6 meanings
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1 —as in:
highlight the main findings
Definition
emphasize (call attention to something)- The main purpose of this passage is to highlight the degree of income inequality.
highlight = emphasize (call attention to)
Other Uses (with this meaning)
- The mayor highlighted positive developments in the city.
- The story highlights a growing problem in our society.
- She showed me how she uses makeup to highlight her cheekbones.
- The pictures were supposed to show the equality of the sexes or highlight discrimination against women.Malala Yousafzai -- I Am Malala
- The glow spilled onto Toby's angular face, glinting off the rims of his glasses and highlighting his almond-shaped eyes .... which were staring down at me.Kody Keplinger -- The DUFF: (Designated Ugly Fat Friend)
- She highlighted my awkwardness, my lack of knowledge about the right things to say and do. I was a blundering adolescent in her eyes, and she was trying to let me down easy.Daniel Keyes -- Flowers for Algernon — Novel
- In 2009, ABC News ran a news report about Appalachian America, highlighting a phenomenon known locally as "Mountain Dew mouth": painful dental problems in young children, generally caused by too much sugary soda.J.D. Vance -- Hillbilly Elegy
- And we're adding a fashion column, highlighting some of the best outfits worn by our members, and a makeup column with all the latest trends.Kathryn Stockett -- The Help
- The operating room is small and crowded, full of blindingly bright lights, which highlight how grubby this place is.Gayle Forman -- If I Stay
highlighted = emphasized (called attention to)
highlights = emphasizes (draws attention to)
highlight = emphasize (call attention to)
highlighting = emphasizing (drawing attention to something)
highlighted = made very noticeable
highlighting = emphasizing (drawing attention to)
highlighting = emphasizing (drawing attention to)
highlight = emphasize (call attention to)
2 —as in:
highlights of the year
Definition
something that stands out- Did you watch the video highlights?
highlights = best parts
Other Uses (with this meaning)
- It was the highlight of our vacation.
- During the highlights, they periodically show the winner's reaction up on a box in the corner of the screen.Suzanne Collins -- The Hunger Games
- It was true that many grown-ups in Welch talked about how senior year in high school was the highlight of their lives.Jeannette Walls -- The Glass Castle
- Now, I'd heard all about Bible in Sunday school or at church, but to be frank, I just remembered the highlights-the Lord sending the seven plagues so the Israelites could leave Egypt, Jonah being swallowed by a whale, Jesus walking across the water or raising Lazarus from the dead.Nicholas Sparks -- A Walk to Remember
- The only highlight was Juniper the tree nymph, who screamed, "Grover!" and gave her boyfriend a flying tackle hug, making everybody cheer.Rick Riordan -- The Last Olympian
- Whoever puts together the highlights has to choose what sort of story to tell.Suzanne Collins -- The Hunger Games
- For him, this was perhaps the highlight of an otherwise bleak existence.Richard Wright -- Black Boy
- But that evening She on TV4 led off with an eleven-minute summary of the highlights in Blomkvist's accusations.Stieg Larsson -- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
- The highlight of the presentations, however, was Singbe's retelling of their voyage on the Amistad in his native Mende, with James Covey interpreting.Alexs Pate -- Amistad
highlight = best part
highlights = best parts
highlight = best part
highlights = things that stand out
highlight = something that stands out
highlights = things to emphasize as important
highlight = best part
highlights = things that stand out
highlight = best part
3 —as in:
highlights and shadows
Definition
noun: something that is lighter and draws attention — such as an area of a paintingverb: making something lighter — such as an area of a painting
- I'm learning to enrich my painting with highlights and shadows.
highlights = lighter areas
Other Uses (with this meaning)
- Her photographic portraits tend to minimize the highlights and boost the shadows.
