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Highlight   /hˈaɪlˌaɪt/   Listen
verb
highlight  v. t.  
1.
To emphasize or call attention to, by moving into the foreground or otherwise making more prominent.
Synonyms: foreground, spotlight, play up.
2.
To make (part of a text or image) more prominent, especially by making it of a lighter hue or of a different color than the remaining part.


noun
highlight  n.  
1.
The part of an image that has the most intense light.
2.
The most memorable or enjoyable part; of events or activities; as, the highlight of our trip was the tour of the Vatican.





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... punctuation and spelling and the use of italics and capital letters to highlight words and phrases have, for the most part, been retained. I think they help maintain the "feel" of the book, which was published nearly 200 years ago. Flinders notes in the preface that "I heard it declared that a man who published a quarto volume without an index ought to be set ...
— A Voyage to Terra Australis • Matthew Flinders


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