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groove

(gro͞ov)

1. A long narrow furrow or channel.

2. The spiral track cut into a phonograph record for the stylus to follow.

3. Slang A settled routine: got into the groove of a nine-to-five job.

4. Slang A situation or an activity that one enjoys or to which one is especially well suited: found his groove playing bass in a trio.

5. Slang A very pleasurable experience.

v. grooved, groov·ing, grooves

v.tr.

1. To cut a groove or grooves in.

2. Baseball To throw (a pitch) over the middle of home plate, where it is likely to be hit.

v.intr. Slang

a. To take great pleasure or satisfaction; enjoy oneself: just sitting around, grooving on the music.

b. To be affected with pleasurable excitement.

2. To react or interact harmoniously.

Idiom:

in the groove Slang

Performing exceptionally well.

[Middle English groof, mining shaft, probably from Middle Dutch groeve, ditch; see ghrebh- in Indo-European roots.]

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groove

(ɡruːv)

1. (Building) a long narrow channel or furrow, esp one cut into wood by a tool

2. (Electrical Engineering) the spiral channel, usually V-shaped, in a gramophone record. See also microgroove

3. (Firearms, Gunnery, Ordnance & Artillery) one of the spiral cuts in the bore of a gun

4. (Anatomy) anatomy any furrow or channel on a bodily structure or part; sulcus

5. (Mountaineering) mountaineering a shallow fissure in a rock face or between two rock faces, forming an angle of more than 120°

6. a settled existence, routine, etc, to which one is suited or accustomed, esp one from which it is difficult to escape

7. slang an experience, event, etc, that is groovy

8. (Jazz) jazz playing well and apparently effortlessly, with a good beat, etc

9. US fashionable

10. (tr) to form or cut a groove in

11. (intr) old-fashioned slang to enjoy oneself or feel in rapport with one's surroundings

12. (Jazz) (intr) jazz to play well, with a good beat, etc

[C15: from obsolete Dutch groeve, of Germanic origin; compare Old High German gruoba pit, Old Norse grof]

ˈgrooveless adj

ˈgrooveˌlike adj

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groove

(gruv)

n., v. grooved, groov•ing. n.

1. a long, narrow cut or indentation in a surface.

2. a track or channel of a phonograph record for the needle or stylus.

3. a fixed routine: to get into a groove.

4. the furrow at the bottom of a piece of type.

5. Slang. an enjoyable time or experience.

v.t.

6. to cut a groove in; furrow.

v.i.

7. Slang.

a. to take great pleasure; enjoy oneself in a relaxed way: grooving on the music.

b. to interact well; feel a rapport.

8. to fix in a groove.

[1350–1400; Middle English grofe, groof mining shaft, probably < early Dutch groeve ditch, c. Old High German gruoba, Old Norse grōf, Gothic groba; akin to grave¹]

groove′like`, adj.

groov′er, n.

groove

Past participle: grooved
Gerund: grooving

Imperative
groove
groove

Present
I groove
you groove
he/she/it grooves
we groove
you groove
they groove

Preterite
I grooved
you grooved
he/she/it grooved
we grooved
you grooved
they grooved

Present Continuous
I am grooving
you are grooving
he/she/it is grooving
we are grooving
you are grooving
they are grooving

Present Perfect
I have grooved
you have grooved
he/she/it has grooved
we have grooved
you have grooved
they have grooved

Past Continuous
I was grooving
you were grooving
he/she/it was grooving
we were grooving
you were grooving
they were grooving

Past Perfect
I had grooved
you had grooved
he/she/it had grooved
we had grooved
you had grooved
they had grooved

Future
I will groove
you will groove
he/she/it will groove
we will groove
you will groove
they will groove

Future Perfect
I will have grooved
you will have grooved
he/she/it will have grooved
we will have grooved
you will have grooved
they will have grooved

Future Continuous
I will be grooving
you will be grooving
he/she/it will be grooving
we will be grooving
you will be grooving
they will be grooving

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been grooving
you have been grooving
he/she/it has been grooving
we have been grooving
you have been grooving
they have been grooving

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been grooving
you will have been grooving
he/she/it will have been grooving
we will have been grooving
you will have been grooving
they will have been grooving

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been grooving
you had been grooving
he/she/it had been grooving
we had been grooving
you had been grooving
they had been grooving

Conditional
I would groove
you would groove
he/she/it would groove
we would groove
you would groove
they would groove

Past Conditional
I would have grooved
you would have grooved
he/she/it would have grooved
we would have grooved
you would have grooved
they would have grooved

