Word Meanings - COLLATERAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Descending from the same stock or ancestor, but not in the same line or branch or one from the other; -- opposed to lineal. Note: Lineal descendants proceed one from another in a direct line; collateral relations spring from a common ancestor, but

Additional info about word: COLLATERAL

Descending from the same stock or ancestor, but not in the same line or branch or one from the other; -- opposed to lineal. Note: Lineal descendants proceed one from another in a direct line; collateral relations spring from a common ancestor, but from different branches of that common stirps or stock. Thus the children of brothers are collateral relations, having different fathers, but a common grandfather. Blackstone. Collateral assurance, that which is made, over and above the deed itself. -- Collateral circulation , circulation established through indirect or subordinate branches when the supply through the main vessel is obstructed. -- Collateral issue. An issue taken upon a matter aside from the merits of the case. An issue raised by a criminal convict who pleads any matter allowed by law in bar of execution, as pardon, diversity of person, etc. A point raised, on cross- examination, aside from the issue fixed by the pleadings, as to which the answer of the witness, when given, cannot subsequently be contradicted by the party asking the question. -- Collateral security, security for the performance of covenants, or the payment of money, besides the principal security, (more info) 1. Coming from, being on, or directed toward, the side; as, collateral pressure. "Collateral light." Shak. 2. Acting in an indirect way. If by direct or by collateral hand They find us touched, we will our kingdom give . . . To you in satisfaction. Shak. 3. Related to, but not strictly a part of, the main thing or matter under consideration; hence, subordinate; not chief or principal; as, collateral interest; collateral issues. That he was altogether in the wrong on the main question, and on all the collateral questions springing out of it, . . . is true. Macaulay. 4. Tending toward the same conclusion or result as something else; additional; as, collateral evidence. Yet the attempt may give Collateral interest to this homely tale. Wordsworth.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of COLLATERAL)

• Lateral
• Indirect
• oblique
• secondary
• resultant
• collateral
• deviative
• additive
• parallel
• adjunctive
• incidental

Related words: (words related to COLLATERAL)

• ADDITIVE
  Proper to be added; positive; -- opposed to subtractive.
• LATERAL
  Lying at, or extending toward, the side; away from the mesial plane; external; -- opposed to mesial. 3. Directed to the side; as, a lateral view of a thing. Lateral cleavage , cleavage parallel to the lateral planes. -- Lateral equation
• OBLIQUENESS
  Quality or state of being oblique.
• LATERALLY
  By the side; sidewise; toward, or from, the side.
• ADJUNCTIVELY
  In an adjunctive manner.
• ADJUNCTIVE
  Joining; having the quality of joining; forming an adjunct.
• PARALLELOGRAMMIC; PARALLELOGRAMMICAL
  Having the properties of a parallelogram.
• PARALLEL SULCUS
  A sulcus parallel to, but some distance below, the horizontal limb of the fissure of Sylvius.
• COLLATERALLY
  1. Side by side; by the side. These pulleys . . . placed collaterally. Bp. Wilkins. 2. In an indirect or subordinate manner; indirectly. The will hath force upon the conscience collaterally and indirectly. Jer. Taylor. 3. In collateral relation;
• PARALLELIZE
  To render parallel.
• PARALLELABLE
  Capable of being paralleled, or equaled. Bp. Hall.
• INDIRECTNESS
  1. The quality or state of being indirect; obliquity; deviousness; crookedness. 2. Deviation from an upright or straightforward course; unfairness; dishonesty. W. Montagu.
• INDIRECTION
  Oblique course or means; dishonest practices; indirectness. "By indirections find directions out." Shak.
• LATERALITY
  The state or condition of being lateral.
• PARALLELISTIC
  Of the nature of a parallelism; involving parallelism. The antithetic or parallelistic form of Hebrew poetry is entirely lost. Milman.
• PARALLEL STANDARDS
  Two or more metals coined without any attempt by the government to regulate their values.
• PARALLEL TRANSFORMER
  A transformer connected in parallel.
• OBLIQUE-ANGLED
  Having oblique angles; as, an oblique-angled triangle.
• PARALLELLY
  In a parallel manner; with parallelism. Dr. H. More.
• PARALLELOGRAM
  A right-lined quadrilateral figure, whose opposite sides are parallel, and consequently equal; -- sometimes restricted in popular usage to a rectangle, or quadrilateral figure which is longer than it is broad, and with right angles. Parallelogram
• PLANE-PARALLEL
  Having opposite surfaces exactly plane and parallel, as a piece of glass.
• ANTIPARALLEL
  Running in a contrary direction. Hammond.
• IMPARALLELED
  Unparalleled.
• QUADRILATERAL
  Having four sides, and consequently four angles; quadrangular.
• EQUILATERAL
  Having all the sides equal; as, an equilateral triangle; an equilateral polygon. Equilateral hyperbola , one whose axes are equal. -- Equilateral shell , one in which a transverse line drawn through the apex of the umbo bisects the valve,