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Click, or Clique?

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Divine Rapscallion
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Here is one more set of sound-alike words with different meanings.

Click, from Dictionary.com:

[klik]
–noun
1.
a slight, sharp sound: At the click of the latch, the dog barked.
2.
a small device for preventing backward movement of a mechanism, as a detent or pawl.
3.
Phonetics . any one of a variety of ingressive, usually implosive, speech sounds, phonemic in some languages, produced by suction occlusion and plosive or affricative release.
4.
any one of a variety of familiar sounds used in calling or urging on horses or other animals, in expressing reprimand or sympathy, or produced in audible kissing.

–verb (used without object)
5.
to emit or make a slight, sharp sound, or series of such sounds, as by the cocking of a pistol: The door clicked shut.
6.
Informal .
a.
to succeed; make a hit: If the play clicks, the producer will be rich.
b.
to fit together; function well together: They get along in public, but their personalities don't really click.
c.
to become intelligible.
7.
Computers . to depress and release a mouse button rapidly, as to select an icon.

–verb (used with object)
8.
to cause to click.
9.
to strike together with a click: He clicked his heels and saluted.


Click would be used as a verb in a sentence as follows:

The new student didn't click with the popular crowd.


Clique, from Dictionary.com:

[kleek, klik]
–noun
1.
a small, exclusive group of people; coterie; set.

–verb (used without object)
2.
Informal . to form, or associate in, a clique.


Clique would be used as a noun in a sentence as follows:

Therefore, she wouldn't be invited into their clique.
Maggie R
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Clique would be used as a verb in a sentence as follows:

Therefore, she wouldn't be invited into their clique.


Actually, I believe the "clique" used in this sentence is a noun.

Here's an example of how "clique" can be used as a verb:

Sexual deviants tend to clique together.
Divine Rapscallion
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Quote by magnificent1rascal


Clique would be used as a verb in a sentence as follows:

Therefore, she wouldn't be invited into their clique.


Actually, I believe the "clique" used in this sentence is a noun.

Here's an example of how "clique" can be used as a verb:

Sexual deviants tend to clique together.


Yes, it was a noun in my sentence; thanks for the example of "clique" used (correctly!) as a verb.

I've corrected my original post to say that it was being used as a noun in the example.

Unfortunately, what we see more often is the spelling "click" used when the noun "clique" is what was meant.
Maggie R