Groove

Definition: Groove

Groove

Noun

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).

2. A settled and monotonous routine that is hard to escape; "they fell into a conversational rut".

3. (anatomy) any furrow or channel on a bodily structure or part.

Verb

1. Make a groove in, or provide with a groove, as of a record, for example.

2. Make a groove in.

3. Hollow out in the form of a furrow or groove; "furrow soil".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "groove" was first used: 1290. (references)

Chemical Industry

Electrical Engineering

Geography

Industry

Mechanical Engineering

Mining

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Groove

Conformity

Be regular; Adjective: move in a groove; follow observe the rules, go by the rules, bend to the rules,obey the rules, obey the precedents; comply with, tally with, chime in with, fall in with; be guided by, be regulated by; fall into a custom,fall into a usage; follow the fashion, follow the crowd, pass muster, do as others do, hurler avec les loups; stand on ceremony; when in Rome do as the Romans do; go with the stream, go with the flow, swim with the stream, swim with the current, swim with the tide, blow with the wind; stick to the beaten track; (habit); keep one in countenance.

Furrow

Noun: furrow, groove, rut, sulcus, scratch, streak, striae, crack, score, incision, slit; chamfer, fluting; corduroy road, cradle hole.

Impulse

Rule, standing order, precedent, routine; red-tape, red-tapism; pipe clay; rut, groove.

Fall into a rut, fall into a custom; (conform to); tread the beaten track, follow the beaten track, tread the beaten path, follow the beaten; stare super antiquas vias; move in a rut, run on in a groove, go round like a horse in a mill, go on in the old jog trot way.

Preparation

Elaborate, mature, ripen, mellow, season, bring to maturity; nurture; (aid); hatch, cook, brew; temper, anneal, smelt; barbecue; infumate; maturate. equip, arm, man; fit-out, fit up; furnish, rig, dress, garnish, betrim, accouter, array, fettle, fledge; dress up, furbish up, brush up, vamp up; refurbish; sharpen one's tools, trim one's foils, set, prime, attune; whet the knife, whet the sword; wind up, screw up; adjust; (fit); put in trim, put in train, put in gear, put in working order, put in tune, put in a groove for, put in harness; pack.

Crosswords: Groove

Then it was every other daynow I'm lucky to find half an hour a week in which to get funky. I've got to get out of this rut and back into the groove! (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

Why, I threw off the Emperor's groove. (The Emperor's New Groove; writing credit: Chris Williams; Mark Dindal)

Come share in the joy of our groove thang (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

Life's a bitch is what happened! Somebody stole it, it's gone, there's nothing left! Now if you want to stay the night, I suggest that you put some move in that groove of yours (Beverly Hills, 90210; writing credit: Ed Ferrara; Jim Lincoln)

Your groove, I do deeply dig (Groove Is in the Heart; performing artist: Deee-Lite)

COS IT'S PARTY TIME YOU GOTTA GET YOUR GROOVE ON (I Know Where It's At; performing artist: All Saints)

I gotta get my groove on (Who Let The Dogs Out; performing artist: Baha Men)

It's time to get your groove on (Funkdafied; performing artist: Da Brat)

Well, you can swing it you can groove it ("At the Hop"; performing artist: Danny & The Juniors)

The Groove Tube (1974)

Strictly in the Groove (1942)

In the Groove (1941)

Comic Groove (2002)

Universal Groove (2001)

Let's Groove (performing artist: Wind & Fire Earth)

Addams Groove (performing artist: Hammer)

THE GROOVE LINE  (performing artist: Heatwave )

SHAKE YOUR GROOVE THING  (performing artist: Peaches & Herb )

Don't Disturb This Groove (performing artist: The System)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• 10 Minute Guide to Groove 2.0 (reference)

• Daily Groove A Big, Fat, Scary Devotional (reference)

• Disney Giant Movie Hits: 36 Contemporary Classics from the Little Mermaid to the Emperor's New Groove (reference)

