groove : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: groove	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for groove
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
groove n 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) Synonym(s): groove, channel a settled and monotonous routine that is hard to escape; "they fell into a conversational rut" Synonym(s): rut, groove (anatomy) any furrow or channel on a bodily structure or part Synonym(s): groove, vallecula v make a groove in, or provide with a groove; "groove a vinyl record" hollow out in the form of a furrow or groove; "furrow soil" Synonym(s): furrow, rut, groove
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Groove \Groove\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Grooved}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Groving}.] To cut a groove or channel in; to form into channels or grooves; to furrow.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Groove \Groove\, n. [D. groef, groeve; akin to E. grove. See {Grove}.] 1. 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. 2. Hence: The habitual course of life, work, or affairs; fixed routine. The gregarious trifling of life in the social groove. --J. Morley. 3. [See {Grove}.] (Mining) A shaft or excavation. [Prov. Eng.]