grooven.

Brit.

/ɡruːv/, U.S.

/ɡruv/

Forms: Also Middle English grofe, groof, 1600s groeve, 1600s–1800s grove, (1600s, 1800s gruff, 1800s groave, gruve).

Etymology: < early modern Dutch groeve ‘sulcus, fossa, scrobs’, (Kilian), Dutch groef = Old Low German gruova , Old High German gruoba , Middle High German gruobe , German grube pit, hole, ditch, mine, fosse (in Anat.), Old Norse gróf pit, Gothic grôba , < Old Germanic root *grôƀ-, graƀ- (see grave n.¹, grave v.¹).

a. A mining shaft; a mine, pit. Now dialect †Also, in 15th cent., a cave (obsolete).

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society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > mine > [noun] > shaft

groovea1400

shaft1433

sink1557

mine pit1587

sinking1613

footway1778

shank1790

mine shaft1818

society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > mine > [noun]

minea1393

work1474

mineral?a1500

minery1567

balc1600

groove1666

bargh1693

winning1708

working1708

wheal1830

show1898

a1400–50 Alexander 5394 Makis he gracis to his goddis & þan þe grofe entres.

a1483 Mendip Laws in Phelps Hist. Somerset vii. (1839) 6 Any man that doth begin to pitch or groof..must stand to the..waist in the same groof.

1631 in S. R. Gardiner Rep. Cases Star Chamber & High Comm. (1886) 91 Pulling the minors out of their groves by head and shoulders.

1666 Locke in Boyle Hist. Air (1692) xvii. 137 I rode to Minedeep, with an Intention to make use of it [a barometer] there, in one of the deepest Gruffs (for so they call their Pits) I could find.

a1698 W. Blundell Crosby Rec. (1880) 251 The pits where lead is digged, in Derbyshire, are called grooves.

1747 W. Hooson Miners Dict. sig. Kj Groove [is] the Mine or Work that a Man is employ'd in, hence it is if a Question be asked, Where is Tom to day? He is gone to the Groove, he is at the Groove; sometimes it is used for the Shaft.

1797 W. G. Maton Observ. Western Counties Eng. II. 131 On Mendip they call their works grooves, and the miners groovers, which are terms that seem to be peculiar to this part of the country.

1825 J. Jennings Observ. Dial. W. Eng. 41 Gruff, a mine. Gruffer, Gruffier, a miner.

1829 J. Hodgson in J. Raine Mem. (1858) II. 157 The coal is worked by a grove of fair quality.

1873 J. Harland Gloss. Words Swaledale Gruve, a lead mine. Gruver, a lead miner.

1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 143 Groove or Grove. i. Derb. A mine.

b. = drift n. 15. dialect.

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1887 H. Miller Geol. Otterburn & Elsdon 130 Mouth~groves, short levels, generally entering upon the crop of a coal.

1893 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Grove, Grove-hole, Mouth~grove, an adit level driven in from the surface for coal or fire-clay. Sometimes this is called a grove-hole, but the common term is a drift.

a. A channel or hollow, cut by artificial means, in metal, wood, etc.; e.g. the spiral rifling of a gun, one of the air-passages leading from the wind-chest to the pipes of an organ, etc.

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the world > space > shape > unevenness > condition or fact of receding > [noun] > making grooves > a groove, channel, or furrow

furrowc1374

groopc1440

regal1458

rat1513

slot?1523

gutter1555

chamfer1601

channel1611

fluting1611

furrowing1611

rita1657

denervation1657

rigol1658

groove1659

riggota1661

rake1672

stria1673

champer1713

cannelure1755

gully1803

channelure1823

flute1842

rill1855

droke1880

1659 J. Leak tr. I. de Caus New Inventions Water-works 33 The Valves are marked with M, the Groves by E.

1664 J. Evelyn Acct. Archit. in tr. R. Fréart Parallel Antient Archit. 130 Excavated Channelles, by our Workmen call'd Flutings and Groeves.

1680 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. x. 187 This String is laid in the Groove made on the edge of the Wheel.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 89/1 Grove of a Screw, is the hollow..between the Thrids.

1752 W. Halfpenny & J. Halfpenny New Designs Chinese Bridges iv. (1755) 4 Feather-edged Boards, not more than 8 Inches wide, including Lap, Grove, and Tongue.

1813 W. Scott Bridal of Triermain i. xv. 37 Portcullis rose with crashing groan Full harshly up its groove of stone.

1816 Sporting Mag. 48 191 The slide [in a gun] still works freely, no rust having been found on the groaves.

1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 882 He now forms the groove with a single stroke of a small file, dexterously applied, first to the one side of the needle, and then to the other.

1852 tr. J. J. Seidel Organ & its Constr. 52 These partitions are called grooves..every groove holds exactly as much wind as is necessary to sound either a large or a small pipe.

1858 W. Greener Gunnery in 1858 363 He formed a number of circular grooves on the cylindrical part of the bullet, in imitation of the feathers of an arrow.

b. Theatre. (See quot. 1886.)

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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > stage > [noun] > grooves for scenery

cut1859

groove1866

1866 W. Davidge Footlight Flashes xv. 150 The scenery is pushed back as far as it will go in the slides, or grooves, so called.

