highlight
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: arts
cosmetics
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *kewk-
Proto-Indo-European *kówk-o-s
Proto-Germanic *hauhaz
Proto-West Germanic *hauh
Old English hēah
Middle English heigh
English high
Proto-Indo-European *lewk-der.
Proto-Germanic *leuhtaz
Proto-West Germanic *leuht
Old English lēoht
Middle English light
English light
English highlight
From high + light.
Inflected forms:
form: highlights
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hilite
pos: noun
tags: alternative
informal
form: highlights
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: highlighting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: highlighted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: highlighted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: highlit
pos: verb
tags: nonstandard
participle
past
form: highlit
pos: verb
tags: nonstandard
past
form: hilite
pos: verb
tags: alternative
informal
Senses:
gloss: An area or a spot in a drawing, painting, or photograph that is strongly illuminated.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: An especially significant or interesting detail or event or period of time.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: Meeting my future wife was the highlight of my trip to Spain.
We'll be broadcasting the news highlights every half an hour.
gloss: A strand or spot of hair dyed a different color than the rest.
pos: noun
gloss: To make prominent; emphasize.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
In a Commons Written Reply to Shadow Rail Minister Tan Dhesi, regarding any assessment of the impact on open access operators by the decision to move away from franchising […], Heaton-Harris highlighted that non-franchised operators run trains without a contractual relationship with Government.
Former United Nations ambassador and current GOP presidential hopeful Nikki Haley slammed fellow Republicans former President Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis Monday in a campaign letter highlighting Haley’s first quarter accomplishments.
gloss: To be a highlight of.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: 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.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To dye (part of the hair) a different color than the rest.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: 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.
pos: verb
tags: Internet
transitive
examples: You could have asked: is there a reason this easy patch was not applied, either on IRC or private mail by me. You did write a comment on IRC and I did see it. Problem is that you did not highlight me _and_ you did not wait for an answer.
You must be somewhere completely different. I’ve looked for several days and don’t see you. But: I’m kind of blind from time to time - please feel free to highlight me ([Sno]) or probably (H. Merijn Brand) Tux or vanHoesel (Theo van Hoesel).
Related words: midlight
Derived words: dehighlight
highlightable
highlighter
sunlights
unhighlight
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