Direct vs Collateral - What's the difference?
direct | collateral |
Straight, constant, without interruption.
Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end.
Straightforward; sincere.
* Shakespeare
Immediate; express; plain; unambiguous.
* John Locke
* Hallam
In the line of descent; not collateral.
(astronomy) In the direction of the general planetary motion, or from west to east; in the order of the signs; not retrograde; said of the motion of a celestial body.
Directly.
* 2009 , Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall , Fourth Estate 2010, p. 346:
To manage, control, steer.
To aim (something) at (something else).
To point out or show to (somebody) the right course or way; to guide, as by pointing out the way.
* Lubbock
To point out to with authority; to instruct as a superior; to order.
* Shakespeare
(dated) To put a direction or address upon; to mark with the name and residence of the person to whom anything is sent.
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 direct and collateral
is that direct is straight, constant, without interruption while collateral is collateral.As an adverb direct
is directly.As a verb direct
is to manage, control, steer.direct
English
Adjective
(er)- the most direct route between two buildings
- Be even and direct with me.
- He nowhere, that I know, says it in direct words.
- a direct and avowed interference with elections
- a descendant in the direct line
Antonyms
* indirectDerived terms
* direct action * direct current * direct flight * direct initiative * direct object * direct quoteAdverb
(en adverb)- Presumably Mary is to carry messages that she, Anne, is too delicate to convey direct .
Verb
(en verb)- to direct the affairs of a nation or the movements of an army
- They directed their fire towards the men on the wall.
- He directed his question to the room in general.
- He directed me to the left-hand road.
- the next points to which I will direct your attention
- She directed them to leave immediately.
- I'll first direct my men what they shall do.
- to direct a letter
Anagrams
* * ----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