1881 G. Daniel Merrie Eng. 352 At this moment the scenes stuck fast in the grooves.

1886 Stage Gossip 69 The ‘grooves’ are the supports for the ‘wings’ and ‘flats’.

1966 Amer. Notes & Queries Sept. 13/2 Some promptbooks of the eighteenth century and most of those of the nineteenth show at the head of each scene..the number or numbers of the grooves in which the wings and shutters..are to stand.

c. The spiral cut in a gramophone record (earlier, in a phonograph cylinder) which forms the path for the needle.

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society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > sound recording and reproduction > a sound recording > [noun] > record or disc > groove

groove1902

track1904

fine-groove1948

microgroove1948

locked groove1956

coarse groove1958

run-in1962

1902 Encycl. Brit. XXXI. 679/1 In the first phonograph a spiral groove was cut on a brass drum fixed on a horizontal screw.

1902 Encycl. Brit. XXXI. 679/1 The sharp edge of the needle ran in the middle of the spiral groove when the cylinder was rotated.

1902 Encycl. Brit. XXXI. 680/1 The grooves on the cylinder are ¹/ ₁₀₀ of an inch apart.

1931 B. Brown Talking Pictures ix. 194 Examining an ordinary record we find the spiral grooves of very fine pitch somewhere about 100 to the inch.

1956 (title) Reproducing equipment for fine-groove records. (B.B.C.)

1957 Records & Recording Nov. 20/1 It is these grooves which must be tracked with absolute accuracy by the pickup needle.

1958 Times 18 Oct. 9/5 Why should the abridged version of The Rape of Lucretia languish on coarse-groove records?

1962 A. Nisbett Technique Sound Studio 255 Coarse-groove... Approximate dimensions: width 6 mils, depth 2·5 mils.

3. A channel or furrow of natural formation.

a. spec. in Anatomy and Zoology.

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the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > indentation or cavity > [noun] > groove or furrow

gutter1553

scissure1607

rut1615

fissure1656

sulcus1744

groove1789

canaliculation1797

fossule1803

fossula1811

furrow1819

sulcation1852

sulculus1859

vallecula1859

1789 G. White Nat. Hist. Selborne 7 The alternate flutings or grooves, and the curved form of my specimen.

1828 J. Stark Elements Nat. Hist. II. 389 The fore part of the head is generally more membranaceous than the hind part,..with a longitudinal furrow on each side, or a groove to receive the antennæ.

1878 L. P. Meredith Teeth (ed. 2) 157 A continuous groove across..the teeth near the gum.

1899 J. Hutchinson Archives Surg. X. 145 The parts [of the nails] which have received names, are the body, the root, the free edge, the sides, the lunula, the matrix or bed, and the groove.

b. gen.

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the world > the earth > land > landscape > low land > hole or pit > [noun] > furrow

groovea1852

droke1880

karren1894

lapiés1902

a1852 W. Macgillivray Nat. Hist. Dee Side (1855) 6 The groove or narrow valley in which the Dee flows.

1865 A. Geikie Scenery & Geol. Scotl. iv. 80 Its rocks covered with ruts and grooves, running in long persistent lines.

4. transferred and figurative.

a. A ‘channel’ or routine of action or life. Often in depreciatory sense: A narrow, limited, undeviating course; a ‘rut’.

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the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [noun] > routine > a routine

routine1661

rota1673

rut1839

groove1842

1842 Ld. Tennyson Locksley Hall in Poems (new ed.) II. 110 Let the peoples spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.

1868 A. Helps Realmah I. iv. 71 His ideas were wont to travel rather in a groove.

1869 J. E. T. Rogers in A. Smith Inq. Wealth Nations (new ed.) I. Pref. 27 The whole course of legislation..had flowed in the same groove for centuries.

1871 L. Stephen Playground of Europe (1894) viii. 174 I see that I am inevitably falling into the old groove.

1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People x. §4. 806 Labour was thus thrown out of its older grooves.

1882 W. Besant Revolt of Man (1883) viii. 193 The conversation flowed in the accustomed grooves.

b. in the (or a) groove (cf. 2c above) = groovy adj. 3. Hence groove is used to mean: a style of playing jazz or similar music, esp. one that is ‘swinging’ or good; a time when jazz is played well; more widely, one's predilection or favourite style, = bag n. 1c; something excellent or very satisfying. slang (originally U.S.).

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society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > [noun] > style of performing

rumblante1775

jazzification1924

in the groove1932

bag1960

karaoke1977

scratch1982

scratching1982

scratch-mixing1987

society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > [adjective] > style of performing

ad libitum1786

extempore1795

ad lib1825

improvisational1871

magadized1901

jazzed1917

jazzified1920

stomping1927

in the (or a) groove1932

stodgy1934

groovy1937

swinging1955

riffing1960

Muzaked1962

funkified1974

noodly1981

widdly1984

scratch-mix1987

the mind > will > free will > choice or choosing > types of choice > [noun] > choosing as more desirable > a preference > one's special preference

taste1739

particular1801

one's cup of tea1932

in the groove1958

1932 Melody Maker Oct. 836/1 Having such a wonderful time which puts me in a groove.

1933 Fortune Aug. 90/2 The jazz musicians gave no grandstand performances; they simply got a great burn from playing in the groove.

1935 Hot News Sept. 17/1 The Boswells are not in the hot groove.

1936 Rhythm Apr. 27/2 His first chorus in the latter is really in the right groove, but he loses it completely in the next one.

1940 Swing Nov. 27 Travelin' has a sax-unison melody somewhat in the Tuxedo groove.

1946 B. Treadwell Big Bk. of Swing 124/2 In the groove, everything going O.K.

1954 Jive Jungle 32 The all night ‘grooves’ began.

1957 M. Mezzrow in S. Traill Concerning Jazz 18 What we had played was so good I doubted if we could even get in that same groove again.

