highlight
[hahy-lahyt]
- to emphasize or make prominent.
- to create highlights in (a photograph or engraving).
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- 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.
- the area of most intense light on a represented form, as in a painting or photograph.
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Origin of highlight
Synonyms
See more synonyms for highlight on Thesaurus.com1. stress, accent, underline, feature.
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Examples from the Web for highlight
Contemporary Examples
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.
Inside ‘The Sex Factor’: Where 16 Men and Women Vie For Porn ImmortalityAurora Snow
November 22, 2014
The documents also highlight the apparent complicity by secular law enforcement in keeping some of these offenders out of jail.
Historical Examples
The newsroom posted this cartoon each Sunday and It was the highlight of the day.
The Biography of a RabbitRoy Benson
They were matters which the Chief Inspector did not highlight; evidently he did not regard them as of major importance.
Judgments of the Court of Appeal of New Zealand on Proceedings to Review Aspects of the Report of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Mount Erebus Aircraft DisasterSir Owen Woodhouse, R. B. Cooke, Ivor L. M. Richardson, Duncan Wallace McMullin, and Sir Edward Somers
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 Kennedy
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.
Warren Commission (7 of 26): Hearings Vol. VII (of 15)The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy
On 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 Kennedy
highlight
- 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
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- 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 Origin and History for highlight
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