Comparative vs Collateral - What's the difference?
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Of or relating to comparison.
* Granvill
Using comparison as a method of study, or founded on something using it.
Approximated by comparison; relative.
* Whewell
* Bentley
(obsolete) Comparable; bearing comparison.
* 1819 , Lord Byron, Don Juan , II.137:
(grammar) A construction showing a relative quality, in English usually formed by adding more'' or appending ''-er''. For example, the comparative of ''green'' is ''greener''; of ''evil'', ''more evil .
(grammar) A word in the comparative form.
(obsolete) An equal; a rival; a compeer.
* Beaumont and Fletcher
(obsolete) One who makes comparisons; one who affects wit.
* .67:
parallel, along the same vein, side by side.
Corresponding; accompanying, concomitant.
* Wordsworth
Being aside from the main subject; tangential, subordinate, ancillary.
* Macaulay
(family ) of an indirect ancestral relationship, as opposed to lineal descendency.
* 1885 , , The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night , volume 5,
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.
* Shakespeare
Acting in an indirect way.
* Shakespeare
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
(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.
Comparative is a related term of collateral.
As adjectives the difference between comparative and collateral
is that comparative is of or relating to comparison while collateral is collateral.As a noun comparative
is (grammar) a construction showing a relative quality, in english usually formed by adding more'' or appending ''-er'' for example, the comparative of ''green'' is ''greener''; of ''evil'', ''more evil .comparative
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The comparative faculty.
- comparative anatomy
- The recurrence of comparative warmth and cold.
- The bubble, by reason of its comparative levity to the fluid that encloses it, would necessarily ascend to the top.
- And need he had of slumber yet, for none / Had suffered more—his hardships were comparative / To those related in my grand-dad's Narrative .
Derived terms
* comparatively * * comparativeness * comparativism * comparativist * comparativisticNoun
(wikipedia comparative) (en noun)- Gerard ever was / His full comparative .
- Every beardless vain comparative .
See also
* contrastiveReferences
* * * ----collateral
English
Adjective
(-)- Yet the attempt may give / Collateral interest to this homely tale.
- Although not a direct cause, the border skirmish was certainly a collateral incitement for the war.
- That he [Atterbury] was altogether in the wrong on the main question, and on all the collateral questions springing out of it, is true.
- ''Uncles, aunts, cousins, nephews and nieces are collateral relatives.
- The pure blood all descends from five collateral lines called Al-Khamsah (the Cinque).
- collateral pressure
- collateral light
- 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 securityNoun
(wikipedia collateral) (en noun)- ''Besides the arteries blood streams through numerous veins we call collaterals