hilite

English

Pronunciation
  • Rhymes: -aɪt

Noun

hilite (plural hilites)

  1. Informal spelling of highlight.
    The hilite of the show. The hilite of my summer holiday.
    The command member("Cat").hilite=TRUE will set the hilite of member "Cat" to True.

Usage notes

In computing, especially for GUI objects and HTML scripting, the spelling "hilite" is more common due to often being natively used by objects and languages.

Verb

hilite (third-person singular simple present hilites, present participle hiliting, simple past and past participle hilited)

  1. Informal spelling of highlight.
    The Board also wish to hilite that the copy of the Sales & Purchase Agreeement is available for inspection.
    You can hilite the text with your mouse, then right-click to copy it.
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