• Get in the Groove: Building Tools and Peer-to-Peer Solutions with the Groove Platform (reference)

• Getting Your Groove Back: The Sassy Woman's Guide to Recharging Your Life (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Bassic Groove (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Krush Groove (reference)

• The Emperor's New Groove (reference)

• The Groove Tube (reference)

• The Emperor's New Groove - Ultimate 2 Disc Edition (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Exciting Voice: Live at the Coconut Groove (reference)

• Red Hot + Rhapsody: The Gershwin Groove (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Disney's Emperor's New Groove - Groove Center (reference)

• Bust A Groove (reference)

• Bust A Groove 2 (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Catskill Craftsmen Reversible Wood End Grain Block with Groove (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

A sand corridor between the spur and groove formation of the reef. The restoration effort focused on keeping coral fragments off the reef floor and out of the sand corridors where they would become abraded and scoured. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Figure 39. Spiral opening messenger - in the design of these messengers, the groove which allows the device to be placed on the cable is in the form of an S or Z. The messenger is locked on the cable by means of a rotating part at the top of the messenger. A simpler non-locking version of this messenger was produced by HYTECH, a California firm. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

War work in the groove. A modern rifling machine cutting the grooves in a gun barrel. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Expressions using "groove": blank groove ♦ Box groove ♦ chip groove ♦ costal groove ♦ Diamond groove ♦ fast groove ♦ get into a groove ♦ get stuck in the groove ♦ groove angle ♦ in the groove ♦ innermost recording groove ♦ inside end recording groove ♦ marginal groove ♦ medullary groove ♦ plain groove ♦ primitive groove ♦ run on in a groove ♦ spiral groove ♦ tongue and groove ♦ tongue and groove joint ♦ ulnar nerve groove syndrome ♦ unmodulated groove ♦ virginal groove. Additional references.

Beginning with "groove": groove-billed, groove-directed, groove-locked, groove-only, groove-pitch.

Ending with "groove": tongue-and-groove.

Albanian

gjurmë (Dent, dint, drag, footmark, footprint, footstep, impress, impression, indent, indentation, marking, print, print track, scent, sign, slot, smell, spoor, stamp, step, tincture, tinge, trace, track, trail, vestige, vestigium), zakon (consuetude, custom, habit, habitude, institute, institution, inurnment, knack, manners, mode, practice, praxis, rut, tradition, usage, use, way, wont), ulluk (cannelure, chamfer, gutter, runway, rut, spout), rutinë (humdrum, rote, routine), rruvijë (Nick), minierë (diggings, mine, quarry, rabbet), lug (runway, trough), kalibër (bore, caliber, calibre, gauge, grade, size), hap kanal (canalize, chamfer, ditch), brazdë (drill, furrow). (various references)

Arabic 

‏وضع ملائم, ‏حفر ثلما فى, ‏عادة (as a rule, commonly, custom, freak, generally, habit, habit of body, institution, observance, ordinarily, practice, praxis, rite, rubric, rule, usage, usually, wont), ‏خدد (channel, flute, furrow, gully, rut, spline), ‏أخدود (channel, flute, fluting, furrow, pothole, rut), ‏ثلم (blunt, chase, furrow, nick, notch), ‏روتين عملي, ‏شكل أخدودا. (various references)

Bulgarian 

жлеб (fillister, fuller, gouge, mortise, pod, rabbet, race, rebate, slot), погаждаме се (hit it off with), приятно преживяване, правя прорез, правя бразда, правя жлеб (chamfer, spline), правя вдлъбнатина (recess), прекарвам много приятно, добре изпълнена джазова мелодия, бразда (drill, furrow, line, notch, rut, score, sulcus), установен ред (order, routine, usage), заживявам монотонно, нарез (indent, knurl, rifle, thread, track, ward), вдлъбнатина (chase, concave, concavity, cove, hole, hollow, indent, indentation, indention, notch, pan, pit, recess, socket, well), влияем си взаимно, радвам се на (enjoy, taste), развълнувам (fluster, flutter, move, penetrate, shake, wind up, work on), рутина (drill, jogtrot, rote, round, routine, rut), прорез (cutting, notch, port, slot). (various references)

