groove

n 1: a long narrow furrow or channel cut by a natural process

(such as erosion) or by a tool (as e.g. a groove in a

phonograph record)

2: a settled and monotonous routine that is hard to escape;

"they fell into a conversational rut" [syn: {rut}]

3: (anatomy) any furrow or channel on a bodily structure or

part

v 1: make a groove in, or provide with a groove, as of a record,

for example

2: make a groove in [syn: {rout}, {gouge}]

3: hollow out in the form of a furrow or groove; "furrow soil"

[syn: {furrow}, {rut}]