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hiliting

hiliting is the present participle and gerund of hilite.

hiliting is the informal spelling of highlighting.

Meaning of highlighting

Noun

highlighting (countable and uncountable, plural highlightings)

  1. The visual emphasis of text by means of a highlight.
  2. An area of the skin or hair containing highlights.

See all 3 meanings of highlighting

Forms of hiliting

pluralhilitings

Questions about hiliting

What is hiliting the present participle and gerund of?
Hiliting is the present participle and gerund of hilite.

Words near hiliting in the dictionary

  1. hilighting
  2. hilights
  3. hilite
  4. hilited
  5. hilites
  6. hiliting
  7. hilitings
  8. Hilișeu-Horia
  9. Hilker
  10. Hilkers
  11. hill

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hiliting (page history and authors); highlighting (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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