Chinese 

溝道 , 槽 (manger, trough), 凹线. (various references)

Czech

vyžlábkovat, rýha (Dent, furrow, score, stria), drážka (channel, rabbet, socket), žlábek (cannelure, furrow, rabbet). (various references)

Danish

glider (furniture glide, furniture slide, glide, slider), udsparing (dimple for a shot pin, notch, slot), sulcus (furrow, sulcus), spor (track), sidefals (gusset, recess), rille (bruised, furrow, grooving, score, scratch, sulcus), ridse (abrasion, scratch), rende (apron, channel, chute, cutting, diversion cut, drain, duct, furrow, glass receiver, grip, gut, gutter, lead, rill, scoop, sulcus, tin, tray, tray bar, trench, trough), not (cotter, dimple for a shot pin, feather, key, milled slot, notch, peg, seine fishing net, seine net, slot, spline), løbespor (ball spunt), løbebane (ball spunt), indvendig rømning af spiralnoter (internal broaching of helical grooves), fure (channel, duct, furrow, ploughed furrow, rill, sulcus, trench), fals i sidemur (recess), bukke (common bogbean, crease, marsh buckbean, marsh trefoil, score). (various references)

Dutch

groef (ditch, furrow, hole, pit, slot, wrinkle), groeve (ditch, grave, hole, pit, tomb), gleuf (slot), rits (zipper), inwendig brootsen van spiraalgroeven (internal broaching of helical grooves), lijnvormige insnijding (score), muursponning (recess), rillen (quiver, shiver, tremble), wormschijf (helical, wheel), roterend (crease, rotational, score), slijpgroef (score), slijpril (score), spaangroef (chip groove, flute, gash), spoedvormige schijf (helical, wheel), sulcus (furrow, sulcus), naaldschuif. (various references)

Farsi 

کانال (Conduit, Cut, Gullet), کارجاری ویکنواخت , گودی (Delve, Dent, Depth, Dint, Lacuna, Valley), عادت زندگی , خیاره , خطانداختن (Rut), خط (Character, Fascia, Hand, Handwriting, Penmanship, Ruck, Stoppage, Streak), خان تفنگ , جدول (List, Schedule, Table, Tableau), شیاردارکردن (Channel, Gutter, Rib, Ridge, Rut), شیار (List, Rake, Ruck, Thread, Valley). (various references)

Finnish

uurtaa (cut, furrow, hollow, scote), uurre (furrow), ura (career, channel, course), ruuviuran aventaminen (internal broaching of helical grooves, internal thread broaching, rifling), nuutti (score), lastu-ura (chip groove, flute, gash), kierreuran aventaminen (internal broaching of helical grooves). (various references)

French

strie, rainurer, rainure (grooving), rainer, gorge (overflow groove, sprew groove), cannelure. (various references)

German

rille (flute, furrow, glyph, score, slot), riefe (channel, flute, stria), nuten (cut a keyway in, flute, rabbet, slot), Nut (furrow, notch, rabbet). (various references)

Greek 

αυλάκι (channel, ditch, drain, furrow, rut, trough, wake), αυλακώνω (channel, corrugate, furrow). (various references)

Hebrew 

מנהג (conduct, custom, habit, manner, order, usage, way), תלם (furrow, ridge, rut), חריץ (crack, crevice, ditch, fissure, flute, fluting, jag, notch, rut, score, slit, slot), הרגל (custom, habit, habituation, wont). (various references)

Hungarian

vájat (channel, chase, cove, furrow, gorge, gouge, gutter, hollow, nick, score, slot), rovátka (chase, cut, gouge, indent, jag, Nick, notch, notching, score, scotch, snick), barázda (chase, furrow, gouge, gutter, lining, open furrow). (various references)

