What is another word for grooves?

Pronunciation: [ɡɹˈuːvz] (IPA)

The term "groove" typically refers to a shallow channel or depression in a surface. However, there are several other words that can be used interchangeably for this term, depending on the context. "Ruts," for example, are often used to describe grooves worn into the ground by repeated use or heavy traffic. "Furrows" are similar, but typically refer to long, narrow grooves created by plowing fields or digging trenches. "Channels" and "trenches" are also common synonyms, and can be used to describe both physical and figurative grooves, such as behavioral patterns or musical rhythms. Other potential substitutes for "groove" include "notches," "indentations," and "ridges.

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Usage examples for Grooves

So far is the Scripture from regarding Pharaoh as propelled by destiny, as by a machine, down iron grooves to ruin.
"The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus"
G. A. Chadwick
Along these the seas had worn grooves leading to a central concavity filled with water.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
Their honesty must run in grooves for R. gave a heavy overcoat to one of his men in a cold station, and when he and his servants went to a very hot station, he noticed this man still wearing the thick coat and sweating like anything, so he asked him why he did so, and the man replied that he dared not put it off for a minute or it would be stolen.
"From Edinburgh to India & Burmah"
William G. Burn Murdoch

Famous quotes with Grooves

  • I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.
    David Byrne
  • Al and Tommy and I sharing the biggest laugh because it was predicted by everything we did in the first three or four records in my career. It was predicted in the grooves that we would be here sometime later on down the road.
    Al Jarreau
  • A personal offense is like a scratch on a phonograph record. I couldn't move my thoughts beyond my pain. It kept repeating, as if I were stuck within its grooves. There was only one way to play beyond it. I had to forgive them, so my heart could take its form again.
    Laurel Lee
  • Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.
    Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Because his living presence became such an uncommonly global one, that ministry [Jackson’s individual spiritual concerns] reflected universal ecumenical principles dressed up in ultra-modern dance grooves, love songs to nature, lyrical eulogies in the form of musical elegies, and sermons sung with passionate intensity and suffering eloquence.
    Aberjhani

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