different between collateral vs twin

English

Etymology

Recorded since c.1378, from Old French, from Medieval Latin collater?lis, from Latin col- (“together with”) (a form of con-) + the stem of latus (“side”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??læt???l/
• Rhymes: -æt???l

Adjective

collateral (not comparable)

1. Parallel, along the same vein, side by side.
2. Corresponding; accompanying, concomitant.
   • 1814, William Wordsworth, The Excursion

     Yet the attempt may give
     Collateral interest to this homely tale.

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

   Synonyms: tangential, subordinate, ancillary
4. (genealogy) Of an indirect ancestral relationship, as opposed to lineal descendency.
5. (finance) Relating to a collateral in the sense of an obligation or security.
6. (finance) Expensive to the extent of being paid through a loan.
7. Coming or directed along the side.

8. Acting in an indirect way.
9. (biology, of a vascular bundle) Having the phloem and xylem adjacent.

Derived terms

Related terms

• lateral

Translations

Noun

collateral (countable and uncountable, plural collaterals)

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

   Synonym: pledge
2. (now rare, genealogy) A collateral (not linear) family member.
3. (anatomy) A branch of a bodily part or system of organs.

4. (marketing) Printed materials or content of electronic media used to enhance sales of products (short form of collateral material).
5. (anatomy) A thinner blood vessel providing an alternate route to blood flow in case the main vessel becomes occluded.
6. (archaic) A contemporary or rival.

Derived terms

• marketing collateral

Related terms

• lateral

Translations

See also

• mortgage

Further reading

• collateral on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• collateral (finance) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• marketing collateral on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Alternative forms

• twynne (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• enPR: tw?n, IPA^(key): /tw?n/, [tw??n]
• Rhymes: -?n

Etymology 1

From Middle English twinne, twynne, from Old English ?etwin, ?etwinn (“twin, multiple”, noun) and twinn (“twin, two-fold, double, two by two”, adjective), from Proto-Germanic *twinjaz, *twinaz (“two each”), from Proto-Indo-European *dwino- (“twin”), from *dwóh? (“two”). Cognate with Scots twyn (“twin”), Dutch tweeling (“twin”), German Zwilling (“twin”), Swedish tvilling (“twin”), Faroese tvinnur (“a double set”), Icelandic tvenna (“duo, pair”), Lithuanian dvynys (“twin”), Russian ?????? (dvojnja, “twin”).

Noun

twin (plural twins)

1. Either of two people (or, less commonly, animals) who shared the same uterus at the same time; one who was born at the same birth as a sibling.
2. Either of two similar or closely related objects, entities etc.
3. A room in a hotel, guesthouse, etc. with two beds; a twin room.
4. (US) A twin size mattress or a bed designed for such a mattress.
5. (aviation) A two-engine aircraft.
6. (crystallography) A twin crystal.

Synonyms

• twindle, twinling, doublet (in the sense of twins and triplets)

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• twyndyllyng
• (hotel room): single, double
• twain

Verb

twin (third-person singular simple present twins, present participle twinning, simple past and past participle twinned)

1. (transitive, obsolete outside Scotland) To separate, divide.
2. (intransitive, obsolete outside Scotland) To split, part; to go away, depart.
3. (usually in the passive) To join, unite; to form links between (now especially of two places in different countries).

   • Still we moved / Together, twinned, as horse's ear and eye.

4. (intransitive) To be paired or suited.
5. (intransitive) To give birth to twins.
6. (intransitive, obsolete) To be born at the same birth.

See also

• sister city

Etymology 2

From Middle English *twin, *twyn, from Old English twin, twinn (“twin; double”, adjective), from Proto-Germanic *tw?hnaz (“occurring in a pair; twofold; double”), from Proto-Indo-European *dwóh? (“two”). Cognate with Icelandic tvennur (“double”), Gothic ???????????????????????????????? (tweihnai, “two each”).

Adjective

twin (not comparable)

1. double; dual; occurring as a matching pair

2. forming a pair of twins.

Synonyms

• (forming a matched pair): twofold; see also Thesaurus:dual

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• twin in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• twin in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• twin at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Wint

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /twin/

Adjective

twin

1. Alternative form of twinn

Declension