different between groove vs suture

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)

1. 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

2. A fixed routine.
   • 1873, John Morley, Rousseau

     The gregarious trifling of life in the social groove.
3. The middle of the strike zone in baseball where a pitch is most easily hit.
4. (music) A pronounced, enjoyable rhythm.
5. (mining) A shaft or excavation.
6. (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)

1. (transitive) To cut a groove or channel in; to form into channels or grooves; to furrow.
2. (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)

1. groove (fixed routine)

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English.

Noun

groove m (plural grooves)

1. groove (music style)

English

Etymology

From Middle English suture, from Latin s?t?ra (“suture”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?s(j)u?.tj?(?)/, /?s(j)u?.t??(?)/

Noun

suture (plural sutures)

1. A seam formed by sewing two edges together, especially to join pieces of skin in surgically treating a wound.
2. Thread used to sew or stitch two edges (especially of skin) together.
3. (geology) An area where separate terrane join together along a major fault.
4. (anatomy) A type of fibrous joint bound together by Sharpey's fibres which only occurs in the skull.
5. (anatomy) A seam or line, such as that between the segments of a crustacean, between the whorls of a univalve shell, or where the elytra of a beetle meet.
6. (botany) The seam at the union of two margins in a plant.

Translations

Verb

suture (third-person singular simple present sutures, present participle suturing, simple past and past participle sutured)

1. (transitive) To sew up or join by means of a suture.

Translations

Anagrams

• uterus

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin s?t?ra (“suture”).

Noun

suture f (plural sutures)

1. (surgery) suture; stitch

Derived terms

• point de suture

Verb

suture

1. first-person singular present indicative of suturer
2. third-person singular present indicative of suturer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of suturer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of suturer
5. second-person singular imperative of suturer

Further reading

• “suture” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• tueurs, utérus

Italian

Noun

suture f

1. plural of sutura

Middle English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin s?t?ra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /siu??tiu?r(?)/, /?siu?tiu?r(?)/

Noun

suture (plural suturez)

1. A suture; a seam made in surgical operations:
2. (rare, anatomy) A slight bodily indentation.

Descendants

• English: suture

References

• “s?t?re, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-11-17.

Spanish

Verb

suture

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of suturar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of suturar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of suturar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of suturar.