groove

1. 1.

   make a groove in, or provide with a groove

   “groove a vinyl record”

   Broaderincise

   Narrowerdadomill
2. 2.

   hollow out in the form of a furrow or groove

   “furrow soil”

   Synonymsfurrowrut

   Broaderdig

Other forms of groove

plural

grooves·

past tense

grooved·

present participle

grooving·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about groove

What does groove mean?

groove means "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)". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in groove?

groove has 1 syllable: groove. In IPA it is /ˈɡɹuv/.

What is another word for groove?

Close synonyms include channel, rut, vallecula, furrow, rut. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is groove a common word?

groove is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.