1958 G. Lea Somewhere there's Music iv. 35 Romance? No, bruz, that's not my groove.

1959 N. Mailer Advts. for Myself (1961) 296 If you as a cat are way out too, and we are in the same groove.., why then you say simply, ‘I dig.’

1962 R. Manheim tr. G. Grass Tin Drum iii. 518 We made music, played ourselves into the groove.

1966 Melody Maker 15 Oct. 19 The rhythm team..developed a very propulsive rhythmic groove.

1967 Melody Maker 16 Dec. 8 This is what makes the Indian one such a groove for me.

†5. A gardener's transplanting tool. Obsolete.

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the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > equipment and buildings > [noun] > gardening tool > transplanting tool

groove1725

1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Orange Tree He must take away with his displanting Groove as much of the Earth as he can.

1726 Dict. Rusticum (ed. 3) Groove, a Gardiners Tool for transplanting Flowers.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

groove-piece n.

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1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 90 Iron groove pieces or channels which are let into the stone-work of the side walls.

C2.

groove-board n. in an organ (see quot.).

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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > organ > [noun] > soundboard > parts of

stock-board1850

table1852

groove-board1880

1880 C. A. Edwards Organs ii. iii. 55 When there is..not room for the entire sound board, or..for the larger pipes..they are..supplied by means of grooves cut usually in the upper board, or in a kind of second upper board called a groove-board.

groove cast n. Geology a ridge on the lower surface of a layer of sandstone corresponding to a groove on underlying mudstone.

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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > sedimentary formation > [noun] > stratum > position or direction of strata > load cast or sole-mark

groove cast1948

load cast1953

sole mark1961

1948 R. R. Shrock Sequence in Layered Rocks iv. 163 These interesting and puzzling ridges, here designated groove casts, seem to represent sand fillings (casts) of rectilinear, V-shaped and U-shaped grooves existing in the upper few millimeters of the bottom sediment on which sand was deposited.

1963 W. C. Krumbein & L. L. Sloss Stratigr. & Sedimentation (ed. 2) iv. 130 The upper right illustration shows groove casts, elongated parallel grooves or scratches oriented in the direction of current flow.

groove-fellow n. one of a company of men working a mine or a section of it in partnership.

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1829 S. Glover Hist. County of Derby I. 74 Each person or company possessing their meer or meers in partnership (called groove fellows).

groove-going adj. that travels ‘in a groove’, that keeps to one course.

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the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [adjective] > routine > acting in a routine way

jog-trot1766

routinist1847

groove-going1880

groovy1882

hung up1945

1880 A. W. Kinglake Invasion of Crimea (ed. 4) VI. xi. 429 Under this discipline the groove-going men winced in agony.

groove-hole n. dialect (see quot.).

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groove-like adj. wanting in novelty or originality.

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the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [adjective] > routine

routine1744

routinary1807

formal1818

routinish1830

jog-jog1837

clockworky1864

groove-like1902

1902 Daily Chron. 5 July 8/3 There are commendations without end waiting for the linen frock that displays just a little originality, so groove-like is the manifestation of that material as a general rule.

1908 Westm. Gaz. 4 June 10/3 I think the modern tendency is too groove-like. Once make a success as a Cockney or a love-sick maiden, and a Cockney or a love-sick maiden you will be to the end of time.

groove-locating unit n. a device that indicates the position of a stylus on a record as the record is played.

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society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > sound recording and reproduction > sound recording or reproducing equipment > [noun] > record-playing equipment > other parts

sound-box1876

reproducer1883

scratch filter1929

spindle1940

groove-locating unit1941

reject button1947

1941 B.B.C. Gloss. Broadcasting Terms 14 Groove-locating unit, device forming part of a reproducing desk, and consisting of an arm carrying a pick-up, together with a pointer and scale to indicate the position of the needle on the record.

1962 A. Nisbett Technique Sound Studio viii. 145 BBC studios are equipped with record players which have optical groove-locating units. On these a mirror is fixed beneath the pivot and throws the image of a scale on to a ground-glass screen.

groove-roller n. (see quot.)

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > steering equipment > [noun] > helm > steering yoke or quadrant > roller to prevent friction

groove-roller1867

1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Groove-rollers, these are fixed in a groove of the tiller-sweep in large ships, to aid the tiller-ropes, and prevent friction.

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groovev.

Brit.

/ɡruːv/, U.S.

/ɡruv/

Forms: Also Middle English groof, 1700s gruve.

Etymology: < groove n. Compare Flemish groeven ‘cælare, sculpere, cauare’ (Kilian).

1. intransitive. To sink a mining shaft; to mine. dialect.

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a1483 Mendip Laws in Phelps Hist. Somerset vii. (1839) 6 Any man that doth begin to pitch or groof..must stand to the..waist in the same groof.

1892 Daily News 10 Mar. 5/1 There are men still living who remember the old mining days, when ‘grooving’ for calamine was the main occupation of the [Mendip] district.

2. transitive. To cut a groove or grooves in; to provide with grooves. (Also with out.) to groove into: to fit into by means of a groove.

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the world > space > shape > unevenness > condition or fact of receding > form a recess in [verb (transitive)] > form (a groove) > make grooves in

gutter1387

groop1412

channel?1440

chamfer1565

flute1578

plough1594

seam1596

entrench1607

furrow1609

trench1624

groove1686

striate1709

quirk1797

stripe1842

engroove1880

1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. iv. 174 If the plaister fall..out from between the Timber..for want of grooving it round within side before the plaister be laid on.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 322/1 In these holes are threads of Screws grooved inwards.

