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groove
English
Etymology
From Middle English grov, grove, groof, grofe (“cave; pit; mining shaft”), from Old English gr?f (“trench, furrow, something dug”), from Proto-Germanic *gr?b? (“groove, furrow”), from Proto-Indo-European *g?reb?- (“to dig, scrape, bury”). Cognate with Dutch groef, groeve (“groove; pit, grave”), German Grube (“ditch, pit”), Norwegian grov (“brook, riverbed”), Serbo-Croatian grèbati (“scratch, dig”). Directly descended from Old English grafan (“to dig”). More at grave.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /??u?v/
- (US) IPA(key): /??uv/
- Rhymes: -u?v
Noun
groove (plural grooves)
- A long, narrow channel or depression; e.g., such a slot cut into a hard material to provide a location for an engineering component, a tyre groove, or a geological channel or depression.
- Antonym: ridge
- A fixed routine.
- 1873, John Morley, Rousseau
- The gregarious trifling of life in the social groove.
- 1873, John Morley, Rousseau
- The middle of the strike zone in baseball where a pitch is most easily hit.
- (music) A pronounced, enjoyable rhythm.
- (mining) A shaft or excavation.
- (motor racing) A racing line, a path across the racing circuit's surface that a racecar will usually track on. (Note: There may be multiple grooves on any particular circuit or segment of circuit)
Derived terms
- get one's groove on
- groove fricative
- grooveless
- groovelike
- groovework
- groovy
- tongue and groove
Translations
Verb
groove (third-person singular simple present grooves, present participle grooving, simple past and past participle grooved)
- (transitive) To cut a groove or channel in; to form into channels or grooves; to furrow.
- (intransitive) To perform, dance to, or enjoy rhythmic music.
- I was just starting to groove to the band when we had to leave.
Derived terms
- grooved
- groover
- ungrooved
Translations
Anagrams
- go over, overgo
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??uv/
Noun
groove m (plural grooves)
- groove (fixed routine)
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from English.
Noun
groove m (plural grooves)
- groove (music style)
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cranny
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?k?æni/
- Rhymes: -æni
Etymology 1
From Middle English crany, crani (“cranny”), apparently a diminutive of *cran (+ -y), from Old French cran, cren (“notch, fissure”), a derivative of crener (“to notch, split”), from Medieval Latin cren? (“split”, verb), from Vulgar Latin *crin? (“split, break”, verb), of obscure origin.
Despite a spurious use in Pliny, connection to Latin cr?na is doubtful. Instead, probably of Germanic or Celtic origin. Compare Old High German chrinna (“notch, groove, crevice”), Alemannic German Krinne (“small crack, channel, groove”), Low German karn (“notch, groove, crevice, cranny”), Old Irish ara-chrinin (“to perish, decay”).
Noun
cranny (plural crannies)
- A small, narrow opening, fissure, crevice, or chink, as in a wall, or other substance.
- c. 1712, John Arbuthnot, The History of John Bull
- He peeped into every cranny.
- c. 1712, John Arbuthnot, The History of John Bull
- A tool for forming the necks of bottles, etc.
Related terms
- any nook or cranny, every nook and cranny, nook and cranny, nook or cranny
Translations
Verb
cranny (third-person singular simple present crannies, present participle crannying, simple past and past participle crannied)
- (intransitive) To break into, or become full of, crannies.
- 1567, Arthur Golding: Ovid's Metamophoses; Bk. 2, line 333
- The ground did cranie everie where and light did pierce to hell.
- 1567, Arthur Golding: Ovid's Metamophoses; Bk. 2, line 333
- (intransitive) To haunt or enter by crannies.
Etymology 2
Perhaps for cranky.
Adjective
cranny (comparative more cranny, superlative most cranny)
- (Britain, dialect) quick; giddy; thoughtless
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)
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