All 6 Uses
highlight
in
The Blind Side, by Michael Lewis
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- He didn't yet have an impressive highlight reel of game film to pre— cede him, and the folks up in Munford apparently didn't read either the Memphis newspapers or Tom Lemming's newsletter.
p. 133.9highlight = something that stands out
- This point was driven home to him the Saturday before the Vikings game, when Bill Walsh called the team into the auditorium for the pleasurable viewing of its past highlights.
p. 237.6highlights = best plays
- But at the very end of the highlight reel, Walsh, perversely, had inserted a single negative play: the Doleman sack.
p. 237.8 *highlight = something that stands out
- This served mainly to highlight their near-total confusion.
p. 283.6 *highlight = emphasize (call attention to)
- He was a little red fifty-six and the number was always highlighted and circled.†
p. 21.4
- When he was eight years old he'd seen a highlight film of Lawrence Taylor and right then and there knew who he was going to be when he grew up.†
p. 327.9
Definitions:
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(1)
(highlight as in: highlight the main findings) emphasize (call attention to something)
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(highlight as in: highlights of the year) something that stands out
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(highlight as in: highlights and shadows) noun: something that is lighter and draws attention -- such as an area of a painting
verb: making something lighter -- such as an area of a painting -
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(highlight as in: highlights in hair) noun: a strip of hair that is lighter
verb: making strips of hair lighter -
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(highlight as in: highlights with a yellow marker) to mark important text; or something that is marked to draw attention to it -- as with a felt-tip pen with a bright, transparent ink
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(highlight as in: highlights the text and deletes) select (on a computer screen)
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) The form highlighter, can also refer to a type of makeup that draws attention to parts of the face.