Groove

Noun

 * 1) 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.
 * 2) A fixed routine
 * 3) The middle of the strike zone in baseball where a pitch is most easily hit
 * 4) A pronounced, enjoyable rhythm

Derived terms

 * groovy
 * tongue and groove

Verb

 * 1) To create, dance to, or enjoy rhythmic music.
 * I was just starting to groove to the band, when we had to leave.

Thesaurus
abysm, abyss, alameda, arroyo, ascender, autolithograph, back, bastard type, be a printmaker, beard, beat, beaten path, beaten track, belly, berm, bevel, bezel, bicycle path, black letter, boardwalk, body, bore, box canyon, breach, break, bridle path, bureaucracy, bureaucratism, burrow, canal, canalize, canyon, cap, capital, carve, case, catwalk, cavity, chamfer, channel, chap, character, chase, chasm, check, chimney, chink, chinoiserie, chisel, cleave, cleft, cleuch, clough, col, corrugate, corrugation, coulee, couloir, counter, crack, cranny, crease, crevasse, crevice, cribble, crimp, crosshatch, cut, cut apart, cwm, dado, daily grind, defile, dell, delve, descender, dig, dig out, dike, ditch, donga, draw, dredge, drill, drive, em, en, enchase, engrave, engraving, esplanade, excavate, excavation, face, fastwalk, fat-faced type, fault, feet, fissure, flaw, flume, flute, fluting, font, foot pavement, footpath, footway, fracture, furrow, gap, gape, garden path, gash, glyph, goffer, gorge, gouge, gouge out, grave, grind, grub, gulch, gulf, gully, hatch, hiking trail, hole, incise, incision, inscribe, italic, jog trot, joint, kloof, leak, letter, ligature, line, lithograph, logotype, lower, lower case, majuscule, make prints, mall, mark, microgroove, mine, minuscule, moat, nick, notch, nullah, open, opening, pace, parade, pass, passage, path, pathway, pi, pica, pleat, plow, point, prado, print, promenade, public walk, quarry, rabbet, ravine, red tape, red-tapeism, rent, rifle, rifling, rift, rime, rive, roman, rote, round, routine, ruck, run, runway, rupture, rut, sans serif, sap, scissure, scoop, scoop out, score, scrabble, scrape, scratch, script, sculpture, seam, shank, shoulder, shovel, sidewalk, sink, slit, slot, small cap, small capital, spade, split, squirrel cage, stamp, stem, stipple, streak, stria, striate, striation, sulcation, sulcus, tool, towing path, towpath, track, trail, treadmill, trench, trottoir, trough, tunnel, type, type body, type class, type lice, typecase, typeface, typefounders, typefoundry, upper case, valley, void, wadi, walk, walkway, well-worn groove, wrinkle

Etymology
From groof:, grofe:, from  *undefined:, from, from. Cognate with groef:, groeve:,  Grube:, No grov:,  grafan:. More at.

Noun

 * Czech: rýha, žlábek , zářez , drážka (of an LP album)
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Italian:, , , , ,


 * Latin:
 * Portuguese: ranhura
 * Russian: желобок (želobók), паз (paz) , вырез (výr'ez) , нарез (nar'éz) in a rifle, колея (kol'ejá)  in the road
 * Spanish:


 * Czech: rutina, vyjetá kolej fig
 * Italian: ,
 * Portuguese:


 * Russian:, ,
 * Spanish:, hábito


 * Italian:


 * Spanish: tonadilla


 * : గాడి (gaadi) (1, 2)

Anagrams

 * go over, overgo