Highlight

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Highlight (and highlights, highlighting, hilite, etc.) may refer to:

• In art (including photography, painting, drawing, and digital compositions), any of the brightest parts of a subject, in contrast to shadow
• An especially significant or interesting detail or occurrence of something larger (e.g. highlights of a football game or the highlight of a dramatic role)
• In computing, to select on-screen information as for a cut, copy and paste
• Specular highlight, a spot of light that appears on shiny objects when illuminated by a direct light source

• Hair highlighting, lightening and/or coloring part of someone's hair
• Syntax highlighting, display of text in different colors and/or fonts, depending upon its meaning in context (e.g. different parts of speech in a sentence, or function vs. variables names in computer source code)

• To use a highlighter, a marker pen that adds translucent color to paper, to emphasize particular parts of the text

• Highlights (band), a Swedish dansband
• Highlights (album), album by Tom Hingley and the Lovers
• Highlights for Children a.k.a. Highlights: Fun with a Purpose, a US-published children's magazine
• Highlights, a public page on the Russian social networking site VKontakte
• Highlight (application), a social networking application

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