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Webster 1913 Edition

Groove

Groove

,
Noun.
[D.
groef
,
groeve
; akin to E.
grove
. See
Grove
.]
1.
A furrow, channel, or long hollow, such as may be formed by cutting, molding, grinding, the wearing force of flowing water, or constant travel; a depressed way; a worn path; a rut.
2.
Hence: The habitual course of life, work, or affairs; fixed routine.
The gregarious trifling of life in the social
groove
.
J. Morley.
3.
[See
Grove
.]
(Mining)
A shaft or excavation.
[Prov. Eng.]

Groove

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Grooved
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Groving
.]
To cut a groove or channel in; to form into channels or grooves; to furrow.

Webster 1828 Edition

Groove

GROOVE

,
Noun.
groov.
1.
A furrow, channel, or long hollow cut by a tool. Among joiners, a channel in the edge of a molding, style or rail.
2.
Among miners, a shaft or pit sunk into the earth.

GROOVE

,
Verb.
T.
To cut a channel with an edged tool; to furrow.

Definition 2024

groove

groove

English

Noun

groove ‎(plural grooves)

  1. A long, narrow channel or depression; e.g., such a slot cut into a hard material to provide a location for an engineering component, a tyre groove, or a geological channel or depression.
  2. A fixed routine.
    • (Can we date this quote?) J. Morley
      The gregarious trifling of life in the social groove.
    • 1859, Charles Dickens, The Haunted House
      Through these distresses, the Odd Girl was cheerful and exemplary. But within four hours after dark we had got into a supernatural groove, and the Odd Girl had seen “Eyes,” and was in hysterics.
    • 2011 October 23, Becky Ashton, “QPR 1 - 0 Chelsea”, in BBC Sport:
      His counterpart Neil Warnock got his tactics spot on as Chelsea struggled to get into any sort of groove in the first half.
  3. The middle of the strike zone in baseball where a pitch is most easily hit.
  4. A pronounced, enjoyable rhythm.
  5. (mining) A shaft or excavation.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

groove ‎(third-person singular simple present grooves, present participle grooving, simple past and past participle grooved)

  1. To cut a groove or channel in; to form into channels or grooves; to furrow.
  2. To create, dance to, or enjoy rhythmic music.
    I was just starting to groove to the band, when we had to leave.

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Anagrams

French

Noun

groove m ‎(plural grooves)

  1. groove (fixed routine)

Spanish

Noun

groove m ‎(plural grooves)

  1. groove (music style)

Etymology

From Middle English groof, grofe ‎(“mining shaft”), from Old English *grōf ‎(“trench, furrow, something dug”), from Proto-Germanic *grōbō ‎(“groove, furrow”), from Proto-Indo-European *ghrebh- ‎(“to dig, scrape, bury”). Cognate with Dutch groef, groeve ‎(“groove; pit, grave”), German Grube ‎(“ditch, pit”), Norwegian grov ‎(“brook, riverbed”), Old English grafan ‎(“to dig”). More at grave.

grooves on a vinyl record

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ɡɹʊuv/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ɡɹuv/
  • Rhymes: -uːv

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