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noun

Groove n.

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.

Hence: The habitual course of life, work, or affairs; fixed routine. "The gregarious trifling of life in the social groove."

(Mining) A shaft or excavation. (Prov. Eng.)

verb

Groove v. t. (past & past part. grooved; pres. part. groving) To cut a groove or channel in; to form into channels or grooves; to furrow.

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Etymology of 'Groove'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Groove" Quotes from Famous Books

... Freddie in an awed voice. "He's a bit of a nut, that lad, what! He reminds me of the troops of Midian in the hymn. The chappies who prowled and prowled around. I'll bet he's worn a groove in the carpet. Like a jolly old tiger at the Zoo at feeding time. Wouldn't be surprised at any moment to look down and find him biting a piece out ...

— The Little Warrior - (U.K. Title: Jill the Reckless) • P. G. Wodehouse

... which is straight and not concave as it is in Cercoleptes. In the depth of the symphysis and abrupt rounding of the chin the two genera are similar. Cercoleptes, moreover, has a moderately deep groove upon the antero-internal face of the canine, but differs from that of Leptarctus in having an external groove as well. Cercoleptes again resembles Leptarctus in having only three premolars in the lower jaw; the middle one, however, has only a ...

— On The Affinities of Leptarctus primus of Leidy - American Museum of Natural History, Vol. VI, Article VIII, pp. 229-331. • J. L. Wortman

... this winter. But I think you've made a good start with the company, and it's a good company, and I think, from what you've said to-day, and other hints you're given me, that you'd make your mother very happy by writing her that you think you've struck your groove. However!" ...

— Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby and Other Stories • Kathleen Norris

... become fanatical; the atoms of common sense no longer functioned in the accustomed groove. And yet he knew clearly and definitely what he purposed to do, what the future would be. This species of madness cannot properly be attributed to his illness, though its accent might be. For a time he would be the grim Protestant Flagellant, pursuing ...

— The Ragged Edge • Harold MacGrath

... spoke he sprang from his seat, threw his crimson cloak from him, and took his sword from his shoulder. First he set the axes in a row, in a long groove which he had dug for them, and had made straight by line. {162} Then he stamped the earth tight round them, and everyone was surprised when they saw him set them up so orderly, though he had never seen anything ...

— The Odyssey • Homer

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