- My face is relatively clear of makeup, just a bit of highlighting here and there.Suzanne Collins -- The Hunger Games
- The gold griffins gleamed with colored highlights garnered from scores of lanterns.Christopher Paolini -- Eragon
- The sandstone around her nose shimmered like gilded dew, turning clear with dancing silver highlights.Christopher Paolini -- Eragon
- So much I saw then, all vaguely for the flickering of the lightning, in blinding highlights and dense black shadows.H.G. Wells -- The War of the Worlds
- Around his temples, the gray highlights were advancing, making their way deeper into his thicket of coarse black hair.Dan Brown -- The Da Vinci Code
- She couldn't believe that the sweater, brown with bands of pale red and green highlights, cost half as much as the sleeping bag, which was threadbare and patched.Scott Westerfeld -- Uglies
- He puts up my hair first, in the braided style my mother introduced him to, then proceeds with my makeup. Last year he used little so that the audience would recognize me when I landed in the arena. But now my face is almost obscured by the dramatic highlights and dark shadows.Suzanne Collins -- Catching Fire
- Not until we're all sitting out onstage and Caesar Flickerman, hair and face highlighted in lavender this year, has done his opening spiel and the tributes begin their interviews.Suzanne Collins -- Catching Fire
highlights = lighter areas
highlighting = emphasizing by making some areas lighter
highlights = shining points
highlights = lighter areas
highlights = things made bright
highlights = lighter areas
highlights = parts that are lighter and draw attention
highlights = areas made lighter to draw attention
highlighted = emphasized with areas of color
4 —as in:
highlights in hair
Definition
noun: a strip of hair that is lighterverb: making strips of hair lighter
- The salon added highlights to her hair.
highlights = strips of hair that are lighter in color
Other Uses (with this meaning)
- She gets blond highlights in the summer.
- She shook out her hair, with so-red-they-were-pink highlights.John Green -- Turtles All the Way Down
- She was a pretty Asian woman with red highlighted hair tied in a bun.Rick Riordan -- The Titan's Curse
- She had done away with the drab ponytails, let her hair grow, and streaked it with red highlights.Khaled Hosseini -- A Thousand Splendid Suns
- That hair was jet black, so black that it didn't even have lighter highlights, and electric with curls spilling over her shoulders.Jane Yolen -- The Devils Arithmetic
- Her hair was a tangled mess of highlighted blonde tresses.David Baldacci -- Zero Day
- Some girls got things called highlights, and others, like Sosie, had the color changed completely.Kiera Cass -- The Selection
- Phillip points to Nancy and says, "Look at Nancy's hair." I look and see its not long like it used to be and it is highlighted with red streaks.Jaycee Lee Dugard -- A Stolen Life
- Spencer Hastings looked across the table at her mother, Veronica, who nervously ran her hands through her perfectly highlighted ash-blond hair.Sara Shepard -- Pretty Little Liars
highlights = strips of hair that are lighter in color
highlights = strips of hair that are lighter in color
highlighted = with strips of hair lighter in color
highlights = strips of hair made lighter in color
highlights = lighter strands
highlighted = with strips of hair lighter in color
highlights = strips of hair made lighter in color
highlighted = with strips of hair lighter in color
highlighted = with strips of hair lighter in color
5 —as in:
highlights with a yellow marker
Definition
to mark important text; or the text that is marked — typically marked using a felt-tip pen with a bright, transparent ink in order to reinforce memory and assist later review- The previous owner of the book highlighted with a yellow marker, so I'm using a green one.
highlighted = marked important text
Other Uses (with this meaning)
- With a yellow marker, she highlighted this quote: "He who hurries through life hurries to his grave."
- What are the most highlighted quotes from the book according to Kindle's e-reader?
- Several such passages are starred and highlighted in the dog-eared text, the margins filled with cryptic notes printed in McCandless's distinctive hand.Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild
- Dad had highlighted a Family Ties marathon for the following Sunday night, using the little slip of paper as a bookmark.Kody Keplinger -- The DUFF: (Designated Ugly Fat Friend)
- Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago — passage highlighted in one of the books found with Chris McCandless's remains.Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild
- She points out the two highlighted numbers on the bottom of the screen.Rick Yancey -- The 5th Wave
- I thought of the highlighted Whitman: "If no other in the world be aware I sit content, / And if each and all be aware I sit content."John Green -- Paper Towns
- Henry David Thoreau, Walden, or Life in the Woods — passage highlighted in one of the books found with Chris McCandless's remains.Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild
- If you go to the end of 'Song of Myself,' she highlights this stuff about dying.John Green -- Paper Towns
highlighted = marked (important text)
highlighted = marked (important text)
highlighted = marked as important
highlighted = marked as important
highlighted = marked as important
highlighted = marked as important
highlighted = marked as important
highlighted = marked as important
highlights = marks as important
6 —as in:
highlights the text and deletes
Definition
select (on a computer screen)- Just highlight and delete the paragraph.
highlight = select (on a computer screen)
Other Uses (with this meaning)
- Highlight the word and then make it bold.
- Peter highlighted the text on his computer screen and deleted it.Jodi Picoult -- Nineteen Minutes
highlight = select (on a computer screen)
highlighted = selected
More commonly:
The form highlighter, can also refer to a type of makeup that draws attention to parts of the face.
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