1. Move into the foreground to make more visible or prominent
   "The introduction highlighted the speaker's distinguished career in linguistics"
   - foreground, spotlight, play up 
2. Apply a highlighter to one's cheeks or eyebrows in order to make them more prominent
   "highlight the area above your eyebrows"

1. The most interesting or memorable part
   "the highlight of the tour was our visit to the Vatican"
   - high spot 
2. An area of lightness in a picture
   - highlighting 
3. A light coloured streak in hair made by dyeing or bleaching

Derived forms: highlighted, highlighting, highlights

See also: highlighter

Type of: bring out, detail, item, light, lightness, make up, particular, set off

Encyclopedia: Highlight

• piece of cake
• piece of cloth
• piece of eight
• piece of furniture
• piece of ground
• piece of land
• piece of leather
• piece of material
• piece of music
• piece of paper
• piece of piss
• piece of tail
• piece of work
• piece of writing
• piece-dye
• piecemeal
• piecewise
• piecework
• pieceworker
• pied
• pied lemming
• Pied Piper
• Pied Piper of Hamelin
• pied-billed grebe
• pied-à-terre