verb (used with object),high·light·ed,high·light·ing.
to emphasize or make prominent: The lawsuit against the landlord highlighted the need for a stricter building code.
to mark with a felt-tip highlighter: I started highlighting the text (yellow for important ideas, blue for dates and facts), but I'm not sure it was productive in the long run.
to create highlights in (a photograph or engraving).
to dye (parts of the hair) lighter.
to apply makeup to (the face) in places where light would naturally hit, to create a glowing effect: After blending the foundation, highlight the cheekbones.
noun
Sometimes high light . an important, conspicuous, memorable, or enjoyable event, scene, part, or the like: the highlight of his talk;the highlight of the concert series.
the area of most intense light on a represented form, as in a painting or photograph.
Usually high·lights . a section of hair that has been dyed lighter.
Origin of highlight
An Americanism dating back to 1850–55; high + light1
I’m sure there are fans or media personnel who can’t wait to go back to covering Luka Dončić triple-doubles and James Harden highlights and all that.
What Happened In The NBA This Week?|Sara Ziegler (sara.ziegler@fivethirtyeight.com)|August 28, 2020|FiveThirtyEight
With the season having started at the start of August, those subscribers also get to watch 15-minute highlights of matches 24 hours after they’ve aired on broadcaster Sky Sports before they get to watch the full match a week after it has aired.
“It’s been a source of some much-needed income’: Sports clubs are building subscription businesses on Facebook|Seb Joseph|August 18, 2020|Digiday
We detailed our process for constructing those polling averages when we released them, so I’ll just review the highlights here.
How FiveThirtyEight’s 2020 Presidential Forecast Works — And What’s Different Because Of COVID-19|Nate Silver (nrsilver@fivethirtyeight.com)|August 12, 2020|FiveThirtyEight
To recreate the event feeling it streamed old FA Cup games from the 1990s and 2000s once a week, supplemented with several recaps and story-focused highlights of specific players or teams.
‘The audience is still there’: How U.K. sports outlets pivoted to branded content, social video to keep fans engaged as seasons were delayed|Lucinda Southern|July 29, 2020|Digiday
Read on for highlights of what we learned from each of our panelists.
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Their confrontation at dinner was, without a doubt, the highlight of the episode.
‘Downton Abbey’ Review: A Fire, Some Sex, and Sad, Sad Edith|Kevin Fallon|January 5, 2015|DAILY BEAST
He is my favorite Woodstock artist, the highlight of the entire festival.
The Greatest Rock Voice of All Time Belonged to Joe Cocker|Ted Gioia|December 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Art is something that has been a highlight at The Center since its first group show—“The Center Show”—in 1989.
The LGBT Center That Changed Our Lives|Justin Jones|December 22, 2014|DAILY BEAST
It can be really good if somebody is an amazing talent right off the bat or it can highlight your flaws.
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The documents also highlight the apparent complicity by secular law enforcement in keeping some of these offenders out of jail.
How Sicko Priests Got Away With It|Barbie Latza Nadeau|November 16, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Yes; I mentioned that the highlight along the top from the butt to the bolt is generally similar in that it is in a straight line.
Warren Commission (7 of 26): Hearings Vol. VII (of 15)|The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy
They were matters which the Chief Inspector did not highlight; evidently he did not regard them as of major importance.
Judgments of the Court of Appeal of New Zealand on Proceedings to Review Aspects of the Report of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Mount Erebus Aircraft Disaster|Sir Owen Woodhouse, R. B. Cooke, Ivor L. M. Richardson, Duncan Wallace McMullin, and Sir Edward Somers
The weapon has been retouched by placing a highlight along the stock almost up to the end of the bolt.
Warren Commission (4 of 26): Hearings Vol. IV (of 15)|The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy
There is detail present that shows other areas of the gun, the breech, above the highlight.
Warren Commission (7 of 26): Hearings Vol. VII (of 15)|The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy
There has been a highlight added along the bottom of the gun just forward of the trigger guard and just below Oswald's left hand.
Warren Commission (7 of 26): Hearings Vol. VII (of 15)|The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy
British Dictionary definitions for highlight
highlight
/ (ˈhaɪˌlaɪt) /
noun
an area of the lightest tone in a painting, drawing, photograph, etc
the most exciting or memorable part of an event or period of time
(often plural)a bleached blond streak in the hair
verb(tr)
paintingdrawingphotogto mark (any brightly illuminated or prominent part of a form or figure) with light tone
to bring notice or emphasis to
to be the highlight of
to produce blond streaks in (the hair) by bleaching