1721 J. Swift George-Nim-Dan-Dean's Answer 28 One letter still another locks, Each groov'd and dove~tail'd like a box.

1751 W. Halfpenny & J. Halfpenny New Designs Chinese Bridges ii. 8 The side Timbers and middle Pieces..are gruv'd and bolted together.

1810 P. B. Shelley Zastrozzi i. 9 One end being grooved into the solid wall.

1845 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 2) 111 You see yon wretched starved old man; his brow Grooved out with wrinkles.

1870 J. Ruskin Lect. Art ii. 44 It may be possible to show the necessities of structure which groove the fangs..of the asp.

1899 Edinb. Rev. Apr. 316 A metamorphic rock..rent by earthquakes, fissured, grooved, eroded.

3. To cut in the form of a groove or channel; to excavate (a channel). Also, to force itself along a channel.

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the world > space > shape > unevenness > condition or fact of receding > form a recess in [verb (transitive)] > form (a groove)

plough1831

groove1866

1866 R. S. Storrs Serm. in Nat. Preacher (N.Y.) When the searching, scientific spirit awakens among men,..they..hunt the records that are grooved upon rocks.

1881 J. C. Shairp Aspects Poetry v. 128 High-pitched imagination and vivid emotion tend..to groove for themselves channels of language which are peculiar and unique.

1883 Cent. Mag. 27 146 The glacier moves silently,..grooving the record of its being on the world itself.

1890 H. M. Stanley In Darkest Afr. II. xxviii. 259 The Rami-lulu [river] had eventually furrowed and grooved itself deeply through.

a. passive and intransitive. To fit or be fitted as into a groove. rare.

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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > be or become joined together [verb (intransitive)] > fit closely together > as in a groove

groove1854

1854 T. De Quincey On War in Select. Grave & Gay IV. 271 Phenomena of chance growth, not..so grooved into the dark necessities of our nature, as we had all taken for granted.

1886 C. Gibbon Clare of Claresmede I. ix. 109 Sheldon adjoined Winston, and would groove into that estate nicely.

b. figurative. To settle or be settled into (or in) a routine of work, habit, etc. Also with down.

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the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > act habitually [verb (intransitive)] > get into a routine

groove1866

1866 J. Conington Let. 28 June in Misc. Writ. (1872) I. p. lvi I am grooving down into work here.

1879 J. A. Froude Cæsar ii. 10 Morality thus engrained in the national character and grooved into habits of action creates strength, as nothing else creates it.

1922 A. S. M. Hutchinson This Freedom i. v She found Anna grooved in the business of helping her mother in the house.

5. intransitive. To play jazz or similar music with ‘swing’; to be ‘in the groove’ (see groove n. 4b); to dance or listen to such music with great pleasure; hence, to make good progress or co-operate; to get on well with someone; to make love. Also transitive, to play (music) swingingly; to give pleasure to (a person). slang (originally U.S.).

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the mind > emotion > love > amorous love > be in love [verb (intransitive)] > get on well, co-operate

groove1935

the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > be friendly [verb (intransitive)] > get on (well)

gree?a1513

to get in with1602

cotton1605

to hitch (also set, or stable) horses together1617

to hit it1634

gee1685

to set horses together1685

to be made for each other (also one another)1751

to hit it off1780

to get ona1805

to hitch horses together1835

niggle1837

to step together1866

to speak (also talk) someone's (also the same) language1893

to stall with1897

cog1926

groove1935

click1954

vibe1986

society > leisure > the arts > music > music appreciation > music lover > music loving or appreciative [verb (intransitive)]

groove1935

society > leisure > the arts > music > music appreciation > music lover > music loving or appreciative [verb (transitive)]

groove1935

society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > perform music [verb (intransitive)] > specific style or technique > in jazz

go1926

ride1929

swing1931

tear1932

to play (it) straight1933

groove1935

riff1935

give1936

jumpc1938

to beat it out1945

walk1951

cook1954

move1955

wail1955

stretch1961

society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > perform (music) [verb (transitive)] > specific style or technique > in jazz

sock1927

groove1935

swing1936

to put down1952

1935 Vanity Fair Nov. 38/1 That's the third date we've grooved half a dozen schmaltzy tunes.

1937 in Amer. Speech 12 182/1 Men who can lay on sugar or groove it.

1945 ‘Dizzy’ Gillespie (title of tune) Groovin' high.

1959 Esquire Nov. 70 I To groove someone means to provide them with enjoyment. Example: Her singing grooved me.

1960 Melody Maker 31 Dec. 11/5 (title of record) Benny Golson ‘Groovin' with Golson’.

1967 Observer 4 Dec. (Colour Suppl.) 28 Groove, make good progress, co-operate.

1967 Melody Maker 16 Dec. 10/7 The rhythm section..grooves along in true Basie manner.

1968 Listener 5 Sept. 306/3 The radio Peel is quiet, self-mocking, sardonic and scornful of the ‘let's move and groove to this latest gas group from Croydon’ school of presentation.

