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clique

/kleek, klik/US // klik, klɪk //UK // (kliːk, klɪk) //

小团体,小集团,朋党,朋克

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a small, exclusive group of people; coterie; set.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    cliqued, cli·quing.

    • : Informal. to form, or associate in, a clique.

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Examples

  • If tech giant CEOs were a high school clique, Mukesh Ambani would be its newest member, and everyone’s invited to a party at his house.

  • As a general rule, to prove Keller’s conjecture in dimension n, you use dice with n dots and try to find a clique of size 2n.

  • The question of whether it’s possible to find a clique of size 128 is a similar kind of problem.

  • Prove that such a clique can’t exist, on the other hand, and you’ve proved the conjecture true.

  • The fact that there’s no clique of four dice means Keller’s conjecture is true in dimension two.

  • Her travel clique has been known to arrive at an airport, bags packed, passport-in-hand, within hours of spotting a deal.

  • How ironic that the Hermit Kingdom is taking the blame for our first real look inside a clique that not even Vice dares penetrate.

  • The center-right hedge fund clique known as Third Way, and associated Blue Dogs and hangers on.

  • Not only is post-Yanukovych Ukraine dominated by a fascist clique, it is controlled by unnatural women.

  • A clique of GOP lawmakers say the debt ceiling crisis is a hoax.

  • Occasionally a clique seeks to get control of a corporation by the issue of new stock and taking it among themselves.

  • Such a clique of professional friends would sink a stronger man than Trevithick.

  • And at any rate it is another chance for this distracted archipelago of children, sat upon by a clique of fools.

  • They must be national; words that are the property of the mass of the people, not of a clique or a district.

  • Like words that are used by a small region are words which are understood by a clique of persons.