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groove

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noun

a long, narrow cut or indentation in a surface, as the cut in a board to receive the tongue of another board (tongue-and-groove joint), a furrow, or a natural indentation on an organism.

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

a fixed routine: to get into a groove.

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

Slang. an enjoyable time or experience.

verb (used with object)

to cut a groove in; furrow.

Slang.

to appreciate and enjoy.

to please immensely.

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verb (used without object)

Slang.

to take great pleasure; enjoy oneself: He was grooving on the music.

to get along or interact well.

to fix in a groove.

Idiom

10.

in the groove, Slang.

in perfect functioning order.

in the popular fashion; up-to-date: If you want to be in the groove this summer, you'll need a bikini.

Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English grofe, groof mining shaft; cognate with Middle Dutch groeve, Dutch groef, German Grube pit, ditch; akin to grave¹

Related forms

groove·less, adjective

groove·like, adjective

groov·er, noun

re·groove, verb (used with object), -grooved, -groov·ing.

Synonyms
3. rut, habit, pattern.

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Example Sentences

All that's left is something resembling a funk groove and tiny, twinkly tones on top.

It took a good four or five months" to get back in the groove.

Hitachi has a prototype chip that fits into the groove of a thumb-print.

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All that's left is something resembling a funk groove and tiny, twinkly tones on top.

It took a good four or five months" to get back in the groove.

Hitachi has a prototype chip that fits into the groove of a thumb-print.

Instead, the toxin flows down a telltale groove in a fang's surface and into the bite wound, inducing a state of shock.

Turns out that the venom's viscosity keeps it nestled in the groove.

For all their individual talents, the musicians had trouble finding a groove.

Monkeys don't care much for human music, but apparently they will groove to their own beat.

Since then there have been festival and concert tours, ample time for the music to hit a groove.

They ask us probing questions, forcing us out of the groove of our memorized speeches.

The fossil bat had a similar groove in its elbow as its modern counterpart.

No-till seeders slice open a small groove for seeds, keeping soil disturbance to a minimum.

Lasers cut a wake through plasma, then inject the light-speed groove with electrons.

The track also features a central groove left by the water scorpion's dragging tail, leaving indications of jerky movements.

The nerve rests in a groove called the cubital tunnel tucked behind the bony point on the elbow.

The first numeral in the correct number will begin with an inkless groove of oil and develop into a solid line.

And since muscle contraction velocity increases as sinews warm up, you can get into a groove right from the start of your workout.

Anybody who has experienced that know how it feels totally different from not being in groove.

The medicine stops the virus by fitting into a groove on its surface.

Edgerton wasn't concerned with getting his groove on, though.

If you're one of these rocking souls, click it, pic it and groove on.

Other forms included the detainee being fastened in a groove upon a table on his or her back.

Screens held in place by a vinyl cord called a spline, pressed into a groove around the frame, are the easiest to replace.

The pot allegedly had waveforms etched into a groove as a potter incised a line with a stylus while the pot spun.

Finally, use a router to create a groove for the soffit near the lower edge of the fascia, if one is needed.

There are a lot of writers who find a groove and spend a career mining that vein.

Mobile handsets have settled into a groove featurewise and are now gently nudging their way upward in speed.

Measure the width of the groove in the old fascia and its distance from the board's lower edge.

Then cut a similar groove with a straight router bit.

The needle transmitted sound waves onto the wax paper by cutting a groove that varied in depth depending on the sound wave.

If the pulleys at the top of the window track are made of metal and their groove is large enough, chain can be used.

Areas on the box, such as the chiseled edge-trim groove demonstrate a high level of deterioration.

By comparison the rest of his set felt wan, as he cued up beats and looped rudimentary keyboard chords, improvising a groove.

It had a large, worn groove in it that had surely been used to grind corn and sorghum.

Reality mining can also spot when a group is in a groove.

The chair has an attached martini table and a groove to hold magazines.

Floorboards are fitted so that the tongue of one fits into the groove of its neighbor.

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World English Dictionary

groove (ɡruːv)

—n
1.	a long narrow channel or furrow, esp one cut into wood by a tool
2.	See also microgroove the spiral channel, usually V-shaped, in a gramophone record
3.	one of the spiral cuts in the bore of a gun
4.	anatomy any furrow or channel on a bodily structure or part; sulcus
5.	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.	in the groove
	a. jazz playing well and apparently effortlessly, with a good beat, etc
	b. (US) fashionable

—vb
9.	(tr) to form or cut a groove in
10.	old-fashioned, slang (intr) to enjoy oneself or feel in rapport with one's surroundings
11.	(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]

'grooveless

—*adj*

'groovelike

—*adj*

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Word Origin & History

groove

c.1400, from O.N. grod "pit," or M.Du. groeve "furrow, ditch," from P.Gmc. *grobo (cf. O.N. grof "brook, river bed," O.H.G. gruoba "ditch," Goth. groba "pit, cave," O.E. græf "ditch"), related to grave (n.). Sense of "long, narrow channel or furrow" is 1659. Meaning

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"spiral cut in a phonograph record" is from 1902. Fig. sense of "routine" is from 1842, often depreciatory at first, "a rut." Adj. groovy is 1853 in lit. sense of "of a groove;" 1937 in slang sense of "excellent," from jazz slang phrase in the groove (1932) "performing well (without grandstanding)." As teen slang for "wonderful," it dates from 1944; popularized 1960s, out of currency by 1980.

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American Heritage

Medical Dictionary

groove (gr&oomacr;v)
n.
A rut, groove, or narrow depression or channel in a surface.

Slang Dictionary

groove definition

n.
something pleasant or cool. (See also in the groove.) : This day has been a real groove.

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Idioms & Phrases

groove

see in the groove.

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"We were too light, Electra. Now our feet press down in the earth like the wheels of a cart in its groove. Come with me, and we will walk heavily, bending under the weight of our heavy load."

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