Highlight vs Flaunt - What's the difference?
highlight | flaunt |
An area or a spot in a drawing, painting, or photograph that is strongly illuminated.
An especially significant or interesting detail or event.
(cosmetology) A strand or spot of hair dyed a different color than the rest.
To make prominent; emphasize.
* {{quote-news
, year=2011
, date=December 21
, author=Helen Pidd
, title=Europeans migrate south as continent drifts deeper into crisis
, work=the Guardian
To be a highlight of.
To mark (important passages of text) with a usually fluorescent marker as a means of memory retention or for later reference.
To dye (part of the hair) a different color than the rest.
(obsolete) To wave or flutter smartly in the wind.
To parade, display with ostentation.
(intransitive, archaic, or, literary) To show off, as with flashy clothing.
* Arbuthnot
* Alexander Pope
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In transitive terms the difference between highlight and flaunt
is that highlight is to dye (part of the hair) a different color than the rest while flaunt is to parade, display with ostentation.As a noun highlight
is an area or a spot in a drawing, painting, or photograph that is strongly illuminated.highlight
English
Alternative forms
* hilite (informal)Noun
(en noun)Antonyms
* (especially significant or interesting detail or event) lowlightVerb
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flaunt
English
Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)Verb
(en verb)- She's always flaunting her designer clothes.
- You flaunt about the streets in your new gilt chariot.
- One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade.
- [T]he younger belles had begun to flaunt in the French fashions of flimsy muslins, shortwaisted— narrow-skirted.
- … and Mrs. Wix seemed to flaunt there in her finery.
