Group vs. Clique: What's the Difference?
Group and Clique Definitions
Group
An assemblage of persons or objects gathered or located together; an aggregation
A group of dinner guests.
A group of buildings near the road.
Clique
A small exclusive group of friends or associates.
Group
A set of two or more figures that make up a unit or design, as in sculpture.
Clique
To form, associate in, or act as a clique.
Group
A number of individuals or things considered or classed together because of similarities
A small group of supporters across the country.
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Clique
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.
Group
(Linguistics) A category of related languages that is less inclusive than a family.
Clique
(graph theory) A subgraph isomorphic to a complete graph.
The problem of finding the largest clique in an arbitrary graph is NP-complete.
Group
A military unit consisting of two or more battalions and a headquarters.
Clique
(Internet) A group of related web sites that link to each other, like a webring but with exclusive membership determined by the clique owner.
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Group
A unit of two or more squadrons in the US Air Force, smaller than a wing.
Clique
(intransitive) To associate together in a clannish way; to act with others secretly to gain a desired end; to plot.
Group
Two or more atoms behaving or regarded as behaving as a single chemical unit.
Clique
A narrow circle of persons associated by common interests or for the accomplishment of a common purpose; - generally used in a bad sense.
Group
A column in the periodic table of the elements.
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Clique
To To associate together in a clannish way; to act with others secretly to gain a desired end; to plot; - used with together.
Group
(Geology) A stratigraphic unit, especially a unit consisting of two or more formations deposited during a single geologic era.
Clique
An exclusive circle of people with a common purpose
Group
(Mathematics) A set, together with a binary associative operation, such that the set is closed under the operation, the set contains an identity element for the operation, and each element of the set has an inverse element with respect to the operation. The integers form a group under the operation of ordinary addition.
Group
Of, relating to, constituting, or being a member of a group
A group discussion.
A group effort.
Group
To place or arrange in a group
Grouped the children according to height.
Group
To belong to or form a group
The soldiers began to group on the hillside.
Group
A number of things or persons being in some relation to one another.
There is a group of houses behind the hill;
He left town to join a Communist group
A group of people gathered in front of the Parliament to demonstrate against the Prime Minister's proposals.
Group
(group theory) A set with an associative binary operation, under which there exists an identity element, and such that each element has an inverse.
Group
An effective divisor on a curve.
Group
A (usually small) group of people who perform music together.
Did you see the new jazz group?
Group
(astronomy) A small number (up to about fifty) of galaxies that are near each other.
Group
(chemistry) A column in the periodic table of chemical elements.
Group
(chemistry) A functional group.
Nitro is an electron-withdrawing group.
Group
(sociology) A subset of a culture or of a society.
Group
(military) An air force formation.
Group
(geology) A collection of formations or rock strata.
Group
(computing) A number of users with the same rights with respect to accession, modification, and execution of files, computers and peripherals.
Group
An element of an espresso machine from which hot water pours into the portafilter.
Group
(music) A number of eighth, sixteenth, etc., notes joined at the stems; sometimes rather indefinitely applied to any ornament made up of a few short notes.
Group
(sports) A set of teams playing each other in the same division, while not during the same period playing any teams that belong to other sets in the division.
Group
(business) A commercial organization.
Group
(transitive) To put together to form a group.
Group the dogs by hair colour
Group
(intransitive) To come together to form a group.
Group
A cluster, crowd, or throng; an assemblage, either of persons or things, collected without any regular form or arrangement; as, a group of men or of trees; a group of isles.
Group
An assemblage of objects in a certain order or relation, or having some resemblance or common characteristic; as, groups of strata.
Group
A variously limited assemblage of animals or plants, having some resemblance, or common characteristics in form or structure. The term has different uses, and may be made to include certain species of a genus, or a whole genus, or certain genera, or even several orders.
Group
A number of eighth, sixteenth, etc., notes joined at the stems; - sometimes rather indefinitely applied to any ornament made up of a few short notes.
Group
To form a group of; to arrange or combine in a group or in groups, often with reference to mutual relation and the best effect; to form an assemblage of.
The difficulty lies in drawing and disposing, or, as the painters term it, in grouping such a multitude of different objects.
Group
Any number of entities (members) considered as a unit
Group
(chemistry) two or more atoms bound together as a single unit and forming part of a molecule
Group
A set that is closed, associative, has an identity element and every element has an inverse
Group
Arrange into a group or groups;
Can you group these shapes together?
Group
Form a group or group together
