Definition of groove in English:

groove

noun ɡruːvɡruv

1A long, narrow cut or depression in a hard material.
Example sentencesExamples
- There, the mason had to lie on his stomach in a narrow groove, working his tools horizontally, chips and limestone dust dropping in front of his face.
- The grooves are the depressions in the rifling.
- Some use ordinary concrete blocks without the special groove and with no wires.
- The crampons scraped across the kitchen floor, cutting grooves into the wood.
- Further addition of membrane materials fully hides these grooves.
- Use a foot with narrower grooves on lightweight fabrics, and one with wider grooves on mediumweight fabrics.
- The teeth of the two large crocodile species known to live then were too blunt and too irregularly spaced to have produced the narrow grooves found on the Majungatholus bones.
- And that is why we are having a very hard look at the grooves on club-faces right now.
- She took her key-ring out as she walked towards her car, unknowingly shifting them around between her fingers feeling for the grooves of the correct key.
- The dies have a series of grooves and depressions cut into them and the work piece is passed in sequence through a shaping series.
- The water comes into the center of the block along a special groove and goes out into the output fitting.
- The biceps tendon was displaced from its groove anteriorly but remained intact.
- Some of these channels were as wide as rivers, others narrow grooves.
- The kneecap rides in a specific groove of the thighbone, and if the muscles are unbalanced, pain can begin from the kneecap grinding on the groove the wrong way.
- It then opens its mouth slightly and by expanding and contracting its throat grooves and retracting its huge tongue creates a powerful suction to suck up the food-filled sediment.
- The grooves are slightly offset so as the upper assembly moves forward, the cylinder is forced to engage the correct groove with the stud.
- The woman's face is almost square, her jaw and cheekbones wide, her mouth a groove with calm, correct corners.
- Neural groove and folds emerge about 7 to 8 days after oviposition.
- Standard installation calls for a special block with a groove along the top edge.
- You see the city as a solid mass in which there have been carved narrow grooves, criss-crossing this stone block thousands of times.
Synonyms
furrow, channel, trench, trough, canal, gouge, hollow, indentation, rut, gutter, cutting, cut, score, fissure, seam
technical rabbet, rebate
1. 1.1 A spiral track cut in a record, into which the stylus fits.
  （唱片的）纹（道）
  Example sentencesExamples
  They may rely on as simple an explanation as that of a print of a coin in wax, or they may, like Wittgenstein, use examples such as the structural analogy between music and the groove in a gramophone record.
  With a typical pop/rock record, the groove will be 2.5 mils (thousands of an inch) wide, and will move from side to side a total of 2.5 mils.
  He correctly identified 20 out of 20 recordings just by studying the record grooves.
  Of course, the smaller groove also required a smaller needle, and that, too, was made possible by World War II materials technology.
  Anyway, the way it worked was that this needle scratched around the grooves of the disc and the vibrations were translated into sound.
2. 1.2Climbing An indentation where two planes of rock meet at an angle of more than 120°.
  〔登山〕（两块平面岩石交角大于120度的）岩壁凹陷处
  Example sentencesExamples
  Continue up the groove / cracks finishing more easily up the right-facing corner.
  Climb the groove to below the steep wall on The Pinnacles.
  Climb the groove on rock then grass until you are level with a scary looking traverse back to the left.
  Climb out of the groove on the right and make a long reach to gain easier ground.
  Climb the crack / grooves with continual interest until the top - at the top either continue vertically or traverse leftwards around the bulge.
2An established routine or habit.
常规；习惯
his thoughts were slipping into a familiar groove
他的思想正不知不觉地转向习惯的模式。
Example sentencesExamples
- We are also trying to set up a group to rejuvenate the joy of learning among educated adults stuck in a groove.
- But that will - it will get me into the work groove.
- Both were above average, and when Milton got in a groove, he displayed flashes of brilliance.
- If Japan can keep growing and get its competitive groove back, more and more Japanese might feel confident enough about their economic future to splurge.
- His texts resist settling into established grooves of interpretation, and continue to engage new readers because this powerful, animated, and sometimes contradictory thinking lies so close to the surface.
- Two of the best players in the NBA not only have fallen into an amazing groove of leading the way, they've learned when and how to give way to their supporting cast.
- That means I welcome debate from any side of the political fence but not cheap shots or sloganeering which will derail the conversation - or rather rail it - into the usual grooves.
- When people start to speak from habit they enter into those well worn grooves of social conformity and confirmation.
- I prefer articles which are provocative to those which follow well-worn grooves because I think the development of critical thinking is important to good debate.
- What with returning to work and trying to get back into the work groove and so on… it's not been pretty.
- Like any habit, once a groove is established, it is often difficult to change, and changing is even harder if it means you'll have to use less weight.
Synonyms
rut, routine, boring routine, habit, dead end, humdrum existence, same old round, grind, daily grind, treadmill
3informal A particular rhythm in popular or jazz music.
〈非正式〉流行乐（或爵士乐）节奏模式
her vocals drift delicately across a soaring soul groove
Example sentencesExamples
- They have developed a large following who enjoy the band's strong harmonies and arrangements, vibrant performance and delightful repertoire of jazz standards, Latin grooves and swing.
- The grooves, beats and samples are all too cool to believe that someone could've assembled these tracks for release.
- The dual vocals over heavy groove riffs and head-nodding rhythms are as fluid as ever.
- These albums were groundbreaking explorations into chilled electronica, infused with jazzy grooves and live orchestration.
- Consequently, the music and grooves are the same jazzy funk that this erstwhile folksinger has been exploring over her past few albums.
- Are you more into the hardcore rap or more for the groove in hip-hop?
- This album is pure laid back grooves, acoustic guitars, and blissed out melodies.
- The album differs from their earlier punchy efforts, concentrating on developing strong grooves laced in reverb and echoes at a leisurely-relaxed tempo.
- On the contrary, the passion that bursts forth from these grooves enables the music to come fully alive three decades later.
- His music embraces the traditional sounds of Mali along with American blues, Cuban-influenced grooves, jazz riffs, flamenco, calypso and Arab-influenced vocals.
- The album itself is dominated by light jazzy grooves, but is often rudely interrupted by snatches of TV, radio, and roughly sampled sounds.
- She fronted an enormously talented bunch of individuals who generated a seamless blend of urban soul and funky grooves.
- The quartet showed greater musical range than their predecessors, with songs ranging from barbiturate-induced hallucinations to upbeat, jazzy grooves.
- Combining authentic retro tunes of the 60's with the new upbeat grooves of the 80's, the soundtrack moves along at a cracking pace through the decades.
- They, unfortunately, seem more content on alternating between dirge-like arrangements and angular riffs and grooves.
- Driven by the barest resources of rhythm and groove, amongst discordant guitar shards and electronic noise, the song brings the album's diesel start to a grind.
- Having said that, there's probably something here for everyone - from gutsy funk to latino grooves and deep soul moves.
- Here they seem to have at last begun honing their ability to ride a simple groove at a moderate pace.
- Their search for the perfect beat has resulted in a series of sound experiments packed with cyclic grooves and hypnotic rhythms.
- Many of the pieces ride on spare, quietly insistent pulses that owe as much to dub or African grooves as to jazz.
Synonyms
rhythm, beat, pulse, cadence, pace, rhythmical flow, rhythmical pattern, measure, metre, tempo, lilt

