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Collateral vs Secondary - What's the difference?

collateral | secondary |

As adjectives the difference between collateral and secondary

is that collateral is collateral while secondary is succeeding next in order to the first; of second place, origin, rank, rank, etc; not primary; subordinate; not of the first order or rate.

As a noun secondary is

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collateral

English

Adjective

(-)
  • parallel, along the same vein, side by side.
  • Corresponding; accompanying, concomitant.
  • * Wordsworth
    • Yet the attempt may give / Collateral interest to this homely tale.
  • Being aside from the main subject; tangential, subordinate, ancillary.
    • Although not a direct cause, the border skirmish was certainly a collateral incitement for the war.
  • * Macaulay
    • That he [Atterbury] was altogether in the wrong on the main question, and on all the collateral questions springing out of it, is true.
  • (family ) of an indirect ancestral relationship, as opposed to lineal descendency.
    • ''Uncles, aunts, cousins, nephews and nieces are collateral relatives.
  • * 1885 , , The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night , volume 5,
    • The pure blood all descends from five collateral lines called Al-Khamsah (the Cinque).
  • relating to a collateral in the sense of an obligation or security
  • expensive to the extent of being paid through a loan
  • Coming or directed along the side.
    • collateral pressure
  • * Shakespeare
    • collateral light
  • Acting in an indirect way.
  • * Shakespeare
    • If by direct or by collateral hand / They find us touched, we will our kingdom give / To you in satisfaction.

    Derived terms

    * collaterality * collaterally * collateral damage * collateral form * collateral material * collateral security

    Related terms

    * lateral

    Noun

    (wikipedia collateral) (en noun)
  • A security or guarantee (usually an asset) pledged for the repayment of a loan if one cannot procure enough funds to repay. (Originally supplied as "accompanying" security.)
  • A collateral (not linear) family member.
  • A branch of a bodily part or system of organs
    • ''Besides the arteries blood streams through numerous veins we call collaterals
  • (marketing) printed materials or content of electronic media used to enhance sales of products (short form of collateral material)
  • A thinner blood vessel providing an alternate route to blood flow in case the main vessel gets occluded.

    • Derived terms

    * marketing collateral

    Related terms

    * lateral

    See also

    * mortgage

    secondary

    English

    (wikipedia secondary)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Succeeding next in order to the first; of second place, origin, rank, rank, etc.; not primary; subordinate; not of the first order or rate.
  • Acting by deputation or delegated authority; as, the work of secondary hands.
  • Possessing some quality, or having been subject to some operation (as substitution), in the second degree; as, a secondary salt, a secondary amine, etc. Compare primary.
  • (geology) Subsequent in origin; -- said of minerals produced by alteration or deposition subsequent to the formation of the original rocks mass; also of characters of minerals (as secondary cleavage, etc.) developed by pressure or other causes.
  • (zootomy) Pertaining to the second joint of the wing of a bird.
  • (medicine) Dependent or consequent upon another disease; as, Bright's disease is often secondary to scarlet fever; or occurring in the second stage of a disease; as, the secondary symptoms of syphilis.
  • Of less than primary importance.
  • *
  • (of a color) Formed by mixing primary colors.
    • Yellow is a secondary light color, though a primary CMYK color.

    Coordinate terms

    (terms coordinate to secondary) * primary (1) * tertiary (3) * quaternary (4) * quinary (5) * senary (6) * septenary (7) * octonary (8) * nonary (9) * denary (10) * duodenary (12) * vigenary (20)

    Noun

    (secondaries)
  • (ornithology) Any flight feather attached to the ulna (forearm) of a bird.
  • (finance) An act of issuing more stock by an already publicly traded corporation.
  • (American football, Canadian football) The defensive backs.
  • (electronics) An inductive coil or loop that is magnetically powered by a primary in a transformer or similar
  • One who occupies a subordinate or auxiliary place; a delegate deputy.
    • the secondary , or undersheriff, of the city of London
  • * Shakespeare
    • Old Escalus is thy secondary .
  • (astronomy) A secondary circle.
  • (astronomy) A satellite.
    • (Webster 1913)