Thesaurus: groove

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1. 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.
2. n. Hence: The habitual course of life, work, or affairs; fixed routine.
3. n. A shaft or excavation.
4. v. t. To cut a groove or channel in; to form into channels or grooves; to furrow.
5. 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)
6. n. a settled and monotonous routine that is hard to escape
7. n. (anatomy) any furrow or channel on a bodily structure or part
8. v. make a groove in, or provide with a groove
9. v. hollow out in the form of a furrow or groove
10. 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. Etym: [See Grove.] (Mining) A shaft or excavation. [Prov. Eng.] To cut a groove or channel in; to form into channels or grooves; to furrow.
11. A shaft or excavation. [Prov. Eng.]
12. v:8/n:92 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) n. (anatomy) any furrow or channel on a bodily structure or part v. make a groove in, or provide with a groove