Synonyms:
groove, channel
Meaning: a long narrow furrow cut either by a natural process (such as erosion) or by a tool (as e.g. a groove in a phonograph record)
Synonyms:
rut, groove
Meaning: a settled and monotonous routine that is hard to escape; "they fell into a conversational rut"
Usage examples
A lummix that hasn't learned how to push a strip o' zinc along a groove!"
The left wheel followed back along the groove its flange had cut in the tie.
Then the "rolling stone" and the groove in which it was placed is very interesting.
The tie was wedged diagonally across the track, and the flange had cut a deep groove in it.
This was something like a gigantic grindstone which rolled in the groove and was large enough to cover the opening when the tomb was closed.
And though Jude may have had little chance of becoming a scholar by these rough and ready means, he was in the way of getting into the groove he wished to follow.
They match as perfectly as the grain of a block of wood when sawn asunder--showing that these coal beds were formed at an age long before the water cut this sinuous groove.
As another outcome of this change of groove he visited on Sundays all the churches within a walk, and deciphered the Latin inscriptions on fifteenth-century brasses and tombs.
His alert eye caught sight of a rawhide rope staked to the water's brink, which led away toward a small round hut in the distance. The ground was trodden into a deep groove beneath the loosely drawn rawhide rope.
The Lycosa surrounds the mouth of her shaft with a simple parapet, a mere collection of tiny pebbles, sticks and silk; the others fix a movable door to theirs, a round shutter with a hinge, a groove and a set of bolts.