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COLLATERAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does collateral mean? 

COLLATERAL (noun)
  The noun COLLATERAL has 1 sense:

1. a security pledged for the repayment of a loanplay

  Familiarity information: COLLATERAL used as a noun is very rare.


COLLATERAL (adjective)
  The adjective COLLATERAL has 5 senses:

1. descended from a common ancestor but through different linesplay

2. serving to support or corroborateplay

3. additional but secondary; auxiliaryplay

4. situated or running side by sideplay

5. occurring with or following as a consequenceplay

  Familiarity information: COLLATERAL used as an adjective is common.


 Dictionary entry details 


COLLATERAL (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A security pledged for the repayment of a loan

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Hypernyms ("collateral" is a kind of...):

security interest (any interest in a property that secures the payment of an obligation)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "collateral"):

guarantee; guaranty (a collateral agreement to answer for the debt of another in case that person defaults)

Derivation:

collateral (serving to support or corroborate)


COLLATERAL (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Descended from a common ancestor but through different lines

Synonyms:

collateral; indirect

Context example:

an indirect descendant of the Stuarts

Also:

related (connected by kinship, common origin, or marriage)

Antonym:

lineal (in a straight unbroken line of descent from parent to child)


Sense 2

Meaning:

Serving to support or corroborate

Synonyms:

collateral; confirmative; confirmatory; confirming; corroborative; corroboratory; substantiating; substantiative; validating; validatory; verificatory; verifying

Context example:

collateral evidence

Similar:

supportive (furnishing support or assistance)

Derivation:

collateral (a security pledged for the repayment of a loan)


Sense 3

Meaning:

Additional but secondary; auxiliary

Similar:

secondary (being of second rank or importance or value; not direct or immediate)


Sense 4

Meaning:

Situated or running side by side

Context example:

collateral ridges of mountains

Similar:

parallel (being everywhere equidistant and not intersecting)


Sense 5

Meaning:

Occurring with or following as a consequence

Synonyms:

accompanying; attendant; collateral; concomitant; consequent; ensuant; incidental; resultant; sequent

Context example:

collateral target damage from a bombing run

Similar:

subsequent (following in time or order)


 Context examples 


A rare inherited vascular disorder characterized by constriction of arteries at the base of the brain, resulting in the formation of collateral circulation in order to compensate for the constriction.

(Moyamoya Disease, NCI Thesaurus)

Either of three arteries (posterior or dorsal branch, collateral intercostal and spinal) that branch off of the intercostal artery.

(Intercostal Artery Branch, NCI Thesaurus)

In addition, the HL-60/MX2 cells display slight collateral sensitivity to bleomycin.

(HL-60/MX2, NCI Thesaurus)

I had ninety pounds a year (exclusive of my house-rent and sundry collateral matters) from my aunt.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The convolutions or ridges on either side of the collateral sulcus.

(Collateral Gyrus, NCI Thesaurus)

A typical neuron consists of a cell body, containing the nucleus and the surrounding cytoplasm (perikaryon); several short radiating processes (dendrites); and one long process (the axon), which terminates in twiglike branches (telodendrons) and may have branches (collaterals) projecting along its course.

(Murine Neurons, NCI Thesaurus)

Diffuse (length greater than 2cm) or excessive tortuosity of proximal segment or extremely angulated segments greater than 90 degrees or total occlusions greater than 3 months old and/or bridging collaterals or inability to protect major side branches or degenerated vein grafts with friable lesions.

(American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Lesion Complexity Score C, NCI Thesaurus/ACC)

The name "moyamoya" in Japanese means "puff of smoke" and derives from the characteristic radiographic appearance of the collateral vessels.

(Moyamoya Disease, NCI Thesaurus)



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