Confederacy vs Clique - What's the difference?
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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.
Confederacy is a related term of clique.
As a proper noun confederacy
is (historical) the informal name for the , the collection of american states that seceded from the united states in 1861, and fought against the union in the american civil war.As a verb clique is
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English
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.