collateral vs direct

collateral

adj
  • Relating to a collateral in the sense of an obligation or security. 

  • Expensive to the extent of being paid through a loan. 

  • Of an indirect ancestral relationship, as opposed to lineal descendency. 

  • Acting in an indirect way. 

  • Parallel, along the same vein, side by side. 

  • Being aside from the main subject, target, or goal. 

  • Corresponding; accompanying, concomitant. 

  • Having the phloem and xylem adjacent. 

  • Coming or directed along the side. 

noun
  • Printed materials or content of electronic media used to enhance sales of products (short form of collateral material). 

  • A security or guarantee (usually an asset) pledged for the repayment of a loan if one cannot procure enough funds to repay. 

  • A thinner blood vessel providing an alternate route to blood flow in case the main vessel becomes occluded. 

  • A branch of a bodily part or system of organs. 

direct

adj
  • In the line of descent; not collateral. 

  • having a single flight number. 

  • Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end. 

  • Pertaining to, or effected immediately by, action of the people through their votes instead of through one or more representatives or delegates. 

  • Immediate; express; plain; unambiguous. 

  • Proceeding without deviation or interruption. 

  • Straightforward; sincere. 

  • 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. 

adv
  • Directly. 

verb
  • To manage, control, steer. 

  • To aim (something) at (something else). 

  • To point out to or show (somebody) the right course or way; to guide, as by pointing out the way. 

  • To point out to with authority; to instruct as a superior; to order. 

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