Concept in Definition ABC
Miscellanea / / July 04, 2021
By Florencia Ucha, in Sep. 2011
The word highlight It boasts two well-extended uses, on the one hand, distinguish or stand out a lot one thing from another.
“Her modesty stands out from her colleagues who happen to be a bit vain indeed..”
Distinguish one thing from another, or stand out one thing among several
On the other hand, highlighting implies stand out one thing among others. The vintage clock is the highlight of the showroom.
The uniqueness, the originality, the little repetition, its practically no comparison with another pair, the unusual, are some of the conditions that normally make one thing stand out over another or others.
There are things or people that stand out physically, because they are beautiful, perfect, or on the contrary, because they are really horrible and this means that they cannot be ignored.
And on the other hand, people stand out among others for their intellectual capacities or for the amount they demonstrate against some activity.
Thus a model will stand out for his measurements and his beauty, while a writer will stand out for the analyzes that he addresses in his books.
On the other hand, we can find cases of people who do not stand out in anything but who in order to do so are capable of causing scandals or causing unusual situations to stand out.
Meanwhile, the word highlight is usually linked to concepts that express approximately the same thing, such is the case of: to stand out, to stand out, to stand out, to shine, to stand out, to enhance, to distinguish. Instead, the term highlight is directly opposed to concepts such as those of equalize, confuse, because nothing, nor anyone that is worth highlighting can be equated with something else or another individual.
For example, an award received by an individual, as a result of the outstanding activity that he performs within the framework of his profession is a reason to stand out.
Highlight with a pen a passage from a written text or work
And on the other hand, the word highlight is often used frequently in the language current when it comes to highlighting that important part, impossible to avoid or ignore, within some text, work, among other options. Generally, the highlighting is done through a marker or pen indelible that facilitates the footprint and that makes that highlight not easily disappear.
Students often make frequent use of the practice of highlighting texts or books indicated by their teachers in the various subjects they study in college or university.
Highlighting with a marker, pencil or whatever, the most salient lines or concepts of a text helps a lot to student at the time of retaining the concepts that are poured into it.
The action is also relevant because later, when the reading From the text it will not be necessary to read everything but you will be able to emphasize especially those that are highlighted as very important to know.
Now, we must say that books are not marked with indelible pens because that would ruin them aesthetically, in these cases what What can be done is to underline the important parts with a pencil and a ruler, because this way you can erase later if you do I'd like.
Meanwhile, the photocopies that are made of a text can be marked with these pens because it is not difficult to mark them, since they are simply copies of an original.
What we highlight from a book or photocopies of a text, which as we said will be the most important thing to know about it, usually gives way to the elaboration of summaries that will help the student a lot when studying the subject.
You can make cards with those highlighted questions and so on. learn faster topics.