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Collateral is a related term of akin.


As adjectives the difference between collateral and akin

is that collateral is collateral while akin is (of persons) of the same kin; related by blood.

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

    akin

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (of persons) Of the same kin; related by blood.
  • * 1722 , , Moll Flanders , ch. 23:
    • We are too near akin to lie together, though we may lodge near one another.
  • (often, followed by to) Allied by nature; similar; partaking of the same properties; of the same kind.
  • * 1677 , , The Court of the Gentiles , T. Cockeril, part 4, bk. 1, ch. 2, p. 27:
    • Is not then Fruition near akin to Love?
  • * 1710 , anon., "To the Spectator, &c.," The Spectator , vol. 1, no. 8 (March 9), p. 39:
    • She told me that she hoped my Face was not akin to my Tongue.
  • * 1814 , , Mansfield Park , ch. 44:
    • Such sensations, however, were too near akin to resentment to be long guiding Fanny's soliloquies.
  • * 1837 , , The Pickwick Papers , ch. 39:
    • Mr. Winkle . . . took his hand with a feeling of regard, akin to veneration.
  • * 1910 , , "Old Well-Well," Success (July):
    • Something akin to a smile shone on his face.

    Usage notes

    * This adjective is always placed after the noun that it modifies.

    Anagrams

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