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clique

Audio Help [kleek, klik] Pronunciation Key noun, verb, cliqued, cli·quing.

–noun

1.	a small, exclusive group of people; coterie; set.

–verb (used without object)

2.	Informal. to form, or associate in, a clique.

[Origin: 1705–15; < F, appar. metaphorical use of MF clique latch, or n. deriv. of cliquer to make noise, resound, imit. word parallel to click¹

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—Related forms

cliqueless, adjective

cliquey, cliquy, adjective

cliquism, noun

—Synonyms 1. See circle, ring¹.

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clique Audio Help   (klēk, klĭk) Pronunciation Key
n.   A small exclusive group of friends or associates.

intr.v.   cliqued, cliqu·ing, cliques Informal
To form, associate in, or act as a clique.

[French, from Old French, latch or from obsolete French cliquer, to click, clink, of imitative origin.]

cliqu'ey, cliqu'y, cliqu'ish adj., cliqu'ish·ly adv., cliqu'ish·ness n.

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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
clique

1711, from Fr. clique, from O.Fr. cliquer "to make a noise," echoic. Apparently this word was at one time treated as the equivalent of claque.

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clique
noun
an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
clique [kliːk] noun

a group of people who are friendly with each other but exclude others
Example: the golf-club clique

Arabic:	زُمره، عُصبه
Chinese (Simplified):	小集团
Chinese (Traditional):	小集團
Czech:	parta
Danish:	klike
Dutch:	kliek
Estonian:	kildkond
Finnish:	kuppikunta
French:	clique
German:	die Clique
Greek:	κλίκα
Hungarian:	klikk
Icelandic:	klíka
Indonesian:	klik
Italian:	gruppo ristretto*

Japanese:	徒党
Korean:	도당, 파벌
Latvian:	kliķe
Lithuanian:	klika
Norwegian:	klikk, krets
Polish:	klika
Portuguese (Brazil):	panela
Portuguese (Portugal):	panelinha
Romanian:	clică, gaşcă
Russian:	клика
Slovak:	partia, klika
Slovenian:	klika
Spanish:	camarilla
Swedish:	klick, kotteri
Turkish:	grup, hizip, klik

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clique mathematics
A maximal totally connected subgraph. Given a graph with nodes N, a clique C is a subset of N where every node in C is directly connected to every other node in C (i.e. C is totally connected), and C contains all such nodes (C is maximal). In other words, a clique contains all, and only, those nodes which are directly connected to all other nodes in the clique.
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Clique

Click\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Clicked; p. pr. & vb. n. Clicking.] [Prob. an onomatopoetic word: cf. OF. cliquier. See Clack, and cf. Clink, Clique.] To make a slight, sharp noise (or a succession of such noises), as by gentle striking; to tick.

The varnished clock that clicked behind the door. --Goldsmith.

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Clique

Clique\, n. [F., fr. OF. cliquer to click. See Click, v. i.] A narrow circle of persons associated by common interests or for the accomplishment of a common purpose; -- generally used in a bad sense.

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