Alternate vs Collateral - What's the difference?
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Being or succeeding by turns; one following the other in succession of time or place; by turns first one and then the other; hence, reciprocal.
(mathematics) Designating the members in a series, which regularly intervene between the members of another series, as the odd or even numbers of the numerals; every other; every second.
(US) Other; alternative.
(botany) Distributed, as leaves, singly at different heights of the stem, and at equal intervals as respects angular divergence.
That which alternates with something else; vicissitude.
* Matthew Prior
(US) A substitute; an alternative; one designated to take the place of another, if necessary, in performing some duty.
(mathematics) A proportion derived from another proportion by interchanging the means.
(US) A replacement of equal or greater value or function.
(heraldry) Figures or tinctures that succeed each other by turns.
To perform by turns, or in succession; to cause to succeed by turns; to interchange regularly.
* Grew
To happen, succeed, or act by turns; to follow reciprocally in place or time; followed by with .
To vary by turns.
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.
As adjectives the difference between alternate and collateral
is that alternate is being or succeeding by turns; one following the other in succession of time or place; by turns first one and then the other; hence, reciprocal while collateral is collateral.As a noun alternate
is that which alternates with something else; vicissitude.As a verb alternate
is to perform by turns, or in succession; to cause to succeed by turns; to interchange regularly.alternate
English
(Webster 1913)Adjective
(-)- And bid alternate passions fall and rise . -
- the alternate members 1, 3, 5, 7, etc.
- Hyperlinked text is displayed in alternate color in a Web browser.
- (Gray)
Noun
(en noun)- Grateful alternates of substantial.
Verb
(alternat)- The most high God, in all things appertaining unto this life, for sundry wise ends alternates the disposition of good and evil.
- The flood and ebb tides alternate with each other.
- ''The land alternates between rocky hills and sandy plains.
Derived terms
* alternate allegation * alternate angles * alternate generation * alternately * alternationSee also
* alternative * variantcollateral
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