GROOVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does groove mean? 

• GROOVE (noun)
  The noun GROOVE has 3 senses:

1. 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)

2. a settled and monotonous routine that is hard to escape

3. (anatomy) any furrow or channel on a bodily structure or part

  Familiarity information: GROOVE used as a noun is uncommon.

• GROOVE (verb)
  The verb GROOVE has 2 senses:

1. make a groove in, or provide with a groove

2. hollow out in the form of a furrow or groove

  Familiarity information: GROOVE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GROOVE (noun)

Sense 1

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)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

Synonyms:

channel; groove

Hypernyms ("groove" is a kind of...):

depression; impression; imprint (a concavity in a surface produced by pressing)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "groove"):

dado (a rectangular groove cut into a board so that another piece can fit into it)

flute; fluting (a groove or furrow in cloth etc (particularly a shallow concave groove on the shaft of a column))

quirk (a narrow groove beside a beading)

rabbet; rebate (a rectangular groove made to hold two pieces together)

track (a groove on a phonograph recording)

rut (a groove or furrow (especially one in soft earth caused by wheels))

stria; striation (any of a number of tiny parallel grooves such as: the scratches left by a glacier on rocks or the streaks or ridges in muscle tissue)

washout (the channel or break produced by erosion of relatively soft soil by water)

Derivation:

groove (hollow out in the form of a furrow or groove)

groove (make a groove in, or provide with a groove)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A settled and monotonous routine that is hard to escape

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

groove; rut

Context example:

they fell into a conversational rut

Hypernyms ("groove" is a kind of...):

modus operandi; routine (an unvarying or habitual method or procedure)

Sense 3

Meaning:

(anatomy) any furrow or channel on a bodily structure or part

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

groove; vallecula

Hypernyms ("groove" is a kind of...):

body part (any part of an organism such as an organ or extremity)

Domain category:

anatomy; general anatomy (the branch of morphology that deals with the structure of animals)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "groove"):

costal groove (groove between the ribs where the nerves and blood vessels are)

fissure ((anatomy) a long narrow slit or groove that divides an organ into lobes)

Derivation:

groove (hollow out in the form of a furrow or groove)

• GROOVE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they groove    ... he / she / it grooves   
Past simple: grooved   
Past participle: grooved   
-ing form: grooving   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make a groove in, or provide with a groove

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

groove a vinyl record

Hypernyms (to "groove" is one way to...):

incise (make an incision into by carving or cutting)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "groove"):

dado (cut a dado into or fit into a dado)

mill (produce a ridge around the edge of)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

groove (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))

groover (a device that makes grooves by cutting or punching)

grooving (the cutting of spiral grooves on the inside of the barrel of a firearm)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Hollow out in the form of a furrow or groove

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

furrow; groove; rut

Context example:

furrow soil

Hypernyms (to "groove" is one way to...):

cut into; delve; dig; turn over (turn up, loosen, or remove earth)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

groove ((anatomy) any furrow or channel on a bodily structure or part)

groove (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))

 Context examples 

The smoothness of the plains, as well as their grooves and faint ridges, are clear signs of wide-scale resurfacing.

(Pluto’s Big Moon Charon Reveals a Colorful and Violent History, NASA)

GDC-0199 mimics BH3-only proteins, the native ligands of Bcl-2 and apoptosis activators, by binding to the hydrophobic groove of Bcl-2 proteins thereby repressing Bcl-2 activity and restoring apoptotic processes in tumor cells.

(Bcl-2 Inhibitor GDC-0199, NCI Thesaurus)

Bizelesin binds to the minor groove of DNA and induces interstrand cross-linking of DNA, thereby inhibiting DNA replication and RNA synthesis.

(Bizelesin, NCI Thesaurus)

A synthetic compound that binds to the DNA minor groove and cause anti tumor activity.

(MS-247, NCI Thesaurus)

Calicheamicin Gamma 1I binds to the minor groove of DNA, resulting in site-specific double-strand breaks and apoptosis.

(Calicheamicin Gamma 1I, NCI Thesaurus)

GX015-070 is a selective antagonist of the BH3-binding groove of the Bcl-2 family proteins, which are frequently overexpressed in cancers including chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL).

(Obatoclax, NCI Thesaurus)

The AT hook motif tethers and unwinds the minor groove of the DNA with very little specificity for the DNA sequence.

(AT Hook Motif, NCI Thesaurus)

Upon internalization, calicheamicin, an enediyne class antibiotics, is released from the conjugate by hydrolysis, and binds in a sequence specific manner to the minor groove of DNA.

(Anti-CD33 Immunotoxin, NCI Thesaurus)

Anthramycin binds covalently to guanine in the minor groove of DNA, thereby inhibiting DNA replication and RNA and protein synthesis.

(Anthramycin, NCI Thesaurus)

Target protein binding involves contacts by the beta hairpin tips and the helical bundle surface facing the Ankyrin groove.

(Ankyrin Repeat, NCI Thesaurus)