groove

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Pronunciation

• (British) IPA: /ɡɹuːv/
• (America) IPA: /ɡɹuv/

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.
   • J. Morley

     The gregarious trifling of life in the social groove.

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.

Translations

• French: rainure, sillon
• German: Rille, Nut
• Italian: scanalatura, incavo, solco, canale, galleria, pozzo
• Portuguese: ranhura, sulco
• Russian: желобо́к
• Spanish: ranura, acanaladura, canal, estría, hendidura, surco

Translations

• French: routine
• German: gewöhnlicher Gang, üblicher Ablauf, übliche Routine, fester Rhythmus, eingefahrenen Gleise
• Italian: routine, tran-tran
• Portuguese: rotina
• Russian: рути́на
• Spanish: rutina, hábito

Translations

• French: groove
• German: Groove
• Italian: groove
• Portuguese: groove
• Spanish: tonadilla

Translations

• German: Schacht, Ausschachtung

Verb

groove (grooves, present participle grooving; past and past participle grooved)

1. (transitive) To cut a groove or channel in; to form into channels or grooves; to furrow.
2. (intransitive) To perform, dance to, or enjoy rhythmic music.

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

Translations

• German: einkerben, auskehlen, nuten, rillen
• Italian: solcare, arare, erpicare

Translations

• German: grooven

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