groove
A groove is an indentation or rut in something — like the grooves on an old record.
Groove is rooted in an old Dutch word for “furrow” or “ditch.” And that’s just what a groove is: a carved out line, like wheel ruts in a muddy road or the narrow opening that a sliding door moves in. If you can’t “find your groove,” you feel off track and out of whack. But when you’re “in the groove,” everything is working smoothly and you’ve found a good routine. And if someone says “let’s groove!”, they want to dance.
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)
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dadoa rectangular groove cut into a board so that another piece can fit into it
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flute, flutinga groove or furrow in cloth etc (particularly a shallow concave groove on the shaft of a column)
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quirka narrow groove beside a beading
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rabbet, rebatea rectangular groove made to hold two pieces together
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tracka groove on a phonograph recording
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ruta groove or furrow (especially one in soft earth caused by wheels)
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stria, striationany 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
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washoutthe channel or break produced by erosion of relatively soft soil by water
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depression, impression, imprinta concavity in a surface produced by pressing
(anatomy) any furrow or channel on a bodily structure or part
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costal groovegroove between the ribs where the nerves and blood vessels are
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fissure(anatomy) a long narrow slit or groove that divides an organ into lobes
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sulcus(anatomy) any of the narrow grooves in an organ or tissue especially those that mark the convolutions on the surface of the brain
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hilum, hilus(anatomy) a depression or fissure where vessels or nerves or ducts enter a bodily organ
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body partany part of an organism such as an organ or extremity
a settled and monotonous routine that is hard to escape
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modus operandi, routinean unvarying or habitual method or procedure
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modus operandi, routine
make a groove in, or provide with a groove
hollow out in the form of a furrow or groove