verb ɡruːvɡruv

1with object Make a groove or grooves in.
在…上开出沟（或槽等）
deep lines grooved her face
皱纹深深地刻在她的脸上。
Example sentencesExamples
- Stainless steel kitchen sinks with deep washbowls and grooved draining boards, made washing up much easier after a meal.
- Bare hills and mountains are grooved with swirling lines of erosion while an almost endless ribbon of palms meanders from one village to the next.
- All of the properties have either private balconies, rear patio access or both - the balconies feature grooved timber decking with decorative timber handrails and balustrading.
- For instance, one of the overhead cubby holes was grooved to form a CD-rack, which was very handy and would have been even more so had the car come with a CD player.
- Another half-mile along the top wall and we reach a ladder stile and the descent, which is all in a sunken path and takes you past the crag-line and steeply down into some interesting rough and grooved terrain.
- We've had grooved tyres and smaller tyres and we're still increasing the aerodynamic performance of the tyres and I think its probably the wrong route.
- There's a lanyard loop (don't laugh, they make perfect sense, especially for a hard-working gun) and the grip frame is grooved on the rear and front straps to enhance your grip.
- Their conical surface was grooved onto which we had to turn tightly a meter or so of a thick white string.
- Now, the branch is grooved enough (like all the other good climbing trees) so I can hold on without fear.
- After making what I thought was a good assessment of the radio, I placed the broken metal saw blade on top of the screw and started grooving a notch into the screw head.
- Our table, the lower of the two, was grooved which held crumbs.
- And, talking of ruts, the landscape here is grooved with many prehistoric ones.
- On its old-fashioned white grooved notice-board, the black letters are arranged to spell out slogans - not about wine, but about larger issues.
- The black and white images suggested a lunar surface with bright elevated land masses, grooved by sloping drainage channels and seemingly surrounded by dark, still pools of oily liquid.
- You can get a definite improvement by fitting grooved discs at £114 per pair and enhance this by fitting better pads at £38 a set.
- The three rooms were lined with sweet-smelling tongued and grooved cypress.
- Many ungulates have also evolved large, complexly grooved molar teeth to grind their food of grasses and other plants.
- Grinding the mortar bed joints is a simpler task than grooving the masonry units.
- Adjustable pliers open to various widths, and the gripping surface of the jaw is grooved for a stronger hold.
- Make sure the rod guides are not grooved as they will quickly damage your fly line.
2informal no object Dance or listen to popular or jazz music.
〈非正式〉流行乐（或爵士乐）节奏模式
they were grooving to Motown
他们跟着《汽车城》这支曲子的节拍跳舞。
Example sentencesExamples
- They was receiving a much better response inside the Docks, where club kids were grooving to their trippy ambient dub.
- However, I'm wondering if there's something wrong with me for grooving to the opening theme as much as I do?
- Although, I think a major part of it were the people, those who were pretending to be enjoying this violent scene, along with dancing and grooving to music with profane lyrics - violent in content towards women and others.
- I was grooving to them, thinking they were a nice local band to follow.
- Everyone seemed to be grooving to the music, or at least tapping a foot.
- Several hundred people, maybe even a thousand, were grooving to salsa tunes.
- They were America's early contribution to the punk rock scene, when everybody else was grooving to Brit pop heroes like Elton John and Peter Frampton.
- The crowd here is very young but they are grooving to a 50-something man.
- Just a bunch of college kids grooving to bad dance music, acting immature and possibly drinking underage.
- And not just any love - he's grooving to the sweet joy of the perfect pop song from 1970.
- The dance floor is packed with sweaty, tanned and gorgeous disco hedonists grooving to a mix of Top 40 chart beats as well as more eclectic New York-meets-LA club tunes.
- This is a name that should be at the top of your shopping list, no matter what styles of music you're currently grooving to.
- His shoulders began to groove to the beat as his breath flowed through his vocal chords, voicing the lyrics in a low baritone.
- The food was fantastic, what little of it I managed to find the time and appetite to eat, and the bartenders were a laugh, grooving to the music and pouring extremely generous measures of rum and vodka.
- A cool hip hop DJ was playing and grooving all night.
- Picture your humble narrator reading a book, grooving to Janis Joplin being played over the speakers, nursing a cup of coffee and digging into a fantastic chicken pesto crepe, and doing his best to resist the potatoes with sour cream.
- But she isn't planning on grooving to any of her beats in the clubs soon.
- I was totally grooving to this sound way before any of them.
- Now, I love nothing more than being in a jazz bar with an apple martini in hand, grooving to the music.
- She found her in the center of the masses, grooving to the music, almost oblivious to everything around her.
1. 2.1 Play popular or jazz music in an accomplished manner.
  〈旧〉出色地演奏（尤指节奏持续不变的）流行乐（或爵士乐）
  the rhythm section grooves in the true Basie manner
  节奏乐器组以典型的巴锡风格出色地演奏。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The rhythm section groove mightily; Parker can light a fire underneath pretty much any band and his solidity is typically elemental here.
  And true to its name, it grooves from start to finish.
  Clearly he enjoyed the opportunity to groove with young musicians, and judging by his gracious, charming attitude he was as happy as ever to let a crowd in on the fun.
2. 2.2 Enjoy oneself.
  过得快活
  Harley relaxed and began to groove
  哈利放松下来开始享受生活。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The show has always grooved in the cerebral and quixotic, which often translates to slow.
  They even rented a couple of them out on a monthly basis, including one to a local New York University student, who grooved on living in a cabin on lower Broadway.
  We saved them from themselves, and now we're all enjoying ourselves, having a ball and grooving on comic-book movies.
  Synonyms
  have fun, have a good time, enjoy life, be happy, live, live life to the full, have the time of one's life
3Baseball
informal with object Pitch (a ball) in the centre of the strike zone.
〔棒球〕〈非正式〉投（球）至最易击打的好球部位
he grooved a fastball in the 9th inning
Example sentencesExamples
- Instead of pitching around him and setting up a force at any base, he grooved one and the batter produced a two-run single.
- He used to groove fastballs when men were on base.
- Fans who debate whether he grooved a home-run pitch to Cal Ripken in the All-Star Game are missing the true scandal.
- But until he relaxes in the batter's box and stops diving for pitches, opposing pitchers aren't going to groove any fastballs his way.
- I seem to recall that when he was stopped after hitting in 44 straight games, he said the opposing pitcher should have grooved him a fastball right down the heart of the strike zone so he could continue his streak.
1. 3.1North American (in the context of other sports) kick or throw (the ball) successfully; score (a goal) with stylish ease.
  〈北美〉用于棒球以外的运动成功地踢（或掷）（球）；出色地进球得（分）
  the San Diego kicker grooved the winning field goal
  圣地亚哥队队员成功地踢进了那个决定胜负的定位球（飞越球门横木得3分的球）。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Harrington, who had been misfiring badly on his out patterns, finally grooved a tight one into his big receiver Roy Williams.
  Accelerate the putter down the line, and you'll groove a sound stroke.
  At one point he grooves a serve that recalls the mop-haired pro from Tennessee.
  He got seeing so good that he was grooving the ball right down the middle all the time.

Phrases

in (or into) the groove

1informal Performing consistently well or confidently.
〈非正式〉始终表现出色的；一贯自信心足的
it might take me a couple of races to get back into the groove
也许要经过几场比赛我才能恢复最佳状态。
Example sentencesExamples
- As a result both have had periods where goals have proved hard to come by, but the pair look to be back in the groove and it has certainly given him reason to be confident about what the team can achieve this season.
- After a few days of getting lost, and teachers starting to know my name based on that simple fact, I eventually got into the groove of things.
- ‘It's been tough all year to get in the groove and get confident,’ he says.
- He has resorted to that long putter to get his performances back into the groove.
- A musician himself, he first discusses the experiences had by musicians who are in the groove, who are performing at their peak as it all comes together.
- If I don't work out for a few days, I don't want to get back into the groove for a week sometimes and then WHEN I get back to it, my strength and fitness has really fallen off and it's a big drag to try to get back to the level you were at.
- I'm sure I'll be a bit rusty on the first couple of stages, but it won't take long to get back into the groove.
- They were, of course, splendid, well into the groove.
- The prospect of having just one week to pick themselves up, repair shattered morale, and get everyone back into the groove before taking on Clare in the first round of the championship was uninviting to say the very least.
- While he started out shaky, as he's done in his previous performances, he got into the groove quickly and stuck with it through the end of the song.
1. 1.1Enjoying oneself, especially by dancing.
  get into the groove!
  尽情跳吧！
  Example sentencesExamples
  It's that time of the year when students like to get into the groove.
  Just as the music-loving crowd, a majority of them youngsters, were getting into the groove with some static jiving, the stars arrived.
  Once she got into the groove, she started to smile and play happily and run through the garden in the late afternoon screaming at the top of her lungs into the wind just for fun.
  The pop and rap stars of the future get into the groove from 7.30 pm.
  The young performers had their proud parents beaming and the other guests charmed once they got into the groove.
  The gathering getting into the groove couldn't have asked for more than the heady mix of these two performers on a single platform.
  Just as the crowd was getting into the groove - the band had just played a fantastic jazz number that truly showed off their wealth of musical talent - the performance ended.
  Feel the rhythm and get into the groove.
  Switch it off and head out because Montreal's dance scene is finally getting back into the groove after a long summer drought.
  Head to the snowy slopes this winter and get into the groove with some skiing as this week's fab gear swishes and slides through the winter wonderland of the ski suit.

Derivatives

groover

noun

So if you want to be sure to have fun the next time you go to Germany, ask a local where a good club is - being the groovers they are, they're bound to know.
Example sentencesExamples
- Standout groovers include ‘Inside Your Soul’ and ‘Black Jazz.’
- The pair used to be friends, back when they were the young groovers of our literary scene.
- Young groovers were dancing up a storm to raise money for a children's charity.
- Infectious tropical groovers with a hint of rumba-flavoured funk are presented in a seamlessly blended big-room format.

