groove

English

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Etymology

From Middle English groof, grofe (“mining shart”), from Old English *grōf (“trench, furrow, something dug”), 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”), Old English grafan (“to dig”). More at grave.

grooves on a vinyl record

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɡɹʊuv/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ɡɹuv/
• Rhymes: -uːv

Noun

groove (plural grooves)

1. 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.
2. A fixed routine
   • (Can we date this quote?) J. Morley

     The gregarious trifling of life in the social groove.

   • 2011 October 23, Becky Ashton, “QPR 1 - 0 Chelsea”, 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.

3. The middle of the strike zone in baseball where a pitch is most easily hit.
4. A pronounced, enjoyable rhythm.
5. (mining) A shaft or excavation.

Derived terms

• groovy
• tongue and groove

Translations

long, narrow channel

• Czech: rýha f, žlábek m, zářez m, drážka f (of an LP album)
• Dutch: inkerving f
• Finnish: ura (fi), uurre
• French: rainure (fr) f
• Georgian: ღარი (ḡari)
• Greek: αυλάκωση (el) (avlákosi)
• Italian: scanalatura f, incavo m, solco (it) m, canale (it) m, galleria (it) f, pozzo (it) m
• Japanese: 溝 (ja) (mizo)
• Latin: canālis (la) m

• Maori: tōanga (in a sill for sliding doors), kowaka
• Polish: koleina (pl) f
• Portuguese: ranhura (pt) f
• Russian: желобок (ru) m (želobók), паз (ru) m (paz), вырез (ru) m (výrez), нарез (ru) m (naréz) (in a rifle), колея (ru) f (kolejá) (in the road)
• Scottish Gaelic: clais f
• Serbo-Croatian: žlijeb (sh) m
• Spanish: ranura (es) f, acanaladura (es) f, canal (es) m, estría (es) f, hendidura (es) f, surco (es) m
• Swedish: spår (sv) n

fixed routine

• Czech: rutina f, vyjetá kolej f (figuratively)
• Finnish: ura (fi)
• Italian: routine f, tran-tran m
• Polish: rutyna (pl) f
• Portuguese: rotina (pt) f

• Russian: рутина (ru) (rutína), привычка (ru) f (privýčka), колея (ru) f (kolejá)
• Scottish Gaelic: clais f
• Serbo-Croatian: kolotečina (sh) f
• Spanish: rutina f, hábito (es) m

pronounced, enjoyable rhythm

• Finnish: gruuvi
• Italian: groove (it) m

• Spanish: tonadilla f

(mining) A shaft or excavation.

• Dutch: schacht

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• Telugu: ^{(please verify)} గాడి (te) (gāḍi) (1, 2)

Verb

groove (third-person singular simple present grooves, present participle grooving, simple past and past participle grooved)

1. To cut a groove or channel in; to form into channels or grooves; to furrow.
2. To create, dance to, or enjoy rhythmic music.

   I was just starting to groove to the band, when we had to leave.

Translations

to cut a furrow into a surface

• Finnish: urittaa
• Maori: whakakōaka, whakaawa

• Serbo-Croatian: žlijebiti (sh) impf

to enjoy rhythmic music

• Esperanto: gruvi

• Finnish: gruuvata

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