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GROOVE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A settled and monotonous routine that is hard to escape

Example:

they fell into a conversational rut

Synonyms:

groove; rut

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

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

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

groove; vallecula

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

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

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

Domain category:

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

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

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

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

Derivation:

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

Sense 3

Meaning:

A long narrow furrow cut either by a natural process (such as erosion) or by a tool (as e.g. a groove in a phonograph record)

Synonyms:

channel; groove

Classified under:

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

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

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

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

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

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

quirk (a narrow groove beside a beading)

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

track (a groove on a phonograph recording)

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

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

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

Derivation:

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

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

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Hollow out in the form of a furrow or groove

Example:

furrow soil

Synonyms:

furrow; groove; rut

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

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

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

Sentence frames:

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

Derivation:

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

groove (a long narrow furrow cut either by a natural process (such as erosion) or by a tool (as e.g. a groove in a phonograph record))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Make a groove in, or provide with a groove

Example:

groove a vinyl record

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

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

incise (make an incision into by carving or cutting)

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

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

mill (produce a ridge around the edge of)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

groove (a long narrow furrow cut either by a natural process (such as erosion) or by a tool (as e.g. a groove in a phonograph record))

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

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

Credits

 Context examples: 

Mitozolomide undergoes ring opening upon the nucleophilic attack at C-4 by an activated molecule of water within the major groove of DNA.

(Mitozolomide, NCI Thesaurus)

A cyclopropylpyrroloindole prodrug analogue and DNA minor groove binding agent, with antineoplastic activity.

(Carzelesin, NCI Thesaurus)

It is a type of DNA minor groove binding agent.

(Brostallicin, NCI Dictionary)

Then from his quiver he drew a short, thick quarrel, which he placed with the utmost care upon the groove.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They do not see what is not obvious, are unable to do the unexpected, are incapable of adjusting their well-grooved lives to other and strange grooves.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Not knowing what to trust, I did not know what to do; and so had only to keep on working in what had hitherto been the groove of my life.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

A groove or cleft that divides the outer surface of the temporal lobe running in the same direction but at a lower level to the superior temporal sulcus.

(Middle Temporal Sulcus, NCI Thesaurus)

A semicircular groove or fissure separating the insula from the opercula.

(Circular Sulcus, NCI Thesaurus)

Lined by highly conserved residues, the positively charged groove of the superhelix appears to mediate interaction with acidic surfaces of target proteins.

(Armadillo Repeat, NCI Thesaurus)

B-DNA is about 20 Angstrom in diameter and a right-handed double helix with a wide major groove easily accessible to proteins and narrow minor groove.

(B-DNA, NCI Thesaurus)