Origin

Middle English (denoting a mine or shaft): from Dutch groeve 'furrow, pit'; related to grave¹.

In early use a groove was a mine, shaft, or pit. The word comes from Dutch groeve ‘furrow or pit’, and is related to grave (Old English). From the 17th century it was used to refer to a channel or furrow cut in something and, in the 20th century, a spiral track cut into a record into which the stylus fits. The latter sense lies behind the phrase in the groove, ‘performing consistently well or confidently’, which was first used of jazz musicians and dates back to the 1930s. This is also where we get the adjective groovy from, first recorded meaning ‘excellent’ in the 1930s, specifically in the context of playing jazz well. Groovy was a teenage slang term by the 1940s and became prominent in the 1960s. It was revived by Mike Myers in the Austin Powers film spoofs.

Rhymes

approve, improve, move, prove, you've

Definition of groove in US English:

groove

nounɡruvɡro͞ov

1A long, narrow cut or depression, especially one made to guide motion or receive a corresponding ridge.
导轨，槽
Example sentencesExamples
- She took her key-ring out as she walked towards her car, unknowingly shifting them around between her fingers feeling for the grooves of the correct key.
- The kneecap rides in a specific groove of the thighbone, and if the muscles are unbalanced, pain can begin from the kneecap grinding on the groove the wrong way.
- You see the city as a solid mass in which there have been carved narrow grooves, criss-crossing this stone block thousands of times.
- The teeth of the two large crocodile species known to live then were too blunt and too irregularly spaced to have produced the narrow grooves found on the Majungatholus bones.
- The crampons scraped across the kitchen floor, cutting grooves into the wood.
- And that is why we are having a very hard look at the grooves on club-faces right now.
- There, the mason had to lie on his stomach in a narrow groove, working his tools horizontally, chips and limestone dust dropping in front of his face.
- The woman's face is almost square, her jaw and cheekbones wide, her mouth a groove with calm, correct corners.
- Further addition of membrane materials fully hides these grooves.
- The grooves are slightly offset so as the upper assembly moves forward, the cylinder is forced to engage the correct groove with the stud.
- Standard installation calls for a special block with a groove along the top edge.
- The dies have a series of grooves and depressions cut into them and the work piece is passed in sequence through a shaping series.
- The water comes into the center of the block along a special groove and goes out into the output fitting.
- Use a foot with narrower grooves on lightweight fabrics, and one with wider grooves on mediumweight fabrics.
- The grooves are the depressions in the rifling.
- The biceps tendon was displaced from its groove anteriorly but remained intact.
- It then opens its mouth slightly and by expanding and contracting its throat grooves and retracting its huge tongue creates a powerful suction to suck up the food-filled sediment.
- Neural groove and folds emerge about 7 to 8 days after oviposition.
- Some of these channels were as wide as rivers, others narrow grooves.
- Some use ordinary concrete blocks without the special groove and with no wires.
Synonyms
furrow, channel, trench, trough, canal, gouge, hollow, indentation, rut, gutter, cutting, cut, score, fissure, seam
1. 1.1 A spiral track cut in a phonograph record, into which the stylus fits.
  （唱片的）纹（道）
  Example sentencesExamples
  Of course, the smaller groove also required a smaller needle, and that, too, was made possible by World War II materials technology.
  With a typical pop/rock record, the groove will be 2.5 mils (thousands of an inch) wide, and will move from side to side a total of 2.5 mils.
  He correctly identified 20 out of 20 recordings just by studying the record grooves.
  Anyway, the way it worked was that this needle scratched around the grooves of the disc and the vibrations were translated into sound.
  They may rely on as simple an explanation as that of a print of a coin in wax, or they may, like Wittgenstein, use examples such as the structural analogy between music and the groove in a gramophone record.
2. 1.2Climbing An indentation where two planes of rock meet at an angle of more than 120°.
  〔登山〕（两块平面岩石交角大于120度的）岩壁凹陷处
  Example sentencesExamples
  Climb the groove to below the steep wall on The Pinnacles.
  Climb the groove on rock then grass until you are level with a scary looking traverse back to the left.
  Continue up the groove / cracks finishing more easily up the right-facing corner.
  Climb the crack / grooves with continual interest until the top - at the top either continue vertically or traverse leftwards around the bulge.
  Climb out of the groove on the right and make a long reach to gain easier ground.
2An established routine or habit.
常规；习惯
his thoughts were slipping into a familiar groove
他的思想正不知不觉地转向习惯的模式。
Example sentencesExamples
- Like any habit, once a groove is established, it is often difficult to change, and changing is even harder if it means you'll have to use less weight.
- I prefer articles which are provocative to those which follow well-worn grooves because I think the development of critical thinking is important to good debate.
- If Japan can keep growing and get its competitive groove back, more and more Japanese might feel confident enough about their economic future to splurge.
- Both were above average, and when Milton got in a groove, he displayed flashes of brilliance.
- Two of the best players in the NBA not only have fallen into an amazing groove of leading the way, they've learned when and how to give way to their supporting cast.
- That means I welcome debate from any side of the political fence but not cheap shots or sloganeering which will derail the conversation - or rather rail it - into the usual grooves.
- But that will - it will get me into the work groove.
- What with returning to work and trying to get back into the work groove and so on… it's not been pretty.
- When people start to speak from habit they enter into those well worn grooves of social conformity and confirmation.
- We are also trying to set up a group to rejuvenate the joy of learning among educated adults stuck in a groove.
- His texts resist settling into established grooves of interpretation, and continue to engage new readers because this powerful, animated, and sometimes contradictory thinking lies so close to the surface.
Synonyms
rut, routine, boring routine, habit, dead end, humdrum existence, same old round, grind, daily grind, treadmill
3informal A rhythmic pattern in popular or jazz music.
〈非正式〉流行乐（或爵士乐）节奏模式
the groove laid down by the drummer and bassist is tough and funky
由鼓手和低音吉他手奠定的节奏激烈而且时髦。
Example sentencesExamples
- The quartet showed greater musical range than their predecessors, with songs ranging from barbiturate-induced hallucinations to upbeat, jazzy grooves.
- The album differs from their earlier punchy efforts, concentrating on developing strong grooves laced in reverb and echoes at a leisurely-relaxed tempo.
- His music embraces the traditional sounds of Mali along with American blues, Cuban-influenced grooves, jazz riffs, flamenco, calypso and Arab-influenced vocals.
- Their search for the perfect beat has resulted in a series of sound experiments packed with cyclic grooves and hypnotic rhythms.
- Consequently, the music and grooves are the same jazzy funk that this erstwhile folksinger has been exploring over her past few albums.
- The grooves, beats and samples are all too cool to believe that someone could've assembled these tracks for release.
- Driven by the barest resources of rhythm and groove, amongst discordant guitar shards and electronic noise, the song brings the album's diesel start to a grind.
- They have developed a large following who enjoy the band's strong harmonies and arrangements, vibrant performance and delightful repertoire of jazz standards, Latin grooves and swing.
- This album is pure laid back grooves, acoustic guitars, and blissed out melodies.
- The dual vocals over heavy groove riffs and head-nodding rhythms are as fluid as ever.
- On the contrary, the passion that bursts forth from these grooves enables the music to come fully alive three decades later.
- Are you more into the hardcore rap or more for the groove in hip-hop?
- Combining authentic retro tunes of the 60's with the new upbeat grooves of the 80's, the soundtrack moves along at a cracking pace through the decades.
- Having said that, there's probably something here for everyone - from gutsy funk to latino grooves and deep soul moves.
- They, unfortunately, seem more content on alternating between dirge-like arrangements and angular riffs and grooves.
- These albums were groundbreaking explorations into chilled electronica, infused with jazzy grooves and live orchestration.
- Many of the pieces ride on spare, quietly insistent pulses that owe as much to dub or African grooves as to jazz.
- Here they seem to have at last begun honing their ability to ride a simple groove at a moderate pace.
- The album itself is dominated by light jazzy grooves, but is often rudely interrupted by snatches of TV, radio, and roughly sampled sounds.
- She fronted an enormously talented bunch of individuals who generated a seamless blend of urban soul and funky grooves.
Synonyms
rhythm, beat, pulse, cadence, pace, rhythmical flow, rhythmical pattern, measure, metre, tempo, lilt

