Groove

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Groove \Groove\, v. 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.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Groove \Groove\, n. [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.
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     2. Hence: The habitual course of life, work, or affairs;
        fixed routine.
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              The gregarious trifling of life in the social
              groove.                               --J. Morley.
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     3. [See {Grove}.] (Mining) A shaft or excavation. [Prov.
        Eng.]
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  groove
       n 1: a long narrow furrow cut either by a natural process (such
            as erosion) or by a tool (as e.g. a groove in a
            phonograph record) [syn: {channel}]
       2: a settled and monotonous routine that is hard to escape;
          "they fell into a conversational rut" [syn: {rut}]
       3: (anatomy) any furrow or channel on a bodily structure or
          part [syn: {vallecula}]
       v 1: make a groove in, or provide with a groove; "groove a vinyl
            record"
       2: hollow out in the form of a furrow or groove; "furrow soil"
          [syn: {furrow}, {rut}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  249 Moby Thesaurus words for "groove":
     abysm, abyss, alameda, arroyo, ascender, autolithograph, back,
     bastard type, be a printmaker, beard, beat, beaten path,
     beaten track, belly, berm, bevel, bezel, bicycle path,
     black letter, boardwalk, body, bore, box canyon, breach, break,
     bridle path, bureaucracy, bureaucratism, burrow, canal, canalize,
     canyon, cap, capital, carve, case, catwalk, cavity, chamfer,
     channel, chap, character, chase, chasm, check, chimney, chink,
     chinoiserie, chisel, cleave, cleft, cleuch, clough, col, corrugate,
     corrugation, coulee, couloir, counter, crack, cranny, crease,
     crevasse, crevice, cribble, crimp, crosshatch, cut, cut apart, cwm,
     dado, daily grind, defile, dell, delve, descender, dig, dig out,
     dike, ditch, donga, draw, dredge, drill, drive, em, en, enchase,
     engrave, engraving, esplanade, excavate, excavation, face,
     fastwalk, fat-faced type, fault, feet, fissure, flaw, flume, flute,
     fluting, font, foot pavement, footpath, footway, fracture, furrow,
     gap, gape, garden path, gash, glyph, goffer, gorge, gouge,
     gouge out, grave, grind, grub, gulch, gulf, gully, hatch,
     hiking trail, hole, incise, incision, inscribe, italic, jog trot,
     joint, kloof, leak, letter, ligature, line, lithograph, logotype,
     lower, lower case, majuscule, make prints, mall, mark, microgroove,
     mine, minuscule, moat, nick, notch, nullah, open, opening, pace,
     parade, pass, passage, path, pathway, pi, pica, pleat, plow, point,
     prado, print, promenade, public walk, quarry, rabbet, ravine,
     red tape, red-tapeism, rent, rifle, rifling, rift, rime, rive,
     roman, rote, round, routine, ruck, run, runway, rupture, rut,
     sans serif, sap, scissure, scoop, scoop out, score, scrabble,
     scrape, scratch, script, sculpture, seam, shank, shoulder, shovel,
     sidewalk, sink, slit, slot, small cap, small capital, spade, split,
     squirrel cage, stamp, stem, stipple, streak, stria, striate,
     striation, sulcation, sulcus, tool, towing path, towpath, track,
     trail, treadmill, trench, trottoir, trough, tunnel, type,
     type body, type class, type lice, typecase, typeface, typefounders,
     typefoundry, upper case, valley, void, wadi, walk, walkway,
     well-worn groove, wrinkle