1970 New Yorker 14 May 34/2 Sad Arthur put away his boots and helmet..to stay in Nutley and groove with the fair Lambie.

1970 Observer 24 May 40/6 We're trying to get humanity to transcend its cultural limitations and groove with it.

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单词	groove
释义	grooven. Brit. /ɡruːv/, U.S. /ɡruv/ Forms: Also Middle English grofe, groof, 1600s groeve, 1600s–1800s grove, (1600s, 1800s gruff, 1800s groave, gruve). Etymology: < early modern Dutch groeve ‘sulcus, fossa, scrobs’, (Kilian), Dutch groef = Old Low German gruova , Old High German gruoba , Middle High German gruobe , German grube pit, hole, ditch, mine, fosse (in Anat.), Old Norse gróf pit, Gothic grôba , < Old Germanic root grôƀ-, graƀ- (see grave n.¹, grave v.¹). 1. a. A mining shaft; a mine, pit. Now dialect* †Also, in 15th cent., a cave (obsolete). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > mine > [noun] > shaft groovea1400 shaft1433 sink1557 mine pit1587 sinking1613 footway1778 shank1790 mine shaft1818 society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > mine > [noun] minea1393 work1474 mineral?a1500 minery1567 balc1600 groove1666 bargh1693 winning1708 working1708 wheal1830 show1898 a1400–50 Alexander 5394 Makis he gracis to his goddis & þan þe grofe entres. a1483 Mendip Laws in Phelps Hist. Somerset vii. (1839) 6 Any man that doth begin to pitch or groof..must stand to the..waist in the same groof. 1631 in S. R. Gardiner Rep. Cases Star Chamber & High Comm. (1886) 91 Pulling the minors out of their groves by head and shoulders. 1666 Locke in Boyle Hist. Air (1692) xvii. 137 I rode to Minedeep, with an Intention to make use of it [a barometer] there, in one of the deepest Gruffs (for so they call their Pits) I could find. a1698 W. Blundell Crosby Rec. (1880) 251 The pits where lead is digged, in Derbyshire, are called grooves. 1747 W. Hooson Miners Dict. sig. Kj Groove [is] the Mine or Work that a Man is employ'd in, hence it is if a Question be asked, Where is Tom to day? He is gone to the Groove, he is at the Groove; sometimes it is used for the Shaft. 1797 W. G. Maton Observ. Western Counties Eng. II. 131 On Mendip they call their works grooves, and the miners groovers, which are terms that seem to be peculiar to this part of the country. 1825 J. Jennings Observ. Dial. W. Eng. 41 Gruff, a mine. Gruffer, Gruffier, a miner. 1829 J. Hodgson in J. Raine Mem. (1858) II. 157 The coal is worked by a grove of fair quality. 1873 J. Harland Gloss. Words Swaledale Gruve, a lead mine. Gruver, a lead miner. 1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 143 Groove or Grove. i. Derb. A mine. b. = drift n. 15. dialect. ΚΠ 1887 H. Miller Geol. Otterburn & Elsdon 130 Mouth~groves, short levels, generally entering upon the crop of a coal. 1893 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Grove, Grove-hole, Mouth~grove, an adit level driven in from the surface for coal or fire-clay. Sometimes this is called a grove-hole, but the common term is a drift. 2. a. A channel or hollow, cut by artificial means, in metal, wood, etc.; e.g. the spiral rifling of a gun, one of the air-passages leading from the wind-chest to the pipes of an organ, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > unevenness > condition or fact of receding > [noun] > making grooves > a groove, channel, or furrow furrowc1374 groopc1440 regal1458 rat1513 slot?1523 gutter1555 chamfer1601 channel1611 fluting1611 furrowing1611 rita1657 denervation1657 rigol1658 groove1659 riggota1661 rake1672 stria1673 champer1713 cannelure1755 gully1803 channelure1823 flute1842 rill1855 droke1880 1659 J. Leak tr. I. de Caus New Inventions Water-works 33 The Valves are marked with M, the Groves by E. 1664 J. Evelyn Acct. Archit. in tr. R. Fréart Parallel Antient Archit. 130 Excavated Channelles, by our Workmen call'd Flutings and Groeves. 1680 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. x. 187 This String is laid in the Groove made on the edge of the Wheel. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 89/1 Grove of a Screw, is the hollow..between the Thrids. 1752 W. Halfpenny & J. Halfpenny New Designs Chinese Bridges iv. (1755) 4 Feather-edged Boards, not more than 8 Inches wide, including Lap, Grove, and Tongue. 1813 W. Scott Bridal of Triermain i. xv. 37 Portcullis rose with crashing groan Full harshly up its groove of stone. 1816 Sporting Mag. 48 191 The slide [in a gun] still works freely, no rust having been found on the groaves. 1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 882 He now forms the groove with a single stroke of a small file, dexterously applied, first to the one side of the needle, and then to the other. 1852 tr. J. J. Seidel Organ & its Constr. 52 These partitions are called grooves..every groove holds exactly as much wind as is necessary to sound either a large or a small pipe. 1858 W. Greener Gunnery in 1858 363 He formed a number of circular grooves on the cylindrical part of the bullet, in imitation of the feathers of an arrow. b. Theatre. (See quot. 1886.) ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > stage > [noun] > grooves for scenery cut1859 groove1866 1866 W. Davidge Footlight Flashes xv. 150 The scenery is pushed back as far as it will go in the slides, or grooves, so called. 1881 G. Daniel Merrie Eng. 352 At this moment the scenes stuck fast in the grooves. 1886 Stage Gossip 69 The ‘grooves’ are the supports for the ‘wings’ and ‘flats’. 