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
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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."
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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."
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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.
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Clique as a verb (intransitive):
To associate together in a clannish way; to act with others secretly to gain a desired end; to plot.
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Ingroup as a noun (sociology):
The social group that one belongs to.
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Ingroup as a noun (systematics):
In cladistics, the monophyletic group that includes all taxa of interest to the current study.
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Ingroup as a verb:
To form an ingroup.