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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.
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.
- (small, exclusive group): coterie, inner circle, camp
- (antonym(s) of “graph theory”): independent set
- (small, exclusive group): ingroup
small, exclusive group
- Afrikaans: kliek (af)
- Albanian: klikë (sq) f
- Arabic: طُغْمَة (ar) f (ṭuḡma), عُصْبَة f (ʕuṣba), زَمْرَة (ar) f (zamra)
- Armenian: խառնակչախումբ (hy) (xaṙnakčʻaxumb)
- Azerbaijani: güruh, dəstə (az)
- Belarusian: клі́ка f (klíka)
- Bulgarian: кли́ка (bg) f (klíka)
- Catalan: clica (ca) f, colla (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Czech: klika (cs) f
- Danish: klik c
- Dutch: kliek (nl) f
- Estonian: klikk
- Finnish: kuppikunta (fi)
- French: clique (fr) f
- Georgian: კლიკა (ḳliḳa)
- German: Clique (de) f
- Greek: κλίκα (el) f (klíka)
- Hebrew: קְלִיקָה f (klíka)
- Hungarian: klikk (hu)
- Irish: aicme f
- Italian: cricca (it) f, conventicola (it) f, congrega (it) f, cosca (it) f, camarilla (it) f, consorteria (it) f, associazione (it) f
- Japanese: 派閥 (ja) (はばつ, habatsu), クリーク (kurīku)
- Kazakh: сұрқиялар тобы (sūrqiälar toby), клика (klika)
- Korean: 파벌(派閥) (ko) (pabeol), 패거리 (ko) (paegeori)
- Latvian: kliķe f
- Lithuanian: klika f
- Macedonian: клика f (klika)
- Maori: uepū
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: klikk m
- Persian: گروهک (fa) (goruhak)
- Polish: klika (pl) f, koteria (pl) f, stronnictwo (pl) n, banda (pl) f
- Portuguese: panelinha (pt) f, clique (pt) m
- Romanian: clică (ro) f
- Russian: кли́ка (ru) f (klíka)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovak: klika f
- Slovene: klika f
- Spanish: pandilla (es) f, círculo (es) m, mundillo m, bando (es) m, bolita (es) f, corrillo (es) m, clica f (America), clika f (America)
- Swedish: klick (sv) c
- Thai: กลุ่ม (th) (glùm), พวก (th) (pûuak), คณะ (th) (ká-ná), พรรคพวก (th), ก๊ก (th) (gók), ก๊วน (th) (gúuan), เหล่า (th) (lào)
- Turkish: klik (tr)
- Ukrainian: клі́ка f (klíka)
- Vietnamese: bọn (vi), bè lũ, đảng phái (vi)
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Translations to be checked
- claque (another type of ingroup of people with biased interests)
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.
- Often used in the form clique together.
clique f (plural cliques)
- Alternative spelling of kliek (“clique, coterie”)
- (graph theory) clique, subgraph
From Old French cliquer, of imitative origin.
clique f (plural cliques)
clique
- inflection of cliquer:
- “clique”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
- Hyphenation: cli‧que
Borrowed from French clique.[1][2]
clique m (plural cliques)
- clique (small, exclusive group of people)
Borrowed from English click.[1][2]
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.
clique
- inflection of clicar:
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 “clique”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 “clique”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
clique
- inflection of clicar: