Partisan vs Clique - What's the difference?
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An adherent to a party or faction.
* 1924 : ARISTOTLE. Metaphysics . Translated by W. D. Ross. Nashotah, Wisconsin, USA: The Classical Library, 2001. Available at: . Book 1, Part 5.
A fervent, sometimes militant, supporter or proponent of a party, cause, faction, person, or idea.
A member of a band of detached light, irregular troops acting behind occupying enemy lines in the ways of harassment or sabotage; a guerrilla fighter
The commander of a body of detached light troops engaged in making forays and harassing an enemy.
Serving as commander or member of a body of detached light troops: as, a partisan officer or corps.
Adherent to a party or faction; especially, having the character of blind, passionate, or unreasonable adherence to a party; as, blinded by partisan zeal.
Devoted to or biased in support of a party, group, or cause: partisan politics.
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(historical) A spear with a triangular, double-edged blade.
(obsolete) A soldier armed with such a weapon.
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.
As a noun partisan
is partisan (member of a body of detached light troops).As a verb clique is
.partisan
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(wikipedia partisan)Alternative forms
* partizanEtymology 1
From (etyl) partisan, from (etyl) . English from the mid-16th century. The sense of "guerilla fighter" is from c. 1690. The adjective in the military sense dates from the early 18th century, in the political sense since 1842.Noun
(en noun)- while Xenophanes, the first of these partisans of the One (for Parmenides is said to have been his pupil), gave no clear statement,
Adjective
(en adjective)citation, page= , passage=England will regard it as a measure of justice for Frank Lampard's disallowed goal against Germany in Bloemfontein at the 2010 World Cup - but it was also an illustration of how they rode their luck for long periods in front of a predictably partisan home crowd.}}
Etymology 2
From (etyl) partizaine, (partisanne) et al., from (etyl) partigiana, related to Etymology 1, above (apparently because it was seen as a typical weapon of such forces).Noun
(en noun)See also
* halberdAnagrams
* ----clique
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.