noun. A long narrow furrow or channel.

noun. The spiral track cut into a phonograph record for the stylus to follow.

noun. A settled routine.

noun. A situation or an activity that one enjoys or to which one is especially well suited.

noun. A very pleasurable experience.

intransitive verb. To cut a groove or grooves in.

intransitive verb. To throw (a pitch) over the middle of home plate, where it is likely to be hit.

intransitive verb. undefined

intransitive verb. To take great pleasure or satisfaction; enjoy oneself.

intransitive verb. To be affected with pleasurable excitement.

intransitive verb. To react or interact harmoniously.

idiom. (in the groove) Performing exceptionally well.

noun. A pit or hole in the ground; specifically, in mining, a shaft or pit sunk into the earth.

noun. A furrow or long hollow, such as is cut by a tool; a rut or furrow, such as is formed in the ground or in a rock by the action of water; a channel, usually an elongated narrow channel, formed by any agency.

noun. Specifically A long and regular incision cut by a tool, or a narrow channel formed in any way (as in a part of a construction), for something (as another part) to fit into or move in.

noun. Especially— The sunken or plowed channel on the edge of a matched board, to receive the tongue.

noun. The spiral rifling of a gun.

noun. In the wind-chest of an organ, one of the channels or passages into which the wind in admitted by the pallets, and with which the pipes belonging to a given key are directly or indirectly connected. When a given key is struck, its pallet is opened, and the groove filled with compressed air. Whether all the pipes connected with the groove are sounded or not depends on how many stops are drawn. Also grove.

noun. In anatomy and zoology, a natural furrow or longitudinal hollow or impression, especially one which is destined to receive one of the organs in repose: as, the antennal groove; the rostral groove in the Rhynchophora, etc.

noun. Figuratively, a fixed routine; a narrow, unchanging course; a rut: as, life is apt to run in a groove; a groove of thought or of action.

To cut or make a groove or channel in; furrow.

To form as or fix in a groove; make by cutting a groove or grooves.

transitive verb. To cut a groove or channel in; to form into channels or grooves; to furrow.

noun. 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.

noun. Hence: The habitual course of life, work, or affairs; fixed routine.

noun. A shaft or excavation.

noun. 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.

noun. A fixed routine

noun. The middle of the strike zone in baseball where a pitch is most easily hit

noun. A pronounced, enjoyable rhythm

verb. To cut a groove or channel in; to form into channels or grooves; to furrow.

verb. To create, dance to, or enjoy rhythmic music.

noun. (anatomy) any furrow or channel on a bodily structure or part

verb. hollow out in the form of a furrow or groove

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)

verb. make a groove in, or provide with a groove

noun. a settled and monotonous routine that is hard to escape

"On each side of this surface is to be seen a distinct groove, the _preplantar groove_, or _preplantar fissure_, which, commencing behind, between the basilar and retrossal processes, runs horizontally forwards from the angles or wings of the bone, and terminates anteriorly in one of the larger foraminæ."

ambulacral  dental groove  genital groove  germinal groove  gothic groove  

grooved  groovy  groving  tongue and groove  

cut into  delve  dig  modus operandi  routine  

approve  behoove  disapprove  disprove  improve  

bolt  channel  chasm  crack  crater  

abysm  abyss  alameda  arrange  arroyo  

grooved  grooves  grooving