Definition of Highlighter

1. Noun. A cosmetic used to highlight the eyes or cheekbones.

Generic synonyms: Cosmetic
Derivative terms: Highlight, Highlight

2. Noun. A fluorescent marker used to mark important passages in a text.
Generic synonyms: Marker
Derivative terms: Highlight

Definition of Highlighter

1. Noun. A marker pen used to highlight text. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Highlighter

highjacks
highland
highland(a)
highland dance
highland fling
highland tinamou
highland tinamous
highlanders
highlandman
highlandmen
highlife
highlifes
highlight
highlightable
highlighted
highlighter (current term)
highlighters
highlighting
highlightings
highlights
highlining
highlit
highlite
highlited
highliter
highlites
highliting
highly
highly-developed

Literary usage of Highlighter

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Making the Most of Small Groups: Differentiation for All by Debbie Diller (2007)
"Precut several pieces of highlighter tape the length of individual new words. ... Place highlighter tape over each new word. Tell children they should stop ..."

2. Literacy Work Stations: Making Centers Workby Debbie Diller by Debbie Diller (2003)
"How to use highlighter tape. Introduce highlighter tape during shared reading. ... Be sure to show students how to remove the highlighter tape from the Big ..."

3. Do I Really Have to Teach Reading?: Content Comprehension, Grades 6-12by Cris Tovani by Cris Tovani (2004)
"Give students a yellow highlighter to mark places that are confusing, ... Use any color highlighter to emphasize the reader's purpose in the text. ..."

4. Still Learning to Read: Teaching Students in Grades 3-6 by Franki Sibberson, Karen Szymusiak (2003)
"41) and give each of the students a green and a yellow highlighter. We tell them to use the green highlighter when they learn something new and to use the ..."

5. Read It Again!: Revisiting Shared Reading by Brenda Parkes (2000)
"Other essential tools include the following: • colored translucent highlighter ... with the view of the print highlighter Tape See-through highlighter tape ..."

6. Deeper Reading: Comprehending Challenging Texts, 4-12 by Kelly Gallagher (2004)
"They use the yellow highlighter for words, phrases, sentences, or entire passages they understand; they use the pink highlighter for everything they do not ..."

7. Nonfiction Matters: Reading, Writing, and Research in Grades 3-8 by Stephanie Harvey (1998)
"Apparently I'm not the only mad highlighter out there. So how do we help kids determine what's important in their nonfiction reading without creating ..."

8. I Read It, But I Don't Get It: Comprehension Strategies for Adolescent Readers by Cris Tovani (2000)
"Ask students to read the piece again and this time use a pink highlighter to mark places in the text a robber would find important. ..."

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