highlight é highlight, emphasize, accentuate, protrude. It is understood by emphasizing the property of making it stand out or give importance. The opposite of highlighting is hiding, hiding.
Highlight is a direct transitive verb that means to highlight, distinguish, highlight. It's a way of giving importance to making it stand out.
In order to highlight some words or phrases in the formatting of a text, some resources are used, such as, the bold, "the quotes", the italics, the underline, etc., which will draw attention to these words.
When sending correspondence, a document, a package, etc., it is customary to highlight the name of the recipient, with the abbreviation of the word attention (Att.). written before the recipient's name.
The acronym CMYK refers to a color system, widely used in the graphic industry, for printing in color, with ink, with the aim to hide some colors when the background is white, to decrease the brightness and emphasize the combination of the four colors of the base.