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Collateral vs Byproduct - What's the difference?

collateral | byproduct |

As an adjective collateral

is collateral.

As a noun byproduct is

a secondary or additional product; something produced, as in the course of a manufacture, in addition to the principal product.

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

    byproduct

    English

    (by-product)

    Alternative forms

    * by-product

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A secondary or additional product; something produced, as in the course of a manufacture, in addition to the principal product.