groove

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The next day it helps me get in the groove of writing code after the long break.

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Quick take

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)

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of groove gathered in one view.

noun

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)

noun

a settled and monotonous routine that is hard to escape; "they fell into a conversational rut"

noun

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

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for groove.

noun

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)

noun

a settled and monotonous routine that is hard to escape; "they fell into a conversational rut"

noun

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

verb

make a groove in, or provide with a groove; "groove a vinyl record"

verb

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

Example sentences

The next day it helps me get in the groove of writing code after the long break.

To "read" the signal from a record groove a needle is dragged a needle through a v shaped groove.

After many years, every groove in your soul matches a cusp in hers, and vice versa.

I also rarely ever hear about groove anymore and haven't seen it used in the wild in about 5 years.

You know that look you give your coworkers while they interrupt you just when you finally got into the coding groove?

I ended up in groove with Perl I simply couldn't achieve even after years of working in other languages.

What else but a blind singleness of purpose could have given focus to their genius, would have kept them in the groove of their purpose?

Its very hard to be creative on demand, which can lead to games that are draining and not terribly spectacular if the players arent in the groove.

I'm a programmer and an athlete as well, and I find that I absolutely cannot code after coming home from the gym, I'm too exhausted to get in a groove.

As "opinionated software", the success of Rails depends on neatly slotting into the well-worn groove of best practices adopted by its user base.

Every one of them, from Willie Mosconi's book of the 1940s to the very latest, will tell you that you should stroke the cue forward and back along a straight path, as if it were running in a groove, avoiding swerves, which will be difficult to control.