groove

Meanings

Noun

• 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.
• A fixed routine.
• The middle of the strike zone in baseball where a pitch is most easily hit.
• A pronounced, enjoyable rhythm.
• A shaft or excavation.
• A racing line, a path across the racing circuit's surface that a racecar will usually track on. (Note: There may be multiple grooves on any particular circuit or segment of circuit)

Verb

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

Origin

• From Middle English grov, grove, groof, grofe, from Old English grōf, from Proto-West Germanic *grōbu, from Proto-Germanic *grōbō, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrebʰ-. Cognate with Dutch groef, groeve, German Grube, Norwegian grov, Serbo-Croatian grèbati. Directly descended from Old English grafan. More at grave.