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
I’m sure there are fans or media personnel who can’t wait to go back to covering Luka Dončić triple-doubles and James Harden highlights and all that.
What Happened In The NBA This Week? | Sara Ziegler (sara.ziegler@fivethirtyeight.com) | August 28, 2020 | FiveThirtyEightWith the season having started at the start of August, those subscribers also get to watch 15-minute highlights of matches 24 hours after they’ve aired on broadcaster Sky Sports before they get to watch the full match a week after it has aired.
“It’s been a source of some much-needed income’: Sports clubs are building subscription businesses on Facebook | Seb Joseph | August 18, 2020 | DigidayWe detailed our process for constructing those polling averages when we released them, so I’ll just review the highlights here.
How FiveThirtyEight’s 2020 Presidential Forecast Works — And What’s Different Because Of COVID-19 | Nate Silver (nrsilver@fivethirtyeight.com) | August 12, 2020 | FiveThirtyEightTo recreate the event feeling it streamed old FA Cup games from the 1990s and 2000s once a week, supplemented with several recaps and story-focused highlights of specific players or teams.
Read on for highlights of what we learned from each of our panelists.
Their confrontation at dinner was, without a doubt, the highlight of the episode.
‘Downton Abbey’ Review: A Fire, Some Sex, and Sad, Sad Edith | Kevin Fallon | January 5, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTHe is my favorite Woodstock artist, the highlight of the entire festival.
The Greatest Rock Voice of All Time Belonged to Joe Cocker | Ted Gioia | December 23, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTArt 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.
Inside ‘The Sex Factor’: Where 16 Men and Women Vie For Porn Immortality | Aurora Snow | November 22, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe 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.
Warren Commission (7 of 26): Hearings Vol. VII (of 15) | The President's Commission on the Assassination of President KennedyThere is a highlight along the top of the rifle between Oswald's left hand and the point where the rifle passes his left shoulder.
Warren Commission (7 of 26): Hearings Vol. VII (of 15) | The President's Commission on the Assassination of President KennedyOn Shaneyfelt Exhibit No. 1, the highlight does not denote the top of the weapon.
Warren Commission (7 of 26): Hearings Vol. VII (of 15) | The President's Commission on the Assassination of President KennedyThere is detail present that shows other areas of the gun, the breech, above the highlight.
Warren Commission (7 of 26): Hearings Vol. VII (of 15) | The President's Commission on the Assassination of President KennedyYes; 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.
Warren Commission (7 of 26): Hearings Vol. VII (of 15) | The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy
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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