The difference between Clique and Ingroup

When used as nouns, clique means a small, exclusive group of individuals, whereas ingroup means the social group that one belongs to.

When used as verbs, clique means to associate together in a clannish way, whereas ingroup means to form an ingroup.


check bellow for the other definitions of Clique and Ingroup

  1. Clique as a noun:

    A small, exclusive group of individuals; a cabal.

    Examples:

    "This school used to be really friendly, but now everyone keeps to their own cliques."

  2. Clique as a noun (graph theory):

    A subgraph isomorphic to a complete graph.

    Examples:

    "The problem of finding the largest clique in an arbitrary graph is NP-complete."

  3. Clique as a noun (Internet):

    A group of related web sites that link to each other, like a webring but with exclusive membership determined by the clique owner.

  1. Clique as a verb (intransitive):

    To associate together in a clannish way; to act with others secretly to gain a desired end; to plot.

  1. Ingroup as a noun (sociology):

    The social group that one belongs to.

  2. Ingroup as a noun (systematics):

    In cladistics, the monophyletic group that includes all taxa of interest to the current study.

  1. Ingroup as a verb:

    To form an ingroup.

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