highlight

[ hahy-lahyt ]

/ ˈhaɪˌlaɪt /

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verb (used with object), high·light·ed, high·light·ing.

to emphasize or make prominent.

to create highlights in (a photograph or engraving).

noun

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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climax, feature, focus, peak

Nearby words

highland park, highlander, highlands, highlands, the, highlife, highlight, highlight halftone, highlighter, highline, highly, highly strung

Origin of highlight

An Americanism dating back to 1850–55; high + light¹

SYNONYMS FOR highlight

1 stress, accent, underline, feature.

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Related forms

high·light·er, noun

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Examples from the Web for highlight

Their confrontation at dinner was, without a doubt, the highlight of the episode.
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He is my favorite Woodstock artist, the highlight of the entire festival.
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Art is something that has been a highlight at The Center since its first group show—“The Center Show”—in 1989.
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It can be really good if somebody is an amazing talent right off the bat or it can highlight your flaws.
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The documents also highlight the apparent complicity by secular law enforcement in keeping some of these offenders out of jail.
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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.
Warren Commission (7 of 26): Hearings Vol. VII (of 15)|The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy
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 Disaster|Sir Owen Woodhouse, R. B. Cooke, Ivor L. M. Richardson, Duncan Wallace McMullin, and Sir Edward Somers
The weapon has been retouched by placing a highlight along the stock almost up to the end of the bolt.
Warren Commission (4 of 26): Hearings Vol. IV (of 15)|The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy
There 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 Kennedy
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

British Dictionary definitions for highlight

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 (tr)

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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highlight

verb (used with object), high·light·ed, high·light·ing.

noun

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highlight

noun

verb (tr)