Meaning

(painting, photography) An area or a spot in a drawing, painting, or photograph that is strongly illuminated..

Definitions by Sense

1. (painting, photography) An area or a spot in a drawing, painting, or photograph that is strongly illuminated.
2. (figurative) An especially significant or interesting detail or event or period of time.
3. (cosmetics) A strand or spot of hair dyed a different color than the rest.
4. (transitive) To make prominent; emphasize.
5. (transitive) To be a highlight of.
6. (transitive) To mark (important passages of text), e.g. with a fluorescent marker pen or in a wordprocessor, as a means of memory retention or for later reference.
7. (transitive) To dye (part of the hair) a different color than the rest.
8. (transitive, Internet) To seek the attention of (a user) on IRC by mentioning their name in a message, causing that message to appear highlighted on their screen.

Example Sentences

The image blurred into the highlight, like something familiar seen beneath disturbed though clear water; he looked at the familiar image with a kind of quiet horror and despair, at a face suddenly older in sin than he would ever be, a face more blurred than sweet, at eyes more secret than soft.

Meeting my future wife was the highlight of my trip to Spain.

We'll be broadcasting the news highlights every half an hour.

The Guardian has spoken to dozens of Europeans who have left, or are planning to leave. Their stories highlight surprising new migration routes – from Lisbon to Luanda, Dublin to Perth, Barcelona to Buenos Aires – as well as more traditional migration patterns.

Farmer highlights the fact that the reasons why causing offence is (or is not) deemed criminalizable are often historically specific, and follows Duff in counselling against attempts to ground criminalization in some 'master principle'[…]

The proposal in connection with taxonymy is that a taxonym must (a) further specify a highlighted feature of the hypernym and (b) must similarly highlight it. From this it will follow that the reason stallion and foal are not good taxonyms of horse, is that they highlight features not highlighted in horse; a similar explanation holds for blonde and woman; likewise, prostitute is not a good taxonym of woman because it highlights profession, but is a good taxonym of sex-worker, because it specifies further and highlights what is highlighted in sex-worker, namely, type of work.

Severe disruptions in the visual cortex was^([sic]) also observed when disrupting cholinergic retinal waves in ephrin double knockout (ephrin-A2/A5) mice, thus highlighting the importance of neural activity and ephrin-As acting together to control retinogeniculate and retinocortical patterning in normal development.

Word Forms

• highlights
• hilite
• highlighting
• highlighted
• highlit

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