'Groove' definitions:
Definition of 'groove'
(from WordNet)
noun
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: groove, channel]
noun
A settled and monotonous routine that is hard to escape; "they fell into a conversational rut" [syn: rut, groove]
noun
(anatomy) any furrow or channel on a bodily structure or part [syn: groove, vallecula]
verb
Make a groove in, or provide with a groove; "groove a vinyl record"
verb
Definition of 'Groove'
From: GCIDE
Definition of 'Groove'
From: 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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Hence: The habitual course of life, work, or affairs; fixed routine. [1913 Webster]
- The gregarious trifling of life in the social groove. --J. Morley. [1913 Webster]
- 3. [See Grove.] (Mining) A shaft or excavation. [Prov. Eng.] [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'groove'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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