Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having a groove or grooves; channeled; furrowed.
  • Specifically — In botany, marked with longitudinal ridges or furrows: as, a grooved stem.
  • In entomology, having a longitudinal channel or channels: as, a grooved sternum; the beak of a weevil grooved for the reception of the antennæ.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective having grooves.
  • adjective marked by thin parallel marks or channels.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of groove.
  • adjective Having grooves

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective established as if settled into a groove or rut

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Examples

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  • · MIDI and audio can be 'grooved' in real-time and the level modulated by cc.

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  • God is a sensual experience that the mystics grooved on getting high with.

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  • He mopped his brow with a red handkerchief, and she noticed the last two fingers of his right hand were gone; deep teeth marks were grooved into his remaining flesh.

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  • We were just scratching the surface of this conundrum when Soriano grooved a 3–2 fastball over the center of the plate.

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  • The fashion world then, like now, grooved on the legend of these episodes

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