highlight
- to emphasize or make prominent.
- to create highlights in (a photograph or engraving).
- 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.
Origin of highlight
Synonyms for highlight
See more synonyms for on Thesaurus.comRelated Words for highlighting
ignite, shine, brighten, kindle, reveal, discover, highlight, emphasize, underscore, underline, publicize, accentuate, illuminate, stress, indicate, mark, expose, publish, introduce, reiterateExamples from the Web for highlighting
Contemporary Examples of highlighting
But how exacerbating anarchy in Libya and highlighting the power of the gun over politics serves U.S. interests remains unclear.
News of doctor and nurse drug overdoses hit the press this week, highlighting an ongoing (and growing) problem.
On Monday, he personally thanked Edward Snowden for highlighting some of the abuses made possible by his invention.
In the meantime, Obama should be highlighting mobility nonstop from here to 2017.
But surely the most damaging is that it reduces the power of highlighting true acts of hateful racism.
Historical Examples of highlighting
There's highlighting and emphasizing selected perceptics and such.
The PremiereRichard Sabia
And it took some highlighting and sidelighting with the use of a spotlight to actually make those things discernible at all.
Warren Commission (4 of 26): Hearings Vol. IV (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
- 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