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Synonyms for groove

Grammar : Noun
Spell : groov
Phonetic Transcription : gruv

Top 10 synonyms for groove
Other synonyms for the word groove

Définition of groove

Origin :
  • c.1400, "cave, mine, pit" (late 13c. in place names), from a Scandinavian source, cf. Old Norse grod "pit," or from Middle Dutch groeve "furrow, ditch," both from Proto-Germanic *grobo (cf. Old Norse grof "brook, river bed," Old High German gruoba "ditch," Gothic groba "pit, cave," Old English græf "ditch"), related to grave (n.). Sense of "long, narrow channel or furrow" is 1650s. Meaning "spiral cut in a phonograph record" is from 1902. Figurative sense of "routine" is from 1842, often deprecatory at first, "a rut."
  • noun channel, indentation
  • noun daily routine
Example sentences :
  • Cover the tongue thoroughly with glue, and also put some on the inside of the groove.
  • Extract from : « Flying Machines » by W.J. Jackman and Thos. H. Russell
  • This will leave a groove into which the tongue will fit easily.
  • Extract from : « Flying Machines » by W.J. Jackman and Thos. H. Russell
  • From this groove, along with the light, came the soft roaring hiss.
  • Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science September 1930 » by Various
  • A groove should be cut in the surface of the eccentric, so that this strap will not slip off.
  • Extract from : « Boys' Book of Model Boats » by Raymond Francis Yates
  • It will be seen that a groove, M, is cut around the piston near the top.
  • Extract from : « Boys' Book of Model Boats » by Raymond Francis Yates
  • You see you have been in this groove all your life, and are unfit for anything else.
  • Extract from : « The Captain of the Pole-Star and Other Tales » by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • They, like other national institutions, are terribly prone to get into a groove.
  • Extract from : « War Letters of a Public-School Boy » by Paul Jones.
  • Cut a groove with a knife around one end to keep the web from slipping off.
  • Extract from : « Spool Knitting » by Mary A. McCormack
  • His mind, acute as it was, yet worked entirely in the groove provided for it.
  • Extract from : « Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) » by Leslie Stephen
  • It is designed to make the dovetailed tongue as well as the groove.
  • Extract from : « Carpentry for Boys » by J. S. Zerbe
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