close we are to crossing the line into the world of Little Brother.
Little Brother | Cory DoctorowAll three wrought in chryselephantine gold and ivory; the gold with flowing pallid highlights.
Zero Data | Charles SaphroMayne suspected the greenish highlights were reflections of the forest color.
A Transmutation of Muddles | Horace Brown FyfeThis epilogue highlights ongoing development of the theory by its authors and by other nurses.
Nursing as Caring | Anne Boykin
British Dictionary definitions for highlight
/ (ˈhaɪˌlaɪt) /
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
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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