Indonesian

galur (channel, furrow), runut (furrow, trace), mengalur (flute), lekuk (concave, crook, dent). (various references)

Italian

solco (chute, furrow, gully, gutter, line, rut), scanalatura (channel, flute, fluting, gorge, rabbet, seam, slot). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

グループ分離キャラクタ (gloomy, groomer, group interview, group separator, to conspire). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

グルーヴ . (various references)

Korean 

강저. (various references)

Manx

giarrey clash ayn, clash (channel, cleft, gorge, hollow, open furrow, race, rubbish tip, trench, vale). (various references)

Norwegian

spor, fure (furrow). (various references)

Pig Latin

oovegray.(various references)

Portuguese

vinco (fold, ruckle, wrinkle), sulco (cannelure, rut, wake, wrinkle), ranhura (cannelure, chase, fillister, furrow, gouge, rabbet, slit, slot). (various references)

Romanian

ghintui (rifle, rivet, thread), şanţ (channel, chase, dike, ditch, flute, Fosse, gully, gutter, moat, notch, rut, trench), canela (flute), canelurã (channel, flute, lug, notch, rifle, rut), fãgaş (channel, furrow, gully, path, rut, track, track of wheels, trend), fãlţui (rabbet, sheet), şãnţui, hârtop (hollow), uluci, jgheab (chase, conduct, cradle, eaves, flume, flute, gully, gutter, horse-pond, jet, notch, rifle, sewer, shoe, spout, trough, valley), obicei (consuetude, convention, custom, dead letter, habit, habitude, manner, observance, practice, praxis, rut, tradition, usage, use, way, wont), rutinã (experience, routine, rut), scobi (cave, dig, gutter, hew out, hole, hollow, Peck, pick, recess), scobiturã (dimple, excavation, flute, hole, hollow, hollowness, lug, trough), uluc (flume, trough), falţ (rabbet). (various references)

Russian 

ручей (bourn, brook, creek, floss, nullah, rivulet, run, stream, watercourse), рутина (routine), канавка (chase, gutter, slot), калибр (caliber, calibre, calliper, ga, gauge, pass, pattern), выемка (cannelure, coulisse, cutting, gab, gutter, indent, indentation, notch, notching, recess, roach, ward), нарезка (notch, rifling), желобок (coulisse, flute, rabbet, riffle, slot), бороздка (stria, striae), борозда (furrow, rut, slot, stria), паз (channel, chase, gutter, mortise, notch, recess, slot), делать выемку (notch). (various references)

Scottish

clais (a furrow, ditch, furrow). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

užlebiti (rabbet, rifle), kolosek (gauge, railway, rut, track), žleb (baffle, fillister, gutter, rabbet). (various references)

Spanish

surco (furrow, line, stria), ranura (cut, flume, nick, notch, pod, rabbet, spline), estría (flute, score, stretchmark, stria), acanaladura (channeling, corrugation, score). (various references)

Swedish

ränna (channel, chute, furrow, gully, gutter, run, shoot, sluice, thrust), räffla (chamfer, channel, furrow, knurl, mill, rib, rifle, rifling). (various references)

Thai

สนุกสนาน (fun, gamesome, jolly, joyous, lark, revel), ทำเป็นร่อง (gutter, list), งานประจำ, ร่อง. (various references)

