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Spotlight

verb

(past spotlit; past part. spotlit or spotlighted)

Move into the foreground to make more visible or prominent. Synonyms: foreground, highlight, play up.

Illuminate with a spotlight, as in the theater.

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Etymology of 'Spotlight'

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"Spotlight" Quotes from Famous Books

... over-fond but equally over-foolish mothers. It is only necessary to bring to mind the most irritating and objectionable child one knows, and the chances are that its mother continually throws the spotlight on it by talking to it, and about it, and by calling attention to its looks or its cunning ways or ...

— Etiquette • Emily Post

... distinguished from the stage. On the stage we have the footlights in red, white and blue, a row of each, and overhead are the border lights in the same three colors. There is the first border, second, third—sometimes even seven border lights, according to the size of the theatre stage. The spotlight is an arc light. It has usually a color wheel that revolves so that either red, blue, straw, light straw, or pink or any other color may be projected onto the "spot" on the stage that it is to illuminate and emphasize. There are ...

— The Art of Stage Dancing - The Story of a Beautiful and Profitable Profession • Ned Wayburn

... her—and no doubt they will be—they can get anything they want from her in the way of an agreement as to the property. Looks to me like the fine Italian hand of Cousin James. We know Jack wasn't the man. He was busy at Golden right then. Kinda leaves James in the spotlight, doesn't it?" ...

— Tangled Trails - A Western Detective Story • William MacLeod Raine

... enter and showing the narrow ledge around the pit with the spotlight, he followed. Then he turned to the guards ...

— Plotting in Pirate Seas • Francis Rolt-Wheeler

Words linked to "Spotlight" : bring out, play down, set off, prominence, background, theater light, lamp, light up, light, illumine, illume, illuminate