clique

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

Noun

 * 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.
 * 1)  A subgraph isomorphic to a complete graph.
 * The problem of finding the largest clique in an arbitrary graph is NP-complete.
 * 1)  A group of related web sites that link to each other, like a webring but with exclusive membership determined by the clique owner.
 * 1)  A group of related web sites that link to each other, like a webring but with exclusive membership determined by the clique owner.

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic:, عُصْبَة,
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: güruh,
 * Belarusian: клі́ка
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 小集團, 小圈子, ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish: klik
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian: klikk
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: კლიკა
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: קְלִיקָה
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish: aicme
 * Italian:, , , , , ,
 * Japanese:, クリーク
 * Kazakh: сұрқиялар тобы, клика
 * Korean: ,
 * Latvian: kliķe
 * Lithuanian: klika
 * Macedonian: клика
 * Maori: uepū
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: klikk
 * Persian:
 * Polish:, , ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: кли̏ка
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: klika
 * Slovene: klika
 * Spanish:, , mundillo, , ,
 * Swedish:
 * Thai:, ,
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: клі́ка
 * Vietnamese:, bè lũ,


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Hebrew: קליקה
 * Italian:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: clica


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Russian:

Verb

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

Usage notes

 * Often used in the form clique together.

Etymology
Borrowing from.

Etymology
From cliquer, of  origin.

Noun

 * 1) clique

Etymology 1
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Noun

 * 1)  small, exclusive group of people

Etymology 2
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Noun

 * 1) click sharp sound
 * 2)  click
 * 3) click the act of pressing a button
 * 4) light-bulb moment