1966 Amer. Notes & Queries Sept. 13/2 Some promptbooks of the eighteenth century and most of those of the nineteenth show at the head of each scene..the number or numbers of the grooves in which the wings and shutters..are to stand. c. The spiral cut in a gramophone record (earlier, in a phonograph cylinder) which forms the path for the needle. ΘΚΠ society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > sound recording and reproduction > a sound recording > [noun] > record or disc > groove groove1902 track1904 fine-groove1948 microgroove1948 locked groove1956 coarse groove1958 run-in1962 1902 Encycl. Brit. XXXI. 679/1 In the first phonograph a spiral groove was cut on a brass drum fixed on a horizontal screw. 1902 Encycl. Brit. XXXI. 679/1 The sharp edge of the needle ran in the middle of the spiral groove when the cylinder was rotated. 1902 Encycl. Brit. XXXI. 680/1 The grooves on the cylinder are ¹/ ₁₀₀ of an inch apart. 1931 B. Brown Talking Pictures ix. 194 Examining an ordinary record we find the spiral grooves of very fine pitch somewhere about 100 to the inch. 1956 (title) Reproducing equipment for fine-groove records. (B.B.C.) 1957 Records & Recording Nov. 20/1 It is these grooves which must be tracked with absolute accuracy by the pickup needle. 1958 Times 18 Oct. 9/5 Why should the abridged version of The Rape of Lucretia languish on coarse-groove records? 1962 A. Nisbett Technique Sound Studio 255 Coarse-groove... Approximate dimensions: width 6 mils, depth 2·5 mils. 3. A channel or furrow of natural formation. a. spec. in Anatomy and Zoology. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > indentation or cavity > [noun] > groove or furrow gutter1553 scissure1607 rut1615 fissure1656 sulcus1744 groove1789 canaliculation1797 fossule1803 fossula1811 furrow1819 sulcation1852 sulculus1859 vallecula1859 1789 G. White Nat. Hist. Selborne 7 The alternate flutings or grooves, and the curved form of my specimen. 1828 J. Stark Elements Nat. Hist. II. 389 The fore part of the head is generally more membranaceous than the hind part,..with a longitudinal furrow on each side, or a groove to receive the antennæ. 1878 L. P. Meredith Teeth (ed. 2) 157 A continuous groove across..the teeth near the gum. 1899 J. Hutchinson Archives Surg. X. 145 The parts [of the nails] which have received names, are the body, the root, the free edge, the sides, the lunula, the matrix or bed, and the groove. b. gen. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > low land > hole or pit > [noun] > furrow groovea1852 droke1880 karren1894 lapiés1902 a1852 W. Macgillivray Nat. Hist. Dee Side (1855) 6 The groove or narrow valley in which the Dee flows. 1865 A. Geikie Scenery & Geol. Scotl. iv. 80 Its rocks covered with ruts and grooves, running in long persistent lines. 4. transferred and figurative. a. A ‘channel’ or routine of action or life. Often in depreciatory sense: A narrow, limited, undeviating course; a ‘rut’. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [noun] > routine > a routine routine1661 rota1673 rut1839 groove1842 1842 Ld. Tennyson Locksley Hall in Poems (new ed.) II. 110 Let the peoples spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change. 1868 A. Helps Realmah I. iv. 71 His ideas were wont to travel rather in a groove. 1869 J. E. T. Rogers in A. Smith Inq. Wealth Nations (new ed.) I. Pref. 27 The whole course of legislation..had flowed in the same groove for centuries. 1871 L. Stephen Playground of Europe (1894) viii. 174 I see that I am inevitably falling into the old groove. 1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People x. §4. 806 Labour was thus thrown out of its older grooves. 1882 W. Besant Revolt of Man (1883) viii. 193 The conversation flowed in the accustomed grooves. b. in the (or a) groove (cf. 2c above) = groovy adj. 3. Hence groove is used to mean: a style of playing jazz or similar music, esp. one that is ‘swinging’ or good; a time when jazz is played well; more widely, one's predilection or favourite style, = bag n. 1c; something excellent or very satisfying. slang (originally U.S.). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > [noun] > style of performing rumblante1775 jazzification1924 in the groove1932 bag1960 karaoke1977 scratch1982 scratching1982 scratch-mixing1987 society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > [adjective] > style of performing ad libitum1786 extempore1795 ad lib1825 improvisational1871 magadized1901 jazzed1917 jazzified1920 stomping1927 in the (or a) groove1932 stodgy1934 groovy1937 swinging1955 riffing1960 Muzaked1962 funkified1974 noodly1981 widdly1984 scratch-mix1987 the mind > will > free will > choice or choosing > types of choice > [noun] > choosing as more desirable > a preference > one's special preference taste1739 particular1801 one's cup of tea1932 in the groove1958 1932 Melody Maker Oct. 836/1 Having such a wonderful time which puts me in a groove. 1933 Fortune Aug. 90/2 The jazz musicians gave no grandstand performances; they simply got a great burn from playing in the groove. 1935 Hot News Sept. 17/1 The Boswells are not in the hot groove. 1936 Rhythm Apr. 27/2 His first chorus in the latter is really in the right groove, but he loses it completely in the next one. 1940 Swing Nov. 27 Travelin' has a sax-unison melody somewhat in the Tuxedo groove. 1946 B. Treadwell Big Bk. of Swing 124/2 In the groove, everything going O.K. 1954 Jive Jungle 32 The all night ‘grooves’ began. 1957 M. Mezzrow in S. Traill Concerning Jazz 18 What we had played was so good I doubted if we could even get in that same groove again. 1958 G. Lea Somewhere there's Music iv. 35 Romance? No, bruz, that's not my groove. 1959 N. Mailer Advts. for Myself (1961) 296 If you as a cat are way out too, and we are in the same groove.., why then you say simply, ‘I dig.’ 1962 R. Manheim tr. G. Grass Tin Drum iii. 518 We made music, played ourselves into the groove. 1966 Melody Maker 15 Oct. 19 The rhythm team..developed a very propulsive rhythmic groove. 