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Another word for groove

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Noun

  1. A habitual, laborious, often tiresome course of action

      1. (Informal) A student who studies very hard
      2. Long, difficult, tedious work or study; drudgery
      3. (Informal) A laborious task, routine, or study:
      1. Any monotonous round of duties, work, etc. in which one seems to make no progress
      2. A kind of mill wheel turned by the weight of persons treading steps arranged around its circumference: formerly used as an instrument of prison discipline
      3. A monotonous routine or set of tasks.
      1. An uninspired routine or pattern of behavior that one continues unthinkingly or because change is difficult.
      2. A fixed routine, procedure, line of conduct, thought or feeling (See also rutter)
      3. A dull routine
      1. The practice of such activities or procedures:
      2. A scripted piece of entertainment, especially in a nightclub or theater:
      3. A set of customary or unchanging and often mechanically performed activities or procedures:
    See also:

    usual

Idioms:

    groove on

  1. To like or enjoy enthusiastically, often excessively

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Another word for groove

Noun
      1. An anatomical depression or crevice, as between the hemispheres of the brain.
      2. A groove or furrow in a plant or animal structure, as the depression between the epiglottis and the base of the tongue
      1. A series of curls, as of wool fibers.
      2. A person who tricks or coerces others into service as sailors or soldiers.
      3. A crease or bend.
      1. (Cricket) Any of the lines that mark off the station of the batsman or of the bowler
      2. A line, mark, or ridge made by folding and pressing cloth, paper, etc.
      3. (Sports) In hockey, an area marked in front of the goal in which an offensive player can score a goal only if the puck reaches the area before the player does.
      1. Alternative form of deech.
      2. A long narrow trench or furrow dug in the ground, as for irrigation, drainage, or a boundary line.
      1. A state of perplexity or anxiety; confusion; bother; agitation.
      2. A wrinkle or small fold made by puckering
      3. A fold or wrinkle.
      1. A heavy cotton fabric with a piled, velvety surface, ribbed vertically
      2. A road made of logs laid down crosswise.
      1. The state of being corrugated.
      2. The act or process of corrugating.
      3. Any of the parallel ridges or grooves of a corrugated surface
      1. The grooves formed by narrow pleats in cloth, as in a ruffle.
      2. (Architecture) A decoration consisting of parallel, normally vertical, flutes (grooves) incised into the surface
      3. (--- Architecture) A decorative motif consisting of a series of uniform, usually vertical flutes, as those incised in the surface of a column.
      1. A channel at the edge of a street or road for carrying off surface water.
      2. A channel along or under the eaves of a roof, to carry off rainwater
      3. A narrow channel along the side of a road or street, to carry off water, as to a sewer
      1. A furrow or groove, as in a column.
      2. A beveled edge or corner, esp. one cut at a 45° angle
      3. A flat surface made by cutting off the edge or corner of a block of wood or other material.
      1. One of a series of curved projections forming an ornamental border.
      2. Any of a family (Pectinidae) of bivalves with two deeply grooved, convex shells and an earlike wing on each side of the hinge, that swims by rapidly snapping its shells together to expel water in a jetlike manner
      3. Any of a series of curves, circle segments, projections, etc. forming an ornamental edge on cloth, lace, etc.
      1. A cut or tear, esp. one that is long and straight
      2. A long, straight, narrow cut or opening.
      1. A notch, as in the edge of a leaf.
      2. A deep notch, as in the edge of a leaf
      3. (Medicine) A cut into a body tissue or organ, especially one made during surgery.
      1. A regularly recurring condition of fertility during which breeding occurs in certain mammals, especially deer and various other ungulates:
      2. A groove, furrow, or track, esp. one made in the ground by the passage of wheeled vehicles
      3. A fixed routine, procedure, line of conduct, thought or feeling (See also rutter)
      1. A series of curls, as of wool fibers.
      2. A person who tricks or coerces others into service as sailors or soldiers.
      3. A crease or bend.
      1. (Obs.) Plowed land
      2. A long, narrow, shallow trench made in the ground by a plow.
      3. A rut, groove, or narrow depression:
      1. Such a cut used for keeping a record.
      2. A concave or V-shaped cut or indentation in an edge or across a surface
      3. A narrow pass with steep sides; defile; gap
      1. The San Fernando Valley in southern California.
      2. An extensive area of land drained or irrigated by a river system.
      3. An elongated lowland between ranges of mountains, hills, or other uplands, often having a river or stream running along the bottom.
      1. Any of the long, narrow lines once perceived to be on the surface of the planet Mars as seen through earth telescopes: at one time thought by some to be actual canals but now known to be optical illusions
      2. An artificial waterway or artificially improved river used for travel, shipping, or irrigation.
      3. A river artificially improved by locks, levees, etc. to permit navigation
      1. A wound, usually superficial, inflicted by nails, claws, or something pointed pulled across the skin, etc.
      2. In certain card games, a score of zero
      3. A mark resembling a line that is produced by scratching.
      1. A line drawn or scratched, often to mark a starting point, etc.
      2. The total number of points made by each competitor or side in a contest, either final or at a given stage:
      3. (Sports & Games) A usually numerical record of a competitive event:
      1. (Econ.) A period or condition marked by slackening of business activity, widespread unemployment, falling prices and wages, etc.
      2. (Astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial body below the horizon.
      3. A reduction in physiological vigor or activity:
      1. A chisel with a curved, hollowed blade, for cutting grooves or holes in wood
      2. Any deep groove or hole that is considered a blemish
      3. A chisel with a blade that has a rounded, angled, or troughlike indentation along its length.
      1. A long narrow ditch embanked with its own soil and used for concealment and protection in warfare.
      2. A deep furrow in the ground, ocean floor, etc.
      3. A long, steep-sided valley on the ocean floor.
      1. (Nautical) The wale of a sailing ship which projects beyond the gunwale and to which the shrouds attach via the chains.
      2. The deeper part of a river or harbor, especially a deep navigable passage.
      3. The bed of a running stream, river, etc.

Idioms:

    in-the-groove

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Sentence Examples

  • The width of the groove cut is from 2 to 3 in.

  • A groove of triangular section of 30 in.

  • With a median longitudinal groove between the shields of the skin: Colubridae.

  • In other Euthyneura this groove may close up and form a canal.

  • On the other hand, it is noteworthy that this marsupial retains in its lower jaw the so-called mylo-hyoid groove, which is found in the aforesaid Jurassic mammals.

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