Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: groove
IPA transcription: [ɡɹ'uv]
noun meaning of the word
  • 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.