groove

Εννοια (English)

Noun

1. A long, narrow channel or depression; e.g., such a slot cut into a hard material to provide a location for an engineering component, a tyre groove, or a geological channel or depression.
2. A fixed routine.
3. The middle of the strike zone in baseball where a pitch is most easily hit.
4. A pronounced, enjoyable rhythm.
5. (informal) A good feeling (often as in the groove).
6. A shaft or excavation.
7. A racing line, a path across the racing circuit's surface that a racecar will usually track on. (Note: There may be multiple grooves on any particular circuit or segment of circuit)

Verb

1. To cut a groove or channel in; to form into channels or grooves; to furrow.
2. To perform, dance to, or enjoy rhythmic music.

Synonyms

furrow

rut

channel

slot

notch

fluting

chamfer

flute

🪈

trough

rifling

trench

nick

routine

mortise

dent

rabbet

ditch

gutter

indentation

chase

rifle

track

cavity

vallecula

indent

duct

pass

rout

stripe

wrinkle

chisel

hole

🕳️

cleft

hollow

gouge

canal

manger

stria

pit

sulcus

bevel

quirk

raceway

rebate

recess

rib

riffle

row

runway

scarf

🧣

scour

slideway

slit

sluice

socket

spout

streak

striation

tank

trace

vessel

wale

watercourse

welt

wheal

cannelure

depression

line of fate

driving slot

ring groove

splineway

orderly routine

scoop channel

polw groove

aperture

lantern ring groove

ark

arroyo

beard

calibre

career

carve

cavern

cavetto

character

chip

coffin

⚰️

concave

concavity

corrugate

corrugation

coulisse

cut

dig

engrave

excavation

file

fillister

fissure

flume

gain

gash

gorge

habit

incise

inscribe

kerf

lancing

launder

line

lineage

mine

moat

penstock

pocket

practice

Προφέρεται ως (IPA)

/ɡɹuːv/

Ετυμολογία (English)

Inherited from Μέσα Αγγλικά: grov

Inherited from Παλαιά Αγγλικά: grōf

Cognate with Ολλανδικά: groef

Cognate with Γερμανικά: Grube

Cognate with Νορβηγικά: grov

Cognate with Σερβοκροατικά: grèbati

Cognate with Παλαιά Αγγλικά: grafan

In summary

From Middle English grov, grove, groof, grofe (“cave; pit; mining shaft”), from Old English grōf (“trench, furrow, something dug”), from Proto-West Germanic *grōbu, from Proto-Germanic *grōbō (“groove, furrow”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrebʰ- (“to dig, scrape, bury”). Cognate with Dutch groef, groeve (“groove; pit, grave”), German Grube (“ditch, pit”), Norwegian grov (“brook, riverbed”), Serbo-Croatian grèbati (“scratch, dig”). Directly descended from Old English grafan (“to dig”). More at grave.