Class vs Clique - What's the difference?
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(countable) A group, collection, category or set sharing characteristics or attributes.
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, title= (countable) A social grouping, based on job, wealth, etc. In Britain, society is commonly split into three main classes; upper class, middle class and working class.
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, title= (uncountable) The division of society into classes.
(uncountable) Admirable behavior; elegance.
(countable, and, uncountable) A group of students in a regularly scheduled meeting with a teacher.
A series of classes covering a single subject.
(countable) A group of students who commenced or completed their education during a particular year. A school class.
(countable) A category of seats in an airplane, train or other means of mass transportation.
(biology, taxonomy, countable) A rank in the classification of organisms, below phylum and above order; a taxon of that rank.
Best of its kind.
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(mathematics) A collection of sets definable by a shared property.
(military) A group of people subject to be conscripted in the same military draft, or more narrowly those persons actually conscripted in a particular draft.
(programming, object-oriented) A set of objects having the same behavior (but typically differing in state), or a template defining such a set.
One of the sections into which a Methodist church or congregation is divided, supervised by a class leader .
To assign to a class; to classify.
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To divide into classes, as students; to form into, or place in, a class or classes.
(Irish, British, slang) great; fabulous
A small, exclusive group of individuals; cabal
(graph theory) A subgraph isomorphic to a complete graph.
(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?'' (on newsgroup ''alt.fan.leo-dicaprio )
* 2000 , "- deanna -", ot: hiya'' (on newsgroup ''alt.fan.backstreet.boys )
* 2001 , "spee2k", future no doubt website....'' (on newsgroup ''alt.music.no-doubt )
To associate together in a clannish way; to act with others secretly to gain a desired end; to plot.
Class is a related term of clique.
As verbs the difference between class and clique
is that class is to assign to a class; to classify while clique is .As a noun class
is (countable) a group, collection, category or set sharing characteristics or attributes.As an adjective class
is (irish|british|slang) great; fabulous.class
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(wikipedia class)Noun
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Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* business class * character class * class action * class clown * class diagram * class reunion * class struggle * economy class * equivalence class * first class * form class * middle class * noun class * pitch class * professional class * school class * second class * social class * spectral class * super class * third class * touch of class * upper class * working class * abstract class * anonymous/local class * base class * class diagram * convenience class * factory class * final class * inner class * outer class * static class * subclass * wrapper classVerb
citation, passage=She was a fat, round little woman, richly apparelled in velvet and lace, […]; and the way she laughed, cackling like a hen, the way she talked to the waiters and the maid, […]—all these unexpected phenomena impelled one to hysterical mirth, and made one class her with such immortally ludicrous types as Ally Sloper, the Widow Twankey, or Miss Moucher.}}
- — Tatham.
Derived terms
(Derived terms) * outclass * subclassAdjective
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Noun
(en noun)- This school used to be really friendly, but now everyone keeps to their own cliques .
- The problem of finding the largest clique in an arbitrary graph is NP-complete.
- Does anyone know what an internet clique is/does? I came across a few and am thoroughly confused.
- 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...
- 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.