Turkish

gelenek (custom, observance, tradition, way), yiv açmak (flute, rifle), yiv (chamfer, chase, flute, rabbet, riffle, slot, spline, stria), uğraşmak (agonize, attack, be at war with, be occupied in doing, be occupied with doing, come at, contend, cope, deal, endeavor, endeavour, engage in, exert oneself, fight, get at, go in for, grapple, haze, labor, labour, make an effort, mess around with, mess with, moil, monkey around with, monkey with, pick on, push, seek, set to, strive, strive against, struggle, tackle, toil, try hard, tug, tussle, work away, work hard, wrestle), saban izi (furrow), oluk açmak (chamfer, gutter, rabbet, riffle), oluk (chamfer, channel, chase, chute, conduit, flute, gangway, gouge, gully, gully drain, gutter, rabbet, riffle, runnel, slot, spline, throat, trough), mükemmel şey (dainty, ideal, prime, snorter), harika şey (a perfect dream, hot stuff, miracle, pippin, stunner), dalmak (barge, bathe, be absorbed in, be lost in thought, be wraped up in, bounce, break, break into, conk, contemplate, cut into, dip, dive, drop, drowse off, duck, engross, jut into, lose oneself in, meditate, muse, nip in, pitch into, plummet, plunge, pore, pore over, rush in, rush into, sail in, sink, sink into), alay etmek (deride, flout, gibe, gird at, gird at smb., give smb. a roasting, guy, hold in derision, ironize, jape, jeer, jeer at, jibe, jolly, Josh, laugh at, make a game of, make a jest of, make fun of, make merry over, mock, poke fun, poke fun at smb., pull smb.'s leg, razz, ridicule, roast, rot, scoff, take the mickey out of smb., taunt), adet (bleeding, consuetude, convention, courses, custom, element, fashion, flow, fragment, habit, item, menses, menstruation, mounthly courses, mounthly periods, number, numeral, particle, period, praxis, routine, sum, the usual thing, total, tradition, usage, use, wont), çizmek (construct, cross out, depict, describe, draw, limn, line, mark up, picture, plough, plow, rule, scar, score, scratch, set, trace, write off), çizgi (bar, drawing, furrow, grain, line, ruling, score, scratch, stria, stripe, wheal). (various references)

Ukrainian

рутина (routine, rut), рівчак, робити пази (chamfer, notch), жолобок (pocket, rabbet), паз (chamfer, joggle, mortice, mortise, notch, rabbet, rebate, slot, socket). (various references)

Vietnamese 

thói quen (habit, habitude, ply, praxis), thói cũ, thông đồng (collusive), bén gót, đường xoi (scarf, scarves). (various references)

Welsh

rhych (furrow, rut), rhigol (rut), rhiciog (notched, ribbed), rhic (nick, notch). (various references)

canalibus, canalis. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "groove": grooved, groover, groovers, grooves. (additional references)

Words ending with "groove": microgroove, regroove. (additional references)

Words containing "groove": microgrooves, regrooved, regrooves. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Groove" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Agrosoke, Egorov, Egorova, goove, Gorkova, Gorohova, grbovic, Grohe, groje, groke, groo, grooe, groome, Groote, groov, grooven, Groovey, grosve, grov, groven, grovet, grovey, gruve, Gurov, Gurtovoi, roove, rosove, Ugromov. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: grove.

-2 letters: ergo, goer, gore, ogre, over, rove.

-3 letters: ego, erg, goo, gor, ore, reg, rev, roe, veg, voe.

-4 letters: er, go, oe, or, re.

+1 letter: grooved, groover, grooves, overdog.

+2 letters: governor, groovers, groovier, overdogs, overgoad, overgrow, overlong, regroove.

+3 letters: governors, grooviest, moviegoer, overdoing, overgoads, overgrown, overgrows, regrooved, regrooves.

+4 letters: ergonovine, moviegoers, overbought, overcoming, overdosage, overdosing, overgoaded, overgovern, overgrowth, overhoping, overjoying, overloving, overvoting, regrooving, virologies.

+5 letters: aboveground, ergonovines, governorate, microgroove, noncoverage, overblowing, overboiling, overbooking, overcooking, overcooling, overdosages, overemoting, overflowing, overgoading, overgoverns, overgrowing, overgrowths, overholding, overloading, overlooking, overlording, overprogram, oversmoking, oversoaking, overthought, overtoiling, overtopping, overvoltage, overworking, overwrought, rotogravure.