clique
English
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Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French clique, ultimately of imitative origin. Influenced by "claque", though this may have happened in French rather than in English.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]clique (plural cliques)
- 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.
- (graph theory) A subgraph isomorphic to a complete graph.
- The problem of finding the largest clique in an arbitrary graph is NP-complete.
- (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.
Synonyms
[edit]- (small, exclusive group): coterie, inner circle, camp
Antonyms
[edit]- (antonym(s) of “graph theory”): independent set
Hypernyms
[edit]- (small, exclusive group): ingroup
Derived terms
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[edit]Translations
[edit]small, exclusive group
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subgraph
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See also
[edit]- claque (another type of ingroup of people with biased interests)
Verb
[edit]clique (third-person singular simple present cliques, present participle cliquing, simple past and past participle cliqued)
- (intransitive) To associate together in a clannish way; to act with others secretly to gain a desired end; to plot.
Usage notes
[edit]- Often used in the form clique together.
See also
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Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]clique f (plural cliques)
- Alternative spelling of kliek (“clique, coterie”)
- (graph theory) clique, subgraph
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old French cliquer, of imitative origin.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]clique f (plural cliques)
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]Verb
[edit]clique
- inflection of cliquer:
Further reading
[edit]- “clique”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Portuguese
[edit]Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: cli‧que
Etymology 1
[edit]Borrowed from French clique.[1][2]
Noun
[edit]clique m (plural cliques)
- clique (small, exclusive group of people)
Etymology 2
[edit]Borrowed from English click.[1][2]
Noun
[edit]clique m (plural cliques)
- click (sharp sound)
- (phonetics) (click)
- click (the act of pressing a button)
- 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
[edit]Verb
[edit]clique
- inflection of clicar:
References
[edit]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 “clique”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 “clique”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
Spanish
[edit]Verb
[edit]clique
- inflection of clicar:
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