groove

pronunciation

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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)
a settled and monotonous routine that is hard to escape
(anatomy) any furrow or channel on a bodily structure or part
Verb:

make a groove in, or provide with a groove
hollow out in the form of a furrow or groove

Word Origin

groove (n.): c. 1400, "cave; mine; pit dug in the earth" (late 13c. in place names), from a Scandinavian source such as Old Norse grod "pit," or from Middle Dutch groeve "furrow, ditch" (Modern Dutch groef), both from Proto-Germanic *grobo (cognates: Old Norse grof "brook, river bed," Old High German gruoba "ditch," German Grube "a pit, hole, ditch, grave," Gothic groba "pit, cave," Old English græf "ditch, grave"), from PIE root *ghrebh- (2) "to dig, bury, scratch" (see grave (n.)). Sense of "long, narrow channel or furrow," especially as cut by a tool, is 1650s. Meaning "spiral cut in a phonograph record" is from 1902. Figurative sense of "routine" is from 1842, often deprecatory at first, "a rut."

groove (v.): 1680s, "make a groove, cut a channel in," from groove (n.). Slang sense is from 1930s (see groovy). Related: Grooved; grooving.

2. But if a person has the newly discovered amino acid variants , his cd4 cells will be especially good at displaying pieces of hiv in a binding groove , or pocket of their outer coat .

3. They look like normal telephones except for the groove down one side to swipe cards , the roll of receipt paper perched on top , and the small lcd screen used to navigate the transaction process .

5. When you 're ready to type , you remove the ipad 2 and stand it up in a groove above the top row of keys , in either a horizontal or vertical position .