Difference between Verifying and Collateral

What is the difference between Verifying and Collateral?

Verifying as a verb is to substantiate or prove the truth of something while Collateral as a noun is 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.)

Verifying

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To substantiate or prove the truth of something

Collateral

Part of speech: noun

Definition: 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

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: parallel, along the same vein, side by side.Corresponding; accompanying, concomitant.being aside from the main subject; tangential, subordinate, ancillary.(family) of an indirect ancestral relationship, as opposed to lineal descendency.relating to a collateral in the sense of an obligation or security

Example sentence: Invention requires two things: One, the ability to try a lot of experiments, and two, not having to live with the collateral damage of failed experiments.

We hope you now know whether to use Verifying or Collateral in your sentence.

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