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Noun	1.	groove - 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) channel dado - a rectangular groove cut into a board so that another piece can fit into it fluting, flute - a groove or furrow in cloth etc (particularly a shallow concave groove on the shaft of a column) quirk - a narrow groove beside a beading rabbet, rebate - a rectangular groove made to hold two pieces together track - a groove on a phonograph recording rut - a groove or furrow (especially one in soft earth caused by wheels) imprint, impression, depression - a concavity in a surface produced by pressing; "he left the impression of his fingers in the soft mud" stria, striation - any of a number of tiny parallel grooves such as: the scratches left by a glacier on rocks or the streaks or ridges in muscle tissue washout - the channel or break produced by erosion of relatively soft soil by water; "it was several days after the storm before they could repair the washout and open the road"
	2.	groove - a settled and monotonous routine that is hard to escape; "they fell into a conversational rut" rut modus operandi, routine - an unvarying or habitual method or procedure
	3.	groove - (anatomy) any furrow or channel on a bodily structure or part vallecula body part - any part of an organism such as an organ or extremity costal groove - groove between the ribs where the nerves and blood vessels are fissure - (anatomy) a long narrow slit or groove that divides an organ into lobes anatomy, general anatomy - the branch of morphology that deals with the structure of animals
Verb	1.	groove - make a groove in, or provide with a groove; "groove a vinyl record" dado - cut a dado into or fit into a dado mill - produce a ridge around the edge of; "mill a coin" incise - make an incision into by carving or cutting
	2.	groove - hollow out in the form of a furrow or groove; "furrow soil" furrow, rut cut into, delve, dig, turn over - turn up, loosen, or remove earth; "Dig we must"; "turn over the soil for aeration"

groove

noun indentation, cut, hollow, score, channel, trench, rebate, flute, gutter, trough, furrow, rut Grooves were made in the shelf to accommodate the back panel.

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groove

noun

Slang. A habitual, laborious, often tiresome course of action:

routine, rut, treadmill.

Informal: grind.

phrasal verb
groove on

Slang. To like or enjoy enthusiastically, often excessively:

adore, delight (in), dote on (or upon), love.

Slang: eat up.

Translations

أخْدود أو حَز في أسطوانه

drážkarýha

furerille

Rille Rinne Zug

εγκοπή

ranura surco estría

rainure sillon cannelure

gróp, rák, skora

scanalatura solco traccia tran trantran-tran

įpjovarievėrievėtassu grioveliais

rieva

rille spor

drážka

brazdautorzarezažlebič

yiv

槽沟

groove

[gruːv]

A. N

1. (in wood, metal etc) → ranura f, estría f; [of record] → surco m
to be (stuck) in a groove → estar metido en una rutina

2. to be in the groove → estar en forma

3. (Mus) (= rhythm) → ritmo m

B. VT (= put groove in) → estriar, acanalar

C. VI (= dance) → bailar

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groove

[ˈgruːv] n

(in joinery) → rainure f

(in record) → sillon m

(= rhythm) → groove m

groove

n → Rille f; (in rock also) → Rinne f, → Furche f; (in face) → Furche f; (fig) → altes Gleis; to get into the groove (inf) → in Fahrt kommen; he’s (stuck) in a groove (inf) → er kommt aus seinem alten Trott nicht heraus

vt → Rillen machen in (+acc), → rillen; (water) stone → aushöhlen, Rinnen or Furchen machen in (+acc); face → furchen

vi (dated sl) → einen losmachen (dated sl); to groove to the music → mit der Musik mitgehen

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groove

[gruːv] n (in wood, metal) → solco, scanalatura; (of record) → solco

groove

(gruːv) noun

a long, narrow cut made in a surface. the groove in a record.

grooved adjective

grooved edges.

groove

n. surco, ranura;

bicipital ___ → ___ bicipital;

costal ___ → ___ costal.

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They do not see what is not obvious, are unable to do the unexpected, are incapable of adjusting their well-grooved lives to other and strange grooves. In short, when they come to the end of their own groove, they die.

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I don't suppose you know what it is to get into a groove and long to get out of it and not have the pluck.

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"Done!" says Groove, another amateur of quieter look, taking out his notebook to enter it, for our friend Rattle sometimes forgets these little things.

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I liked the picture of him starting at the age of forty-seven, when most men have already settled comfortably in a groove, for a new world.

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"And you get into a groove because, on the whole, it's rather a pleasant groove.

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In one heavy thunder-shower the lightning struck a large pitch pine across the pond, making a very conspicuous and perfectly regular spiral groove from top to bottom, an inch or more deep, and four or five inches wide, as you would groove a walking-stick.

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A box of projectiles in a groove in the thickness of the butt end contained about twenty of these electric balls, which, by means of a spring, were forced into the barrel of the gun.

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He and Dunsford had worked at the subject together on Philip's skeleton, asking each other questions till both knew by heart every attachment and the meaning of every nodule and groove on the human bones; but in the examination room Philip was seized with panic, and failed to give right answers to questions from a sudden fear that they might be wrong.

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On the roof of my closet, not directly over the middle of the hammock, I ordered the joiner to cut out a hole of a foot square, to give me air in hot weather, as I slept; which hole I shut at pleasure with a board that drew backward and forward through a groove.

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No wonder his thoughts were still with his loom and his money when he made his journeys through the fields and the lanes to fetch and carry home his work, so that his steps never wandered to the hedge-banks and the lane-side in search of the once familiar herbs: these too belonged to the past, from which his life had shrunk away, like a rivulet that has sunk far down from the grassy fringe of its old breadth into a little shivering thread, that cuts a groove for itself in the barren sand.

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He carried in his coat pocket a shallow box with grooves in it, and in the grooves strips of glass five inches long and three inches wide.

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The strokes of the bare feet had worn grooves inches deep in the stone flags; it had taken many generations of swinging children to accomplish that.