groove
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
entertainment
hobbies
lifestyle
mining
motor-racing
music
racing
sports
Etymology: From Middle English grov, grove, groof, grofe (“cave; pit; mining shaft”), probably from Old Norse gróf (“pit”) or from Middle Dutch groeve (“furrow, ditch”), both from Proto-West Germanic *grōbu, from Proto-Germanic *grōbō (“groove, furrow”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrebʰ- (“to dig, scrape, bury”).
Cognate with Cimbrian gruuba (“gorge, ravine”), Dutch groef, groeve (“groove; pit, grave”), German Grube (“ditch, pit”), Luxembourgish Grouf (“pit, mine”), Mòcheno gruab (“mine”), Icelandic gróf (“pit, hollow”), Gothic 𐌲𐍂𐍉𐌱𐌰 (grōba, “foxhole”), Serbo-Croatian grèbati (“scratch, dig”). Related to Old English grafan (“to dig”). More at grave.
Inflected forms:
form: grooves
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: grooves
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: grooving
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: grooved
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: grooved
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: 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 tire groove, or a geological channel or depression.
pos: noun
gloss: A fixed routine.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
The gregarious trifling of life in the social groove.
His counterpart Neil Warnock got his tactics spot on as Chelsea struggled to get into any sort of groove in the first half.
gloss: The middle of the strike zone in baseball where a pitch is most easily hit.
pos: noun
gloss: A pronounced, enjoyable rhythm.
pos: noun
examples: 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
Let the music play / He won't get away / This groove he can't ignore
Get into the groove / Boy, you've got to prove / Your love to me / Get up on your feet / Yeah, step to the beat
gloss: A good feeling (often as in the groove).
pos: noun
tags: dated
informal
examples: 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
How could he be expected to make music that put the audience in a groove, he reasoned, if he wasn't grooving himself?
gloss: A shaft or excavation.
pos: noun
gloss: The optimal route around the track, or any of several such routes.
pos: noun
gloss: To cut a groove or channel in; to form into channels or grooves; to furrow.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails, whereon my soul is grooved to run.
gloss: To perform, dance to, or enjoy rhythmic music.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: I was just starting to groove to the band when we had to leave.
Well, I got my way of groovin' / Sitting down right in my seat / I get soul satisfaction / Yeah, without jumpin' up and down on my feet
Derived words: back in the groove
engroove
Galvayne's groove
get one's groove on
groovebox
groove fricative
groove-joint pliers
grooveless
groovelike
groovemeister
groove metal
groovesome
groovester
groovetastic
groovework
groovitude
groovy
infraorbital groove
ingroove
in the groove
locked groove
microgroove
nanogroove
polygroove
porn groove
pregroove
rare groove
tongue and groove
grooved
groove on
groover
regroove
ungrooved
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