clique

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See also: Clique and cliqué

English

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 Clique (disambiguation) on Wikipedia

Etymology

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Borrowed from French clique, ultimately of imitative origin. Influenced by "claque", though this may have happened in French rather than in English.

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Noun

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clique (plural cliques)

  1. A small, exclusive group of individuals, usually according to lifestyle or social status; a cabal.
    This school used to be really friendly, but now everyone keeps to their own cliques.
    • 1931, Dorothy L. Sayers, The Five Red Herrings:
      There had been talk of some disagreement about a picture, but in Sir Maxwell's experience, artists frequently disagreed about pictures, with no more consequences than a little cold-shouldering or the formation of a clique.
  2. (graph theory) A subgraph isomorphic to a complete graph.
    The problem of finding the largest clique in an arbitrary graph is NP-complete.
  3. (Internet) A group of related web sites that link to each other, like a webring but with exclusive membership determined by the clique owner.
    • 1999, Jackie, “someone help me out?”, in alt.fan.leo-dicaprio (Usenet):
      Does anyone know what an internet clique is/does? I came across a few and am thoroughly confused.
    • 2000, - deanna -, “ot: hiya”, in alt.fan.backstreet.boys (Usenet):
      even though we're not "regulars" anymore...*sniffle*...we still can't forget the NG...i always tell new fans about it...(people who join my clique, etc...)...and besides...i owe the NG a LOT...itz where i met my best friend...
    • 2001, spee2k, “future no doubt website....”, in alt.music.no-doubt (Usenet):
      you always have to click some big section and you get a whole new set of options in a different frame, thats[sic] usually on the other side of the screen. when you're there, you can choose from (in a section site stuff or something like that) link me, link you, links, top 10 links, free for all links, cliques, and webrings.

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Translations

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See also

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  • claque (another type of ingroup of people with biased interests)

Verb

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clique (third-person singular simple present cliques, present participle cliquing, simple past and past participle cliqued)

  1. (intransitive) To associate together in a clannish way; to act with others secretly to gain a desired end; to plot.

Usage notes

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  • Often used in the form clique together.

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Dutch

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Etymology

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Borrowing from French clique.

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Noun

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clique f (plural cliques)

  1. Alternative spelling of kliek (clique, coterie)
  2. (graph theory) clique, subgraph

French

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Etymology

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From Old French cliquer, of imitative origin.

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Noun

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clique f (plural cliques)

  1. clique

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Descendants

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Verb

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clique

  1. inflection of cliquer:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

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Portuguese

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Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: cli‧que

Etymology 1

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Borrowed from French clique.[1][2]

Noun

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clique m (plural cliques)

  1. clique (small, exclusive group of people)

Etymology 2

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Borrowed from English click.[1][2]

Noun

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clique m (plural cliques)

  1. click (sharp sound)
  2. (phonetics) (click)
  3. click (the act of pressing a button)
  4. light-bulb moment
    Não estava a conseguir chegar ao resultado, mas subitamente deu-se-me um clique.
    I was failing to reach the result, but suddenly I got a light-bulb moment.

Etymology 3

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Verb

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clique

  1. inflection of clicar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

References

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  1. 1.0 1.1 clique”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 20032024
  2. 2.0 2.1 clique”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 20082024

Spanish

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Verb

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clique

  1. inflection of clicar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative