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noun

Groove n.

A furrow, channel, or long hollow, such as may be formed by cutting, molding, grinding, the wearing force of flowing water, or constant travel; a depressed way; a worn path; a rut.

Hence: The habitual course of life, work, or affairs; fixed routine. "The gregarious trifling of life in the social groove."

(Mining) A shaft or excavation. (Prov. Eng.)

verb

Groove v. t. (past & past part. grooved; pres. part. groving) To cut a groove or channel in; to form into channels or grooves; to furrow.

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"Groove" Quotes from Famous Books

... south aisle, and another very beautiful one known as the Abbess's door at the extreme east end of the wall of the south nave aisle, in Norman style (see p. 26). The mouldings round the head are richly ornamented, and two twisted columns stand on each side of the door. Unfortunately a slanting groove has been cut through the upper mouldings of it. It is said that at one time a stonemason's shed stood here, probably the mason employed after the purchase of the church by the town, to keep the building in repair. We may ...

— Bell's Cathedrals: A Short Account of Romsey Abbey • Thomas Perkins

... his longings for a wider experience gradually faded away, for it is seldom indeed that a Leigh boy goes to sea—the Leigh men being as a race devoted to their homes, and regarding with grave disapproval any who strike out from the regular groove. ...

— A Chapter of Adventures • G. A. Henty

... of the large blade of his penknife a nick, triangular in shape, which left an unmistakable groove in the wood every time he cut into it. That little groove shows, to the naked eye, on the end of the shortened slat and on the handle of the dagger. ...

— No Clue - A Mystery Story • James Hay

... posts close together, and with a long flat board at right angles at the foot of the posts, and all painted a bright red. At the further end of the boards was a miniature basket, and between the two posts, at the top, was a miniature knife which ran up and down in a groove and was drawn by a miniature pulley. Folk who knew said that this was a ...

— The Elusive Pimpernel • Baroness Emmuska Orczy

... in absurd situations and under comically trying circumstances is quite funny enough for him; and if he exaggerates a little and goes beyond the absolute prose of life in the direction of caricature, he never deviates a hair's-breadth from the groove human nature has laid down. There is exaggeration, but no distortion. The most wildly funny people are low comedians of the highest order, whose fun is never forced and never fails; they found themselves on fact, and only burlesque what they have seen in actual life—they never evolve their ...

— Social Pictorial Satire • George du Maurier

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