verbɡruvɡro͞ov

1with object Make a groove or grooves in.
在…上开出沟（或槽等）
deep lines grooved her face
皱纹深深地刻在她的脸上。
Example sentencesExamples
- After making what I thought was a good assessment of the radio, I placed the broken metal saw blade on top of the screw and started grooving a notch into the screw head.
- You can get a definite improvement by fitting grooved discs at £114 per pair and enhance this by fitting better pads at £38 a set.
- The black and white images suggested a lunar surface with bright elevated land masses, grooved by sloping drainage channels and seemingly surrounded by dark, still pools of oily liquid.
- For instance, one of the overhead cubby holes was grooved to form a CD-rack, which was very handy and would have been even more so had the car come with a CD player.
- On its old-fashioned white grooved notice-board, the black letters are arranged to spell out slogans - not about wine, but about larger issues.
- Adjustable pliers open to various widths, and the gripping surface of the jaw is grooved for a stronger hold.
- Another half-mile along the top wall and we reach a ladder stile and the descent, which is all in a sunken path and takes you past the crag-line and steeply down into some interesting rough and grooved terrain.
- Our table, the lower of the two, was grooved which held crumbs.
- The three rooms were lined with sweet-smelling tongued and grooved cypress.
- Grinding the mortar bed joints is a simpler task than grooving the masonry units.
- Bare hills and mountains are grooved with swirling lines of erosion while an almost endless ribbon of palms meanders from one village to the next.
- Their conical surface was grooved onto which we had to turn tightly a meter or so of a thick white string.
- And, talking of ruts, the landscape here is grooved with many prehistoric ones.
- All of the properties have either private balconies, rear patio access or both - the balconies feature grooved timber decking with decorative timber handrails and balustrading.
- Many ungulates have also evolved large, complexly grooved molar teeth to grind their food of grasses and other plants.
- We've had grooved tyres and smaller tyres and we're still increasing the aerodynamic performance of the tyres and I think its probably the wrong route.
- Stainless steel kitchen sinks with deep washbowls and grooved draining boards, made washing up much easier after a meal.
- There's a lanyard loop (don't laugh, they make perfect sense, especially for a hard-working gun) and the grip frame is grooved on the rear and front straps to enhance your grip.
- Make sure the rod guides are not grooved as they will quickly damage your fly line.
- Now, the branch is grooved enough (like all the other good climbing trees) so I can hold on without fear.
2informal no object Dance or listen to popular or jazz music, especially that with an insistent rhythm.
〈非正式〉欣赏（尤指长时间持续同一节奏的）流行乐（或爵士乐）；跟着（长时间持续同一节奏的）流行乐（或爵士乐）跳舞
they were grooving to Motown
他们跟着《汽车城》这支曲子的节拍跳舞。
Example sentencesExamples
- The crowd here is very young but they are grooving to a 50-something man.
- However, I'm wondering if there's something wrong with me for grooving to the opening theme as much as I do?
- I was totally grooving to this sound way before any of them.
- A cool hip hop DJ was playing and grooving all night.
- And not just any love - he's grooving to the sweet joy of the perfect pop song from 1970.
- This is a name that should be at the top of your shopping list, no matter what styles of music you're currently grooving to.
- I was grooving to them, thinking they were a nice local band to follow.
- The food was fantastic, what little of it I managed to find the time and appetite to eat, and the bartenders were a laugh, grooving to the music and pouring extremely generous measures of rum and vodka.
- Just a bunch of college kids grooving to bad dance music, acting immature and possibly drinking underage.
- Now, I love nothing more than being in a jazz bar with an apple martini in hand, grooving to the music.
- Several hundred people, maybe even a thousand, were grooving to salsa tunes.
- But she isn't planning on grooving to any of her beats in the clubs soon.
- She found her in the center of the masses, grooving to the music, almost oblivious to everything around her.
- The dance floor is packed with sweaty, tanned and gorgeous disco hedonists grooving to a mix of Top 40 chart beats as well as more eclectic New York-meets-LA club tunes.
- They were America's early contribution to the punk rock scene, when everybody else was grooving to Brit pop heroes like Elton John and Peter Frampton.
- Although, I think a major part of it were the people, those who were pretending to be enjoying this violent scene, along with dancing and grooving to music with profane lyrics - violent in content towards women and others.
- His shoulders began to groove to the beat as his breath flowed through his vocal chords, voicing the lyrics in a low baritone.
- They was receiving a much better response inside the Docks, where club kids were grooving to their trippy ambient dub.
- Everyone seemed to be grooving to the music, or at least tapping a foot.
- Picture your humble narrator reading a book, grooving to Janis Joplin being played over the speakers, nursing a cup of coffee and digging into a fantastic chicken pesto crepe, and doing his best to resist the potatoes with sour cream.
1. 2.1 Play popular music in an accomplished and stylish manner.
  〈旧〉出色地演奏（尤指节奏持续不变的）流行乐（或爵士乐）
  the rhythm section grooves in the true Basie manner
  节奏乐器组以典型的巴锡风格出色地演奏。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Clearly he enjoyed the opportunity to groove with young musicians, and judging by his gracious, charming attitude he was as happy as ever to let a crowd in on the fun.
  And true to its name, it grooves from start to finish.
  The rhythm section groove mightily; Parker can light a fire underneath pretty much any band and his solidity is typically elemental here.
2. 2.2 Enjoy oneself.
  过得快活
  Harley relaxed and began to groove
  哈利放松下来开始享受生活。
  Example sentencesExamples
  They even rented a couple of them out on a monthly basis, including one to a local New York University student, who grooved on living in a cabin on lower Broadway.
  We saved them from themselves, and now we're all enjoying ourselves, having a ball and grooving on comic-book movies.
  The show has always grooved in the cerebral and quixotic, which often translates to slow.
  Synonyms
  have fun, have a good time, enjoy life, be happy, live, live life to the full, have the time of one's life
3Baseball
informal with object Pitch (a ball) in the center of the strike zone.
〔棒球〕〈非正式〉投（球）至最易击打的好球部位
Example sentencesExamples
- Instead of pitching around him and setting up a force at any base, he grooved one and the batter produced a two-run single.
- Fans who debate whether he grooved a home-run pitch to Cal Ripken in the All-Star Game are missing the true scandal.
- But until he relaxes in the batter's box and stops diving for pitches, opposing pitchers aren't going to groove any fastballs his way.
- He used to groove fastballs when men were on base.
- I seem to recall that when he was stopped after hitting in 44 straight games, he said the opposing pitcher should have grooved him a fastball right down the heart of the strike zone so he could continue his streak.
1. 3.1North American (in the context of other sports) kick or throw (the ball) successfully; score (a goal) with stylish ease.
  〈北美〉用于棒球以外的运动成功地踢（或掷）（球）；出色地进球得（分）
  the San Diego kicker grooved the winning field goal
  圣地亚哥队队员成功地踢进了那个决定胜负的定位球（飞越球门横木得3分的球）。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Harrington, who had been misfiring badly on his out patterns, finally grooved a tight one into his big receiver Roy Williams.
  Accelerate the putter down the line, and you'll groove a sound stroke.
  He got seeing so good that he was grooving the ball right down the middle all the time.
  At one point he grooves a serve that recalls the mop-haired pro from Tennessee.

Phrases

in (or into) the groove

1informal Performing consistently well or confidently.
〈非正式〉始终表现出色的；一贯自信心足的
it might take me a couple of races to get back into the groove
也许要经过几场比赛我才能恢复最佳状态。
Example sentencesExamples
- They were, of course, splendid, well into the groove.
- While he started out shaky, as he's done in his previous performances, he got into the groove quickly and stuck with it through the end of the song.
- ‘It's been tough all year to get in the groove and get confident,’ he says.
- The prospect of having just one week to pick themselves up, repair shattered morale, and get everyone back into the groove before taking on Clare in the first round of the championship was uninviting to say the very least.
- A musician himself, he first discusses the experiences had by musicians who are in the groove, who are performing at their peak as it all comes together.
- After a few days of getting lost, and teachers starting to know my name based on that simple fact, I eventually got into the groove of things.
- As a result both have had periods where goals have proved hard to come by, but the pair look to be back in the groove and it has certainly given him reason to be confident about what the team can achieve this season.
- He has resorted to that long putter to get his performances back into the groove.
- If I don't work out for a few days, I don't want to get back into the groove for a week sometimes and then WHEN I get back to it, my strength and fitness has really fallen off and it's a big drag to try to get back to the level you were at.
- I'm sure I'll be a bit rusty on the first couple of stages, but it won't take long to get back into the groove.
1. 1.1Indulging in relaxed and spontaneous enjoyment, especially dancing.
  尽情享受的（尤指沉醉在舞蹈中）
  get into the groove!
  尽情跳吧！
  Example sentencesExamples
  The young performers had their proud parents beaming and the other guests charmed once they got into the groove.
  It's that time of the year when students like to get into the groove.
  The gathering getting into the groove couldn't have asked for more than the heady mix of these two performers on a single platform.
  Switch it off and head out because Montreal's dance scene is finally getting back into the groove after a long summer drought.
  Just as the music-loving crowd, a majority of them youngsters, were getting into the groove with some static jiving, the stars arrived.
  Head to the snowy slopes this winter and get into the groove with some skiing as this week's fab gear swishes and slides through the winter wonderland of the ski suit.
  Feel the rhythm and get into the groove.
  Once she got into the groove, she started to smile and play happily and run through the garden in the late afternoon screaming at the top of her lungs into the wind just for fun.
  Just as the crowd was getting into the groove - the band had just played a fantastic jazz number that truly showed off their wealth of musical talent - the performance ended.
  The pop and rap stars of the future get into the groove from 7.30 pm.

