clique

名词 n. 动词 v. 专有名词

英文释义

名词 n.
  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.
  2. A subgraph isomorphic to a complete graph.
    — The problem of finding the largest clique in an arbitrary graph is NP-complete.
  3. A group of related web sites that link to each other, like a webring but with exclusive membership determined by the clique owner. Internet
    — Does anyone know what an internet clique is/does? I came across a few and am thoroughly confused.
  4. A shortened form of the Skeleton Clique, the fan base of the Twenty One Pilots.
    — The Skeleton Clique, often referred to as just 'the clique,' is what members of the Twenty One Pilots fandom have dubbed themselves.
动词 v.
  1. To associate together in a clannish way; to act with others secretly to gain a desired end; to plot. intransitive
专有名词
  1. Alternative letter-case form of Clique. alt-of

词形变化

cliques plural cliques present,singular,third-person cliquing participle,present cliqued participle,past cliqued past the clique canonical

词源

词源 1
Borrowed from French clique, ultimately of imitative origin. Influenced by claque, though this may have happened in French rather than in English.
词源 2
Borrowed from French clique, ultimately of imitative origin. Influenced by claque, though this may have happened in French rather than in English.
词源 3
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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