# groove
## English
### Etymology

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.

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ɡɹuːv/
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* (US) IPA: /ɡɹuv/
* Rhymes: -uːv

### Noun

groove (plural grooves)
* 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.
    Antonym: ridge
* A fixed routine.
** 1859 December 13, Charles Dickens, “The Mortals in the House”, in Charles Dickens, editor, The Haunted House. The Extra Christmas Number of All the Year Round […], volume II, London: […] C[harles] Whiting, […], →OCLC, page 4:Through these distresses, the Odd Girl was cheerful and exemplary. But within four hours after dark we had got into a supernatural groove, and the Odd Girl had seen “Eyes,” and was in hysterics.
** 1873, John Morley, Rousseau:The gregarious trifling of life in the social groove.
** 2011 October 23, Becky Ashton, “QPR 1 - 0 Chelsea”, in BBC Sport‎:His counterpart Neil Warnock got his tactics spot on as Chelsea struggled to get into any sort of groove in the first half.
* The middle of the strike zone in baseball where a pitch is most easily hit.
* (music) A pronounced, enjoyable rhythm.
** 1979, “Rapper's Delight”, performed by The Sugarhill Gang:Now, what you hear is not a test, I'm rapping to the beat / And me, the groove, and my friends are gonna try to move your feet
** 1983, Chris Barbosa, Ed Chisolm (lyrics and music), “Let the Music Play”, performed by Shannon:Let the music play / He won't get away / This groove he can't ignore
** 1985, Stephen Bray, Madonna (lyrics and music), “Into the Groove”, in Like a Virgin, performed by Madonna:Get into the groove / Boy, you've got to prove / Your love to me / Get up on your feet / Yeah, step to the beat
* (dated, informal) A good feeling (often as in the groove).
** 1980, Earth, Wind & Fire (lyrics and music), “Turn It Into Something Good”, in Faces (Earth, Wind & Fire album):You can't hide forever, just decide to make it better / Turn it into something good / Remember, you can choose not to lose / Find your groove and be a winner
** 2010, Jan Reid, Shawn Sahm, Texas Tornado: The Times and Music of Doug Sahm, page 57:How could he be expected to make music that put the audience in a groove, he reasoned, if he wasn't grooving himself?
* (mining) A shaft or excavation.
* (motor racing) 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)

#### Derived terms

* back in the groove
* Galvayne's groove
* get one's groove on
* groove fricative
* groove-joint pliers
* grooveless
* groovelike
* groove metal
* groovework
* groovy
* infraorbital groove
* in the groove
* locked groove
* porn groove
* rare groove
* tongue and groove

#### Translations

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### Verb

groove (third-person singular simple present grooves, present participle grooving, simple past and past participle grooved)
* (transitive) To cut a groove or channel in; to form into channels or grooves; to furrow.
** 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 37, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 186:The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails, whereon my soul is grooved to run.
* (intransitive) To perform, dance to, or enjoy rhythmic music.
    I was just starting to groove to the band when we had to leave.

#### Derived terms

* groove on
* grooved
* groover
* ungrooved

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* go over, overgo

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from English.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡʁuv/

### Noun

groove m (plural grooves)
* groove (fixed routine)

## Spanish
### Etymology

Borrowed from English.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɡɾub/ [ˈɡɾuβ̞]
* Rhymes: -ub

### Noun

groove m (plural grooves)
* groove (music style)