Origin

Middle English (denoting a mine or shaft): from Dutch groeve ‘furrow, pit’; related to grave.

词汇	groove
释义	Definition of groove in English: groove noun ɡruːvɡruv 1A long, narrow cut or depression in a hard material. Example sentencesExamples There, the mason had to lie on his stomach in a narrow groove, working his tools horizontally, chips and limestone dust dropping in front of his face. The grooves are the depressions in the rifling. Some use ordinary concrete blocks without the special groove and with no wires. The crampons scraped across the kitchen floor, cutting grooves into the wood. Further addition of membrane materials fully hides these grooves. Use a foot with narrower grooves on lightweight fabrics, and one with wider grooves on mediumweight fabrics. The teeth of the two large crocodile species known to live then were too blunt and too irregularly spaced to have produced the narrow grooves found on the Majungatholus bones. And that is why we are having a very hard look at the grooves on club-faces right now. She took her key-ring out as she walked towards her car, unknowingly shifting them around between her fingers feeling for the grooves of the correct key. The dies have a series of grooves and depressions cut into them and the work piece is passed in sequence through a shaping series. The water comes into the center of the block along a special groove and goes out into the output fitting. The biceps tendon was displaced from its groove anteriorly but remained intact. Some of these channels were as wide as rivers, others narrow grooves. The kneecap rides in a specific groove of the thighbone, and if the muscles are unbalanced, pain can begin from the kneecap grinding on the groove the wrong way. It then opens its mouth slightly and by expanding and contracting its throat grooves and retracting its huge tongue creates a powerful suction to suck up the food-filled sediment. The grooves are slightly offset so as the upper assembly moves forward, the cylinder is forced to engage the correct groove with the stud. The woman's face is almost square, her jaw and cheekbones wide, her mouth a groove with calm, correct corners. Neural groove and folds emerge about 7 to 8 days after oviposition. Standard installation calls for a special block with a groove along the top edge. You see the city as a solid mass in which there have been carved narrow grooves, criss-crossing this stone block thousands of times. Synonyms furrow, channel, trench, trough, canal, gouge, hollow, indentation, rut, gutter, cutting, cut, score, fissure, seam technical rabbet, rebate 1.1 A spiral track cut in a record, into which the stylus fits. （唱片的）纹（道） Example sentencesExamples They may rely on as simple an explanation as that of a print of a coin in wax, or they may, like Wittgenstein, use examples such as the structural analogy between music and the groove in a gramophone record. With a typical pop/rock record, the groove will be 2.5 mils (thousands of an inch) wide, and will move from side to side a total of 2.5 mils. He correctly identified 20 out of 20 recordings just by studying the record grooves. Of course, the smaller groove also required a smaller needle, and that, too, was made possible by World War II materials technology. Anyway, the way it worked was that this needle scratched around the grooves of the disc and the vibrations were translated into sound. 1.2Climbing An indentation where two planes of rock meet at an angle of more than 120°. 〔登山〕（两块平面岩石交角大于120度的）岩壁凹陷处 Example sentencesExamples Continue up the groove / cracks finishing more easily up the right-facing corner. Climb the groove to below the steep wall on The Pinnacles. Climb the groove on rock then grass until you are level with a scary looking traverse back to the left. Climb out of the groove on the right and make a long reach to gain easier ground. Climb the crack / grooves with continual interest until the top - at the top either continue vertically or traverse leftwards around the bulge. 2An established routine or habit. 常规；习惯 his thoughts were slipping into a familiar groove 他的思想正不知不觉地转向习惯的模式。 Example sentencesExamples We are also trying to set up a group to rejuvenate the joy of learning among educated adults stuck in a groove. But that will - it will get me into the work groove. Both were above average, and when Milton got in a groove, he displayed flashes of brilliance. If Japan can keep growing and get its competitive groove back, more and more Japanese might feel confident enough about their economic future to splurge. His texts resist settling into established grooves of interpretation, and continue to engage new readers because this powerful, animated, and sometimes contradictory thinking lies so close to the surface. Two of the best players in the NBA not only have fallen into an amazing groove of leading the way, they've learned when and how to give way to their supporting cast. That means I welcome debate from any side of the political fence but not cheap shots or sloganeering which will derail the conversation - or rather rail it - into the usual grooves. When people start to speak from habit they enter into those well worn grooves of social conformity and confirmation. I prefer articles which are provocative to those which follow well-worn grooves because I think the development of critical thinking is important to good debate. What with returning to work and trying to get back into the work groove and so on… it's not been pretty. Like any habit, once a groove is established, it is often difficult to change, and changing is even harder if it means you'll have to use less weight. Synonyms rut, routine, boring routine, habit, dead end, humdrum existence, same old round, grind, daily grind, treadmill 3informal A particular rhythm in popular or jazz music. 〈非正式〉流行乐（或爵士乐）节奏模式 her vocals drift delicately across a soaring soul groove Example sentencesExamples They have developed a large following who enjoy the band's strong harmonies and arrangements, vibrant performance and delightful repertoire of jazz standards, Latin grooves and swing. The grooves, beats and samples are all too cool to believe that someone could've assembled these tracks for release. The dual vocals over heavy groove riffs and head-nodding rhythms are as fluid as ever. These albums were groundbreaking explorations into chilled electronica, infused with jazzy grooves and live orchestration. Consequently, the music and grooves are the same jazzy funk that this erstwhile folksinger has been exploring over her past few albums. Are you more into the hardcore rap or more for the groove in hip-hop? This album is pure laid back grooves, acoustic guitars, and blissed out melodies. The album differs from their earlier punchy efforts, concentrating on developing strong grooves laced in reverb and echoes at a leisurely-relaxed tempo. On the contrary, the passion that bursts forth from these grooves enables the music to come fully alive three decades later. His music embraces the traditional sounds of Mali along with American blues, Cuban-influenced grooves, jazz riffs, flamenco, calypso and Arab-influenced vocals. The album itself is dominated by light jazzy grooves, but is often rudely interrupted by snatches of TV, radio, and roughly sampled sounds. She fronted an enormously talented bunch of individuals who generated a seamless blend of urban soul and funky grooves. The quartet showed greater musical range than their predecessors, with songs ranging from barbiturate-induced hallucinations to upbeat, jazzy grooves. Combining authentic retro tunes of the 60's with the new upbeat grooves of the 80's, the soundtrack moves along at a cracking pace through the decades. They, unfortunately, seem more content on alternating between dirge-like arrangements and angular riffs and grooves. Driven by the barest resources of rhythm and groove, amongst discordant guitar shards and electronic noise, the song brings the album's diesel start to a grind. Having said that, there's probably something here for everyone - from gutsy funk to latino grooves and deep soul moves. Here they seem to have at last begun honing their ability to ride a simple groove at a moderate pace. Their search for the perfect beat has resulted in a series of sound experiments packed with cyclic grooves and hypnotic rhythms. Many of the pieces ride on spare, quietly insistent pulses that owe as much to dub or African grooves as to jazz. Synonyms rhythm, beat, pulse, cadence, pace, rhythmical flow, rhythmical pattern, measure, metre, tempo, lilt verb ɡruːvɡruv 1with object Make a groove or grooves in. 在…上开出沟（或槽等） deep lines grooved her face 皱纹深深地刻在她的脸上。 Example sentencesExamples Stainless steel kitchen sinks with deep washbowls and grooved draining boards, made washing up much easier after a meal. Bare hills and mountains are grooved with swirling lines of erosion while an almost endless ribbon of palms meanders from one village to the next. All of the properties have either private balconies, rear patio access or both - the balconies feature grooved timber decking with decorative timber handrails and balustrading. For instance, one of the overhead cubby holes was grooved to form a CD-rack, which was very handy and would have been even more so had the car come with a CD player. Another half-mile along the top wall and we reach a ladder stile and the descent, which is all in a sunken path and takes you past the crag-line and steeply down into some interesting rough and grooved terrain. We've had grooved tyres and smaller tyres and we're still increasing the aerodynamic performance of the tyres and I think its probably the wrong route. There's a lanyard loop (don't laugh, they make perfect sense, especially for a hard-working gun) and the grip frame is grooved on the rear and front straps to enhance your grip. Their conical surface was grooved onto which we had to turn tightly a meter or so of a thick white string. Now, the branch is grooved enough (like all the other good climbing trees) so I can hold on without fear. After making what I thought was a good assessment of the radio, I placed the broken metal saw blade on top of the screw and started grooving a notch into the screw head. Our table, the lower of the two, was grooved which held crumbs. And, talking of ruts, the landscape here is grooved with many prehistoric ones. On its old-fashioned white grooved notice-board, the black letters are arranged to spell out slogans - not about wine, but about larger issues. The black and white images suggested a lunar surface with bright elevated land masses, grooved by sloping drainage channels and seemingly surrounded by dark, still pools of oily liquid. You can get a definite improvement by fitting grooved discs at £114 per pair and enhance this by fitting better pads at £38 a set. The three rooms were lined with sweet-smelling tongued and grooved cypress. Many ungulates have also evolved large, complexly grooved molar teeth to grind their food of grasses and other plants. Grinding the mortar bed joints is a simpler task than grooving the masonry units. Adjustable pliers open to various widths, and the gripping surface of the jaw is grooved for a stronger hold. Make sure the rod guides are not grooved as they will quickly damage your fly line. 2informal no object Dance or listen to popular or jazz music. 〈非正式〉流行乐（或爵士乐）节奏模式 they were grooving to Motown 他们跟着《汽车城》这支曲子的节拍跳舞。 Example sentencesExamples They was receiving a much better response inside the Docks, where club kids were grooving to their trippy ambient dub. However, I'm wondering if there's something wrong with me for grooving to the opening theme as much as I do? Although, I think a major part of it were the people, those who were pretending to be enjoying this violent scene, along with dancing and grooving to music with profane lyrics - violent in content towards women and others. I was grooving to them, thinking they were a nice local band to follow. Everyone seemed to be grooving to the music, or at least tapping a foot. Several hundred people, maybe even a thousand, were grooving to salsa tunes. They were America's early contribution to the punk rock scene, when everybody else was grooving to Brit pop heroes like Elton John and Peter Frampton. The crowd here is very young but they are grooving to a 50-something man. Just a bunch of college kids grooving to bad dance music, acting immature and possibly drinking underage. And not just any love - he's grooving to the sweet joy of the perfect pop song from 1970. The dance floor is packed with sweaty, tanned and gorgeous disco hedonists grooving to a mix of Top 40 chart beats as well as more eclectic New York-meets-LA club tunes. This is a name that should be at the top of your shopping list, no matter what styles of music you're currently grooving to. His shoulders began to groove to the beat as his breath flowed through his vocal chords, voicing the lyrics in a low baritone. The food was fantastic, what little of it I managed to find the time and appetite to eat, and the bartenders were a laugh, grooving to the music and pouring extremely generous measures of rum and vodka. A cool hip hop DJ was playing and grooving all night. Picture your humble narrator reading a book, grooving to Janis Joplin being played over the speakers, nursing a cup of coffee and digging into a fantastic chicken pesto crepe, and doing his best to resist the potatoes with sour cream. But she isn't planning on grooving to any of her beats in the clubs soon. I was totally grooving to this sound way before any of them. Now, I love nothing more than being in a jazz bar with an apple martini in hand, grooving to the music. She found her in the center of the masses, grooving to the music, almost oblivious to everything around her. 2.1 Play popular or jazz music in an accomplished manner. 〈旧〉出色地演奏（尤指节奏持续不变的）流行乐（或爵士乐） the rhythm section grooves in the true Basie manner 节奏乐器组以典型的巴锡风格出色地演奏。 Example sentencesExamples The rhythm section groove mightily; Parker can light a fire underneath pretty much any band and his solidity is typically elemental here. And true to its name, it grooves from start to finish. Clearly he enjoyed the opportunity to groove with young musicians, and judging by his gracious, charming attitude he was as happy as ever to let a crowd in on the fun. 2.2 Enjoy oneself. 过得快活 Harley relaxed and began to groove 哈利放松下来开始享受生活。 Example sentencesExamples The show has always grooved in the cerebral and quixotic, which often translates to slow. They even rented a couple of them out on a monthly basis, including one to a local New York University student, who grooved on living in a cabin on lower Broadway. We saved them from themselves, and now we're all enjoying ourselves, having a ball and grooving on comic-book movies. Synonyms have fun, have a good time, enjoy life, be happy, live, live life to the full, have the time of one's life 3Baseball informal with object Pitch (a ball) in the centre of the strike zone. 〔棒球〕〈非正式〉投（球）至最易击打的好球部位 he grooved a fastball in the 9th inning Example sentencesExamples Instead of pitching around him and setting up a force at any base, he grooved one and the batter produced a two-run single. He used to groove fastballs when men were on base. Fans who debate whether he grooved a home-run pitch to Cal Ripken in the All-Star Game are missing the true scandal. But until he relaxes in the batter's box and stops diving for pitches, opposing pitchers aren't going to groove any fastballs his way. I seem to recall that when he was stopped after hitting in 44 straight games, he said the opposing pitcher should have grooved him a fastball right down the heart of the strike zone so he could continue his streak. 3.1North American (in the context of other sports) kick or throw (the ball) successfully; score (a goal) with stylish ease. 〈北美〉用于棒球以外的运动成功地踢（或掷）（球）；出色地进球得（分） the San Diego kicker grooved the winning field goal 圣地亚哥队队员成功地踢进了那个决定胜负的定位球（飞越球门横木得3分的球）。 Example sentencesExamples Harrington, who had been misfiring badly on his out patterns, finally grooved a tight one into his big receiver Roy Williams. Accelerate the putter down the line, and you'll groove a sound stroke. At one point he grooves a serve that recalls the mop-haired pro from Tennessee. He got seeing so good that he was grooving the ball right down the middle all the time. Phrases in (or into) the groove 1informal Performing consistently well or confidently. 〈非正式〉始终表现出色的；一贯自信心足的 it might take me a couple of races to get back into the groove 也许要经过几场比赛我才能恢复最佳状态。 Example sentencesExamples As a result both have had periods where goals have proved hard to come by, but the pair look to be back in the groove and it has certainly given him reason to be confident about what the team can achieve this season. After a few days of getting lost, and teachers starting to know my name based on that simple fact, I eventually got into the groove of things. ‘It's been tough all year to get in the groove and get confident,’ he says. He has resorted to that long putter to get his performances back into the groove. A musician himself, he first discusses the experiences had by musicians who are in the groove, who are performing at their peak as it all comes together. If I don't work out for a few days, I don't want to get back into the groove for a week sometimes and then WHEN I get back to it, my strength and fitness has really fallen off and it's a big drag to try to get back to the level you were at. I'm sure I'll be a bit rusty on the first couple of stages, but it won't take long to get back into the groove. They were, of course, splendid, well into the groove. The prospect of having just one week to pick themselves up, repair shattered morale, and get everyone back into the groove before taking on Clare in the first round of the championship was uninviting to say the very least. While he started out shaky, as he's done in his previous performances, he got into the groove quickly and stuck with it through the end of the song. 1.1Enjoying oneself, especially by dancing. get into the groove! 尽情跳吧！ Example sentencesExamples It's that time of the year when students like to get into the groove. Just as the music-loving crowd, a majority of them youngsters, were getting into the groove with some static jiving, the stars arrived. Once she got into the groove, she started to smile and play happily and run through the garden in the late afternoon screaming at the top of her lungs into the wind just for fun. The pop and rap stars of the future get into the groove from 7.30 pm. The young performers had their proud parents beaming and the other guests charmed once they got into the groove. The gathering getting into the groove couldn't have asked for more than the heady mix of these two performers on a single platform. Just as the crowd was getting into the groove - the band had just played a fantastic jazz number that truly showed off their wealth of musical talent - the performance ended. Feel the rhythm and get into the groove. Switch it off and head out because Montreal's dance scene is finally getting back into the groove after a long summer drought. Head to the snowy slopes this winter and get into the groove with some skiing as this week's fab gear swishes and slides through the winter wonderland of the ski suit. Derivatives groover noun So if you want to be sure to have fun the next time you go to Germany, ask a local where a good club is - being the groovers they are, they're bound to know. Example sentencesExamples Standout groovers include ‘Inside Your Soul’ and ‘Black Jazz.’ The pair used to be friends, back when they were the young groovers of our literary scene. Young groovers were dancing up a storm to raise money for a children's charity. Infectious tropical groovers with a hint of rumba-flavoured funk are presented in a seamlessly blended big-room format. Origin Middle English (denoting a mine or shaft): from Dutch groeve 'furrow, pit'; related to grave¹. In early use a groove was a mine, shaft, or pit. The word comes from Dutch groeve ‘furrow or pit’, and is related to grave (Old English). From the 17th century it was used to refer to a channel or furrow cut in something and, in the 20th century, a spiral track cut into a record into which the stylus fits. The latter sense lies behind the phrase in the groove, ‘performing consistently well or confidently’, which was first used of jazz musicians and dates back to the 1930s. This is also where we get the adjective groovy from, first recorded meaning ‘excellent’ in the 1930s, specifically in the context of playing jazz well. Groovy was a teenage slang term by the 1940s and became prominent in the 1960s. It was revived by Mike Myers in the Austin Powers film spoofs. Rhymes approve, improve, move, prove, you've noun.1 phr. Definition of groove in US English: groove nounɡruvɡro͞ov 1A long, narrow cut or depression, especially one made to guide motion or receive a corresponding ridge. 导轨，槽 Example sentencesExamples She took her key-ring out as she walked towards her car, unknowingly shifting them around between her fingers feeling for the grooves of the correct key. The kneecap rides in a specific groove of the thighbone, and if the muscles are unbalanced, pain can begin from the kneecap grinding on the groove the wrong way. You see the city as a solid mass in which there have been carved narrow grooves, criss-crossing this stone block thousands of times. The teeth of the two large crocodile species known to live then were too blunt and too irregularly spaced to have produced the narrow grooves found on the Majungatholus bones. The crampons scraped across the kitchen floor, cutting grooves into the wood. And that is why we are having a very hard look at the grooves on club-faces right now. There, the mason had to lie on his stomach in a narrow groove, working his tools horizontally, chips and limestone dust dropping in front of his face. The woman's face is almost square, her jaw and cheekbones wide, her mouth a groove with calm, correct corners. Further addition of membrane materials fully hides these grooves. The grooves are slightly offset so as the upper assembly moves forward, the cylinder is forced to engage the correct groove with the stud. Standard installation calls for a special block with a groove along the top edge. The dies have a series of grooves and depressions cut into them and the work piece is passed in sequence through a shaping series. The water comes into the center of the block along a special groove and goes out into the output fitting. Use a foot with narrower grooves on lightweight fabrics, and one with wider grooves on mediumweight fabrics. The grooves are the depressions in the rifling. The biceps tendon was displaced from its groove anteriorly but remained intact. It then opens its mouth slightly and by expanding and contracting its throat grooves and retracting its huge tongue creates a powerful suction to suck up the food-filled sediment. Neural groove and folds emerge about 7 to 8 days after oviposition. Some of these channels were as wide as rivers, others narrow grooves. Some use ordinary concrete blocks without the special groove and with no wires. Synonyms furrow, channel, trench, trough, canal, gouge, hollow, indentation, rut, gutter, cutting, cut, score, fissure, seam 1.1 A spiral track cut in a phonograph record, into which the stylus fits. （唱片的）纹（道） Example sentencesExamples Of course, the smaller groove also required a smaller needle, and that, too, was made possible by World War II materials technology. With a typical pop/rock record, the groove will be 2.5 mils (thousands of an inch) wide, and will move from side to side a total of 2.5 mils. He correctly identified 20 out of 20 recordings just by studying the record grooves. Anyway, the way it worked was that this needle scratched around the grooves of the disc and the vibrations were translated into sound. They may rely on as simple an explanation as that of a print of a coin in wax, or they may, like Wittgenstein, use examples such as the structural analogy between music and the groove in a gramophone record. 1.2Climbing An indentation where two planes of rock meet at an angle of more than 120°. 〔登山〕（两块平面岩石交角大于120度的）岩壁凹陷处 Example sentencesExamples Climb the groove to below the steep wall on The Pinnacles. Climb the groove on rock then grass until you are level with a scary looking traverse back to the left. Continue up the groove / cracks finishing more easily up the right-facing corner. Climb the crack / grooves with continual interest until the top - at the top either continue vertically or traverse leftwards around the bulge. Climb out of the groove on the right and make a long reach to gain easier ground. 2An established routine or habit. 常规；习惯 his thoughts were slipping into a familiar groove 他的思想正不知不觉地转向习惯的模式。 Example sentencesExamples Like any habit, once a groove is established, it is often difficult to change, and changing is even harder if it means you'll have to use less weight. I prefer articles which are provocative to those which follow well-worn grooves because I think the development of critical thinking is important to good debate. If Japan can keep growing and get its competitive groove back, more and more Japanese might feel confident enough about their economic future to splurge. Both were above average, and when Milton got in a groove, he displayed flashes of brilliance. Two of the best players in the NBA not only have fallen into an amazing groove of leading the way, they've learned when and how to give way to their supporting cast. That means I welcome debate from any side of the political fence but not cheap shots or sloganeering which will derail the conversation - or rather rail it - into the usual grooves. But that will - it will get me into the work groove. What with returning to work and trying to get back into the work groove and so on… it's not been pretty. When people start to speak from habit they enter into those well worn grooves of social conformity and confirmation. We are also trying to set up a group to rejuvenate the joy of learning among educated adults stuck in a groove. His texts resist settling into established grooves of interpretation, and continue to engage new readers because this powerful, animated, and sometimes contradictory thinking lies so close to the surface. Synonyms rut, routine, boring routine, habit, dead end, humdrum existence, same old round, grind, daily grind, treadmill 3informal A rhythmic pattern in popular or jazz music. 〈非正式〉流行乐（或爵士乐）节奏模式 the groove laid down by the drummer and bassist is tough and funky 由鼓手和低音吉他手奠定的节奏激烈而且时髦。 Example sentencesExamples The quartet showed greater musical range than their predecessors, with songs ranging from barbiturate-induced hallucinations to upbeat, jazzy grooves. The album differs from their earlier punchy efforts, concentrating on developing strong grooves laced in reverb and echoes at a leisurely-relaxed tempo. His music embraces the traditional sounds of Mali along with American blues, Cuban-influenced grooves, jazz riffs, flamenco, calypso and Arab-influenced vocals. Their search for the perfect beat has resulted in a series of sound experiments packed with cyclic grooves and hypnotic rhythms. Consequently, the music and grooves are the same jazzy funk that this erstwhile folksinger has been exploring over her past few albums. The grooves, beats and samples are all too cool to believe that someone could've assembled these tracks for release. Driven by the barest resources of rhythm and groove, amongst discordant guitar shards and electronic noise, the song brings the album's diesel start to a grind. They have developed a large following who enjoy the band's strong harmonies and arrangements, vibrant performance and delightful repertoire of jazz standards, Latin grooves and swing. This album is pure laid back grooves, acoustic guitars, and blissed out melodies. The dual vocals over heavy groove riffs and head-nodding rhythms are as fluid as ever. On the contrary, the passion that bursts forth from these grooves enables the music to come fully alive three decades later. Are you more into the hardcore rap or more for the groove in hip-hop? Combining authentic retro tunes of the 60's with the new upbeat grooves of the 80's, the soundtrack moves along at a cracking pace through the decades. Having said that, there's probably something here for everyone - from gutsy funk to latino grooves and deep soul moves. They, unfortunately, seem more content on alternating between dirge-like arrangements and angular riffs and grooves. These albums were groundbreaking explorations into chilled electronica, infused with jazzy grooves and live orchestration. Many of the pieces ride on spare, quietly insistent pulses that owe as much to dub or African grooves as to jazz. Here they seem to have at last begun honing their ability to ride a simple groove at a moderate pace. The album itself is dominated by light jazzy grooves, but is often rudely interrupted by snatches of TV, radio, and roughly sampled sounds. She fronted an enormously talented bunch of individuals who generated a seamless blend of urban soul and funky grooves. Synonyms rhythm, beat, pulse, cadence, pace, rhythmical flow, rhythmical pattern, measure, metre, tempo, lilt verbɡruvɡro͞ov 1with object Make a groove or grooves in. 在…上开出沟（或槽等） deep lines grooved her face 皱纹深深地刻在她的脸上。 