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highlight English

Meaning highlight meaning

What does highlight mean?
Definitions in simple English

highlight Verb

— If you highlight something, you make it more noticeable or obvious. I usually use a pen to highlight the important section in my textbook. Let me just highlight this point since many people misunderstand it. — If you highlight your hair, you make some parts a lighter colour.

highlight Noun

— A highlight is a particularly good part. The chicken was the highlight of the dinner, just amazing. I didn't see the game, but I watched the highlights on the news. — A highlight is a light-coloured area. The shirt was blue with yellow highlights.

highlight

— verb (= foreground) move into the foreground to make more visible or prominent The introduction highlighted the speaker's distinguished career in linguistics — verb apply a highlighter to one's cheeks or eyebrows in order to make them more prominent highlight the area above your eyebrows — noun the most interesting or memorable part the highlight of the tour was our visit to the Vatican — noun an area of lightness in a picture

Synonyms highlight synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as highlight?

highlight English » English

stress emphasize underline accentuate spotlight play up point foreground apex accent zenith tip summit peak climax acme underscore set off punctuate point up mark highlighting high spot feature emphasise emphasis draw attention to culmination weight topicalize termination stressed point star stand out sort signalize signalise show off select screen remark reaffirm put the stress on promise prominent pinpoint piece de resistance pick up observe masterpiece

Topics highlight topics

What do people use highlight to talk about?
Language and thought Soul, spirit Mental state

Attention
Language and thought Emotion Feel good Interested

Excited

Conjugation highlight conjugation

How do you conjugate highlight?

highlight · verb

Examples highlight examples

How do I use highlight in a sentence?

Simple sentences

This was the highlight of my day.

Movie subtitles

And yet, I suppose, it's also the moment 1,000 thieves have dreamt of as the highlight of their lives.
Ladies and gentlemen, the highlight of the show. The great international star, Alma Del Rio.
I'm proud to present now the highlight of the collection.
I suspect, the highlight of the tour.
People, this was the highlight of our event. I hope you enjoyed it.
It would be the highlight of the whole holiday.
If you use DC, you need a hundred exchanges to highlight New York, and then peripherals remains in the dark.
We could it highlight a whole State of New York, and more.
Miss Cassady, excluding Victor's performance mingling with you may turn out to be the highlight of the evening.
Here comes the highlight of our fashion show!
Let's highlight our lines, Sir.
This event at the L.A. Medical Center will be the highlight of your career.
And they tended to highlight, of course, anything they thought was negative about his character and his personality.
We were the highlight of their party.
One of the bit parts around my own, which serve to highlight me, featured a second comic.
I mean, this is the highlight of our harbor tour.
So I wouldn't miss the highlight.
Yes, a highlight.
That was the highlight of the second act.
This will be the highlight of your evening.
Darling, this is going to be the highlight of your career.
It's always a highlight of the bazaar to buy some of your fudge. And take it home where it is consumed with much joy.
This party is the highlight of the whole reunion.
I think it's gonna be the highlight of the whole day.
People, this was the highlight of our event.
Convenient location and time can highlight story to the rank of popular superstitions or legend.
It's the highlight.
We highlight that 51 would not collaborate with us consciously, but would be used without his knowledge by Sarah Robski.
Then, as now, the highlight of the day's festivities was a rousing fireworks display.
I welcome the realization of this traditional ball, a youth celebration ball that's a highlight of the Carnival of Horner.
We're pleased to chat when we dance, so to me it's also a highlight of the Carnival of Horner.
This ball is the highlight of the Horner Carnival.
As a highlight of our programme, straight from Galia, come the barabarians which wouldn't submit to our great emperor Caesar!
Everything you need to accent and highlight your changing look.
Highlight any tachyon signatures which show subspace inertial displacement.
The highlight of the evening.
It's not the highlight of our evening.
To highlight the programs you plan to watch.

News and current affairs

Intelligence services can educate the public, explaining the origins of the alienation that underpins terrorism, how radicalization and recruitment occur, and highlight terrorists' goals, methods, and targeting strategies.
These transactions highlight the broader strategy of buying time.
Nonetheless, the visit will highlight several important features of the bilateral relationship.
As their economies have expanded, Asian countries have gained the confidence to construct and exalt a new past, in which they either downplay their own aggressions or highlight their steadfastness in the face of brutal victimization.
Chirac's remarks highlight the EU's distance from its ideal of equality for all of its members.
The G-20's real power is to highlight such challenges and generate informed debate on the issues as a prelude to action.
Campaigners for carbon-emission reductions regularly highlight the melting snow and ice of Mount Kilimanjaro.
But it does highlight the challenge that the country faces today - namely, to rebuild its export sector from the ground up.
Instead of agreeing to broad aspirations, it would have been more worthwhile to use the goals to highlight specific, more achievable investments.
Likewise, as the ongoing struggles in countries like Syria and Iraq highlight, the use of force is not an effective problem-solving strategy.
So, if ECB President Mario Draghi wants to highlight the fact that nominal interest rates are lower today than last August, he must also acknowledge that, given low inflation expectations, real interest rates have moved little.
No matter how contrived, these political alliances are revealing: they highlight Russia's political decentralization from which there now appears to be no turning back.
Turkish authorities continue to highlight that earlier tripartite agreement with Iran.
Another advantage to this kind of analysis is that it can highlight future risks associated with longer-term trends like global population growth.
He will emphasize common strategic interests, highlight mutual economic benefits, generate positive public opinion, and promote further exchanges.
In Avatar, the core themes highlight everything that has gone wrong with Americans' view of themselves in relation to their country's foreign policy.
Given recent and ongoing conflicts in Syria, Iraq, Gaza, and South Sudan, which have devastated so many young lives, the Nobel committee had good cause to highlight children's suffering.
The Myitsone and Mekong episodes highlight China's suddenly edgy relations with its southern neighbors.
Since the beginning of this century, China's supercharged economic growth once again seemed to highlight the benefits of authoritarianism.
The Arab Spring was initially seen as a great opportunity for Turkey, an ideal setting in which to highlight the country's economic success, democratic political model, and indispensable strategic role in the region.
But global health emergencies like the current Ebola epidemic highlight the folly of these fiscal priorities.
The point, of course, is not simply to highlight how much danger the world currently faces.
For European bankers, and some governments, current efforts by the US to revise its approach to the operation of foreign bank subsidiaries within its territory highlight that imperative.
The threat that it does highlight is a less publicized one: the resurgence of discrimination and violence against Europe's Jews.
Rather, they highlight the radicals' desperation to influence a region where the overwhelming majority of Muslims aspire to integrate into, rather than challenge, the established order.
NEW DELHI - Asia's festering Cold War-era territorial and maritime disputes highlight the fact that securing long-term region-wide peace depends on respect for existing borders.
That mission's highlight was my dialogue with Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou, who stressed the importance of connecting Taiwan to the China-ASEAN Free Trade Area (CAFTA) in the light of warmer relations developing between the Mainland and Taiwan.
Of course, as efforts like Jin's highlight the flaws in existing structures, they may help to inspire reform.
Again, reporting such a messy story is a challenge; most Western news editors have preferred to highlight Iraq and Afghanistan.
Still others highlight the role that the political system played in inflating the banking sector and real-estate prices, particularly the sub-prime sector.

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