1967 Melody Maker 16 Dec. 8 This is what makes the Indian one such a groove for me. †5. A gardener's transplanting tool. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > equipment and buildings > [noun] > gardening tool > transplanting tool groove1725 1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Orange Tree He must take away with his displanting Groove as much of the Earth as he can. 1726 Dict. Rusticum (ed. 3) Groove, a Gardiners Tool for transplanting Flowers. Compounds C1. General attributive. groove-piece n. ΚΠ 1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 90 Iron groove pieces or channels which are let into the stone-work of the side walls. C2. groove-board n. in an organ (see quot.). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > organ > [noun] > soundboard > parts of stock-board1850 table1852 groove-board1880 1880 C. A. Edwards Organs ii. iii. 55 When there is..not room for the entire sound board, or..for the larger pipes..they are..supplied by means of grooves cut usually in the upper board, or in a kind of second upper board called a groove-board. groove cast n. Geology a ridge on the lower surface of a layer of sandstone corresponding to a groove on underlying mudstone. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > sedimentary formation > [noun] > stratum > position or direction of strata > load cast or sole-mark groove cast1948 load cast1953 sole mark1961 1948 R. R. Shrock Sequence in Layered Rocks iv. 163 These interesting and puzzling ridges, here designated groove casts, seem to represent sand fillings (casts) of rectilinear, V-shaped and U-shaped grooves existing in the upper few millimeters of the bottom sediment on which sand was deposited. 1963 W. C. Krumbein & L. L. Sloss Stratigr. & Sedimentation (ed. 2) iv. 130 The upper right illustration shows groove casts, elongated parallel grooves or scratches oriented in the direction of current flow. groove-fellow n. one of a company of men working a mine or a section of it in partnership. ΚΠ 1829 S. Glover Hist. County of Derby I. 74 Each person or company possessing their meer or meers in partnership (called groove fellows). groove-going adj. that travels ‘in a groove’, that keeps to one course. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [adjective] > routine > acting in a routine way jog-trot1766 routinist1847 groove-going1880 groovy1882 hung up1945 1880 A. W. Kinglake Invasion of Crimea (ed. 4) VI. xi. 429 Under this discipline the groove-going men winced in agony. groove-hole n. dialect (see quot.). ΚΠ 1893 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Grove, Grove-hole, Mouth~grove, an adit level driven in from the surface for coal or fire-clay. Sometimes this is called a grove-hole, but the common term is a drift. groove-like adj. wanting in novelty or originality. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [adjective] > routine routine1744 routinary1807 formal1818 routinish1830 jog-jog1837 clockworky1864 groove-like1902 1902 Daily Chron. 5 July 8/3 There are commendations without end waiting for the linen frock that displays just a little originality, so groove-like is the manifestation of that material as a general rule. 1908 Westm. Gaz. 4 June 10/3 I think the modern tendency is too groove-like. Once make a success as a Cockney or a love-sick maiden, and a Cockney or a love-sick maiden you will be to the end of time. groove-locating unit n. a device that indicates the position of a stylus on a record as the record is played. ΘΚΠ society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > sound recording and reproduction > sound recording or reproducing equipment > [noun] > record-playing equipment > other parts sound-box1876 reproducer1883 scratch filter1929 spindle1940 groove-locating unit1941 reject button1947 1941 B.B.C. Gloss. Broadcasting Terms 14 Groove-locating unit, device forming part of a reproducing desk, and consisting of an arm carrying a pick-up, together with a pointer and scale to indicate the position of the needle on the record. 1962 A. Nisbett Technique Sound Studio viii. 145 BBC studios are equipped with record players which have optical groove-locating units. On these a mirror is fixed beneath the pivot and throws the image of a scale on to a ground-glass screen. groove-roller n. (see quot.) ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > steering equipment > [noun] > helm > steering yoke or quadrant > roller to prevent friction groove-roller1867 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Groove-rollers, these are fixed in a groove of the tiller-sweep in large ships, to aid the tiller-ropes, and prevent friction. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022). groovev. Brit. /ɡruːv/, U.S. /ɡruv/ Forms: Also Middle English groof, 1700s gruve. Etymology: < groove n. Compare Flemish groeven ‘cælare, sculpere, cauare’ (Kilian). 1. intransitive. To sink a mining shaft; to mine. dialect. ΚΠ a1483 Mendip Laws in Phelps Hist. Somerset vii. (1839) 6 Any man that doth begin to pitch or groof..must stand to the..waist in the same groof. 1892 Daily News 10 Mar. 5/1 There are men still living who remember the old mining days, when ‘grooving’ for calamine was the main occupation of the [Mendip] district. 2. transitive. To cut a groove or grooves in; to provide with grooves. (Also with out.) to groove into: to fit into by means of a groove. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > unevenness > condition or fact of receding > form a recess in [verb (transitive)] > form (a groove) > make grooves in gutter1387 groop1412 channel?1440 chamfer1565 flute1578 plough1594 seam1596 entrench1607 furrow1609 trench1624 groove1686 striate1709 quirk1797 stripe1842 engroove1880 1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. iv. 174 If the plaister fall..out from between the Timber..for want of grooving it round within side before the plaister be laid on. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 322/1 In these holes are threads of Screws grooved inwards. 1721 J. Swift George-Nim-Dan-Dean's Answer 28 One letter still another locks, Each groov'd and dove~tail'd like a box. 1751 W. Halfpenny & J. Halfpenny New Designs Chinese Bridges ii. 8 The side Timbers and middle Pieces..are gruv'd and bolted together. 1810 P. B. Shelley Zastrozzi i. 9 One end being grooved into the solid wall. 1845 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 2) 111 You see yon wretched starved old man; his brow Grooved out with wrinkles. 1870 J. Ruskin Lect. Art ii. 44 It may be possible to show the necessities of structure which groove the fangs..of the asp. 1899 Edinb. Rev. Apr. 316 A metamorphic rock..rent by earthquakes, fissured, grooved, eroded. 3. To cut in the form of a groove or channel; to excavate (a channel). Also, to force itself along a channel. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > unevenness > condition or fact of receding > form a recess in [verb (transitive)] > form (a groove) plough1831 groove1866 1866 R. S. Storrs Serm. in Nat. Preacher (N.Y.) When the searching, scientific spirit awakens among men,..they..hunt the records that are grooved upon rocks. 1881 J. C. Shairp Aspects Poetry v. 128 High-pitched imagination and vivid emotion tend..to groove for themselves channels of language which are peculiar and unique. 1883 Cent. Mag. 27 146 The glacier moves silently,..grooving the record of its being on the world itself. 1890 H. M. Stanley In Darkest Afr. II. xxviii. 259 The Rami-lulu [river] had eventually furrowed and grooved itself deeply through. 4. a. passive and intransitive. To fit or be fitted as into a groove. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > be or become joined together [verb (intransitive)] > fit closely together > as in a groove groove1854 1854 T. De Quincey On War in Select. Grave & Gay IV. 271 Phenomena of chance growth, not..so grooved into the dark necessities of our nature, as we had all taken for granted. 1886 C. Gibbon Clare of Claresmede I. ix. 109 Sheldon adjoined Winston, and would groove into that estate nicely. b. figurative. To settle or be settled into (or in) a routine of work, habit, etc. Also with down. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > act habitually [verb (intransitive)] > get into a routine groove1866 1866 J. Conington Let. 28 June in Misc. Writ. (1872) I. p. lvi I am grooving down into work here. 1879 J. A. Froude Cæsar ii. 10 Morality thus engrained in the national character and grooved into habits of action creates strength, as nothing else creates it. 1922 A. S. M. Hutchinson This Freedom i. v She found Anna grooved in the business of helping her mother in the house. 5. intransitive. To play jazz or similar music with ‘swing’; to be ‘in the groove’ (see groove n. 4b); to dance or listen to such music with great pleasure; hence, to make good progress or co-operate; to get on well with someone; to make love. Also transitive, to play (music) swingingly; to give pleasure to (a person). slang (originally U.S.). ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > amorous love > be in love [verb (intransitive)] > get on well, co-operate groove1935 the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > be friendly [verb (intransitive)] > get on (well) gree?a1513 to get in with1602 cotton1605 to hitch (also set, or stable) horses together1617 to hit it1634 gee1685 to set horses together1685 to be made for each other (also one another)1751 to hit it off1780 to get ona1805 to hitch horses together1835 niggle1837 to step together1866 to speak (also talk) someone's (also the same) language1893 to stall with1897 cog1926 groove1935 click1954 vibe1986 society > leisure > the arts > music > music appreciation > music lover > music loving or appreciative [verb (intransitive)] groove1935 society > leisure > the arts > music > music appreciation > music lover > music loving or appreciative [verb (transitive)] groove1935 society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > perform music [verb (intransitive)] > specific style or technique > in jazz go1926 ride1929 swing1931 tear1932 to play (it) straight1933 groove1935 riff1935 give1936 jumpc1938 to beat it out1945 walk1951 cook1954 move1955 wail1955 stretch1961 society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > perform (music) [verb (transitive)] > specific style or technique > in jazz sock1927 groove1935 swing1936 to put down1952 1935 Vanity Fair Nov. 38/1 That's the third date we've grooved half a dozen schmaltzy tunes. 1937 in Amer. Speech 12 182/1 Men who can lay on sugar or groove it. 1945 ‘Dizzy’ Gillespie (title of tune) Groovin' high. 1959 Esquire Nov. 70 I To groove someone means to provide them with enjoyment. Example: Her singing grooved me. 1960 Melody Maker 31 Dec. 11/5 (title of record) Benny Golson ‘Groovin' with Golson’. 1967 Observer 4 Dec. (Colour Suppl.) 28 Groove, make good progress, co-operate. 1967 Melody Maker 16 Dec. 10/7 The rhythm section..grooves along in true Basie manner. 1968 Listener 5 Sept. 306/3 The radio Peel is quiet, self-mocking, sardonic and scornful of the ‘let's move and groove to this latest gas group from Croydon’ school of presentation. 1970 New Yorker 14 May 34/2 Sad Arthur put away his boots and helmet..to stay in Nutley and groove with the fair Lambie. 1970 Observer 24 May 40/6 We're trying to get humanity to transcend its cultural limitations and groove with it. 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