Example sentencesExamples After making what I thought was a good assessment of the radio, I placed the broken metal saw blade on top of the screw and started grooving a notch into the screw head. You can get a definite improvement by fitting grooved discs at £114 per pair and enhance this by fitting better pads at £38 a set. The black and white images suggested a lunar surface with bright elevated land masses, grooved by sloping drainage channels and seemingly surrounded by dark, still pools of oily liquid. For instance, one of the overhead cubby holes was grooved to form a CD-rack, which was very handy and would have been even more so had the car come with a CD player. On its old-fashioned white grooved notice-board, the black letters are arranged to spell out slogans - not about wine, but about larger issues. Adjustable pliers open to various widths, and the gripping surface of the jaw is grooved for a stronger hold. Another half-mile along the top wall and we reach a ladder stile and the descent, which is all in a sunken path and takes you past the crag-line and steeply down into some interesting rough and grooved terrain. Our table, the lower of the two, was grooved which held crumbs. The three rooms were lined with sweet-smelling tongued and grooved cypress. Grinding the mortar bed joints is a simpler task than grooving the masonry units. Bare hills and mountains are grooved with swirling lines of erosion while an almost endless ribbon of palms meanders from one village to the next. Their conical surface was grooved onto which we had to turn tightly a meter or so of a thick white string. And, talking of ruts, the landscape here is grooved with many prehistoric ones. All of the properties have either private balconies, rear patio access or both - the balconies feature grooved timber decking with decorative timber handrails and balustrading. Many ungulates have also evolved large, complexly grooved molar teeth to grind their food of grasses and other plants. We've had grooved tyres and smaller tyres and we're still increasing the aerodynamic performance of the tyres and I think its probably the wrong route. Stainless steel kitchen sinks with deep washbowls and grooved draining boards, made washing up much easier after a meal. There's a lanyard loop (don't laugh, they make perfect sense, especially for a hard-working gun) and the grip frame is grooved on the rear and front straps to enhance your grip. Make sure the rod guides are not grooved as they will quickly damage your fly line. Now, the branch is grooved enough (like all the other good climbing trees) so I can hold on without fear. 2informal no object Dance or listen to popular or jazz music, especially that with an insistent rhythm. 〈非正式〉欣赏（尤指长时间持续同一节奏的）流行乐（或爵士乐）；跟着（长时间持续同一节奏的）流行乐（或爵士乐）跳舞 they were grooving to Motown 他们跟着《汽车城》这支曲子的节拍跳舞。 Example sentencesExamples The crowd here is very young but they are grooving to a 50-something man. However, I'm wondering if there's something wrong with me for grooving to the opening theme as much as I do? I was totally grooving to this sound way before any of them. A cool hip hop DJ was playing and grooving all night. And not just any love - he's grooving to the sweet joy of the perfect pop song from 1970. This is a name that should be at the top of your shopping list, no matter what styles of music you're currently grooving to. I was grooving to them, thinking they were a nice local band to follow. The food was fantastic, what little of it I managed to find the time and appetite to eat, and the bartenders were a laugh, grooving to the music and pouring extremely generous measures of rum and vodka. Just a bunch of college kids grooving to bad dance music, acting immature and possibly drinking underage. Now, I love nothing more than being in a jazz bar with an apple martini in hand, grooving to the music. Several hundred people, maybe even a thousand, were grooving to salsa tunes. But she isn't planning on grooving to any of her beats in the clubs soon. She found her in the center of the masses, grooving to the music, almost oblivious to everything around her. The dance floor is packed with sweaty, tanned and gorgeous disco hedonists grooving to a mix of Top 40 chart beats as well as more eclectic New York-meets-LA club tunes. They were America's early contribution to the punk rock scene, when everybody else was grooving to Brit pop heroes like Elton John and Peter Frampton. Although, I think a major part of it were the people, those who were pretending to be enjoying this violent scene, along with dancing and grooving to music with profane lyrics - violent in content towards women and others. His shoulders began to groove to the beat as his breath flowed through his vocal chords, voicing the lyrics in a low baritone. They was receiving a much better response inside the Docks, where club kids were grooving to their trippy ambient dub. Everyone seemed to be grooving to the music, or at least tapping a foot. Picture your humble narrator reading a book, grooving to Janis Joplin being played over the speakers, nursing a cup of coffee and digging into a fantastic chicken pesto crepe, and doing his best to resist the potatoes with sour cream. 2.1 Play popular music in an accomplished and stylish manner. 〈旧〉出色地演奏（尤指节奏持续不变的）流行乐（或爵士乐） the rhythm section grooves in the true Basie manner 节奏乐器组以典型的巴锡风格出色地演奏。 Example sentencesExamples Clearly he enjoyed the opportunity to groove with young musicians, and judging by his gracious, charming attitude he was as happy as ever to let a crowd in on the fun. And true to its name, it grooves from start to finish. The rhythm section groove mightily; Parker can light a fire underneath pretty much any band and his solidity is typically elemental here. 2.2 Enjoy oneself. 过得快活 Harley relaxed and began to groove 哈利放松下来开始享受生活。 Example sentencesExamples They even rented a couple of them out on a monthly basis, including one to a local New York University student, who grooved on living in a cabin on lower Broadway. We saved them from themselves, and now we're all enjoying ourselves, having a ball and grooving on comic-book movies. The show has always grooved in the cerebral and quixotic, which often translates to slow. Synonyms have fun, have a good time, enjoy life, be happy, live, live life to the full, have the time of one's life 3Baseball informal with object Pitch (a ball) in the center of the strike zone. 〔棒球〕〈非正式〉投（球）至最易击打的好球部位 Example sentencesExamples Instead of pitching around him and setting up a force at any base, he grooved one and the batter produced a two-run single. Fans who debate whether he grooved a home-run pitch to Cal Ripken in the All-Star Game are missing the true scandal. But until he relaxes in the batter's box and stops diving for pitches, opposing pitchers aren't going to groove any fastballs his way. He used to groove fastballs when men were on base. I seem to recall that when he was stopped after hitting in 44 straight games, he said the opposing pitcher should have grooved him a fastball right down the heart of the strike zone so he could continue his streak. 3.1North American (in the context of other sports) kick or throw (the ball) successfully; score (a goal) with stylish ease. 〈北美〉用于棒球以外的运动成功地踢（或掷）（球）；出色地进球得（分） the San Diego kicker grooved the winning field goal 圣地亚哥队队员成功地踢进了那个决定胜负的定位球（飞越球门横木得3分的球）。 Example sentencesExamples Harrington, who had been misfiring badly on his out patterns, finally grooved a tight one into his big receiver Roy Williams. Accelerate the putter down the line, and you'll groove a sound stroke. He got seeing so good that he was grooving the ball right down the middle all the time. At one point he grooves a serve that recalls the mop-haired pro from Tennessee. Phrases in (or into) the groove 1informal Performing consistently well or confidently. 〈非正式〉始终表现出色的；一贯自信心足的 it might take me a couple of races to get back into the groove 也许要经过几场比赛我才能恢复最佳状态。 Example sentencesExamples They were, of course, splendid, well into the groove. While he started out shaky, as he's done in his previous performances, he got into the groove quickly and stuck with it through the end of the song. ‘It's been tough all year to get in the groove and get confident,’ he says. The prospect of having just one week to pick themselves up, repair shattered morale, and get everyone back into the groove before taking on Clare in the first round of the championship was uninviting to say the very least. A musician himself, he first discusses the experiences had by musicians who are in the groove, who are performing at their peak as it all comes together. After a few days of getting lost, and teachers starting to know my name based on that simple fact, I eventually got into the groove of things. As a result both have had periods where goals have proved hard to come by, but the pair look to be back in the groove and it has certainly given him reason to be confident about what the team can achieve this season. He has resorted to that long putter to get his performances back into the groove. If I don't work out for a few days, I don't want to get back into the groove for a week sometimes and then WHEN I get back to it, my strength and fitness has really fallen off and it's a big drag to try to get back to the level you were at. I'm sure I'll be a bit rusty on the first couple of stages, but it won't take long to get back into the groove. 1.1Indulging in relaxed and spontaneous enjoyment, especially dancing. 尽情享受的（尤指沉醉在舞蹈中） get into the groove! 尽情跳吧！ Example sentencesExamples The young performers had their proud parents beaming and the other guests charmed once they got into the groove. It's that time of the year when students like to get into the groove. The gathering getting into the groove couldn't have asked for more than the heady mix of these two performers on a single platform. Switch it off and head out because Montreal's dance scene is finally getting back into the groove after a long summer drought. Just as the music-loving crowd, a majority of them youngsters, were getting into the groove with some static jiving, the stars arrived. Head to the snowy slopes this winter and get into the groove with some skiing as this week's fab gear swishes and slides through the winter wonderland of the ski suit. Feel the rhythm and get into the groove. Once she got into the groove, she started to smile and play happily and run through the garden in the late afternoon screaming at the top of her lungs into the wind just for fun. Just as the crowd was getting into the groove - the band had just played a fantastic jazz number that truly showed off their wealth of musical talent - the performance ended. The pop and rap stars of the future get into the groove from 7.30 pm. Origin Middle English (denoting a mine or shaft): from Dutch groeve ‘furrow, pit’; related to grave. noun.1 phr.
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