groove

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Essentially, this groove is an intentional, controlled crack placed in the concrete to CONTROL JOINT preclude the concrete's cracking on its own, in an uncontrolled manner.

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  1. noun A long narrow furrow or channel.
  2. noun The spiral track cut into a phonograph record for the stylus to follow.
  3. noun Slang A settled routine: got into the groove of a nine-to-five job.
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  • The fact was that a fine rope was attached from the Tower of the Church to the stake, and a piece of board with a deep grove underneath having been securely strapped to the “aviator,” the groove was then balanced upon the rope, and the action of the man's arms sufficed to set it in motion. —  The Letter-Bag of Lady Elizabeth Spencer-Stanhope v. I
  • The group lays down the rock-steady groove, a style of Jamaican music that was a successor to ska and precursor to reggae, at Tipitina's as a part of its Free Fridays series.
  • Getting into the tourist groove, the next day we went to Sugar Loaf Mountain (aka Pao de Açucar). —  TravelPod.com Recent Updates
  • But now that things are in a pretty good groove, the majority of activity on this site is straight forward blogging, and Wordpress handles that very nicely. —  UrbanWorkbench
  • Those in the middle will be lulled by the happy groove, the groovy bods, and the beat.
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indentation ·  slot ·  fissure ·  rut ·  furrow ·  crack ·  notch ·  hole ·  ridge ·  shaft ·  channel ·  pin

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groove:   grooves
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English groof, mining shaft, probably from Middle Dutch groeve, ditch; see ghrebh-2 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English grōfe (rare), a pit (Anglo-Saxon *grōf not found), = Old Dutch groeve, a furrow, Dutch groeve, groef, a channel, groove, furrow, a grave, = Old High German gruoba, Middle High German gruobe, German grube, a pit, hole, cavity, ditch, grave, = Icelandic grōf, a pit (hnakka-grōf, the pit in the back of the neck), = Danish grube = Swedish grufva = Gothic (Moesogothic) grōba, a pit, hole, from Gothic (Moesogothic) graban, Anglo-Saxon grafan (preterit grōf), English grave, etc., dig: see grave, and cf. grave and grove.
  2. = Dutch groeven = Middle High German gruoben = Old Danish gruve; from the noun.
 

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