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Groove

//ɡɹuv// noun, verb, slang

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Noun
  1. 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 tire groove, or a geological channel or depression.
  2. 2
    a settled and monotonous routine that is hard to escape wordnet
  3. 3
    A fixed routine.

    "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."

  4. 4
    (anatomy) any furrow or channel on a bodily structure or part wordnet
  5. 5
    The middle of the strike zone in baseball where a pitch is most easily hit.
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  1. 6
    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) wordnet
  2. 7
    A pronounced, enjoyable rhythm.

    "Now, what you hear is not a test, I'm rapping to the beat / And me, the groove, and my friends are gonna try to move your feet"

  3. 8
    A good feeling (often as in the groove). dated, informal

    "You can't hide forever, just decide to make it better / Turn it into something good / Remember, you can choose not to lose / Find your groove and be a winner"

  4. 9
    A shaft or excavation.
  5. 10
    The optimal route around the track, or any of several such routes.
Verb
  1. 1
    To cut a groove or channel in; to form into channels or grooves; to furrow. transitive

    "The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails, whereon my soul is grooved to run."

  2. 2
    hollow out in the form of a furrow or groove wordnet
  3. 3
    To perform, dance to, or enjoy rhythmic music. intransitive

    "I was just starting to groove to the band when we had to leave."

  4. 4
    make a groove in, or provide with a groove wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English grov, grove, groof, grofe (“cave; pit; mining shaft”), probably from Old Norse gróf (“pit”) or from Middle Dutch groeve (“furrow, ditch”), both from Proto-West Germanic *grōbu, from Proto-Germanic *grōbō (“groove, furrow”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrebʰ- (“to dig, scrape, bury”). Cognate with Cimbrian gruuba (“gorge, ravine”), Dutch groef, groeve (“groove; pit, grave”), German Grube (“ditch, pit”), Luxembourgish Grouf (“pit, mine”), Mòcheno gruab (“mine”), Icelandic gróf (“pit, hollow”), Gothic 𐌲𐍂𐍉𐌱𐌰 (grōba, “foxhole”), Serbo-Croatian grèbati (“scratch, dig”). Related to Old English grafan (“to dig”). More at grave.

Etymology 2

From Middle English grov, grove, groof, grofe (“cave; pit; mining shaft”), probably from Old Norse gróf (“pit”) or from Middle Dutch groeve (“furrow, ditch”), both from Proto-West Germanic *grōbu, from Proto-Germanic *grōbō (“groove, furrow”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrebʰ- (“to dig, scrape, bury”). Cognate with Cimbrian gruuba (“gorge, ravine”), Dutch groef, groeve (“groove; pit, grave”), German Grube (“ditch, pit”), Luxembourgish Grouf (“pit, mine”), Mòcheno gruab (“mine”), Icelandic gróf (“pit, hollow”), Gothic 𐌲𐍂𐍉𐌱𐌰 (grōba, “foxhole”), Serbo-Croatian grèbati (“scratch, dig”). Related to Old English grafan (“to dig”). More at grave.

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