Definitions for grooved

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Spelling: [groovd]

IPA: /gruvd/

Grooved is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 117 anagrams from letters in grooved (degoorv).

Definitions for grooved

noun

1. a long, narrow cut or indentation in a surface, as the cut in a board to receive the tongue of another board (tongue-and-groove joint) a furrow, or a natural indentation on an organism.
2. the track or channel of a phonograph record for the needle or stylus.
3. a fixed routine:
4. Printing. the furrow at the bottom of a piece of type.
5. Slang. an enjoyable time or experience.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of groove.

Idioms

1. in the groove, Slang. in perfect functioning order. in the popular fashion; up-to-date:

adjective

1. provided with a groove.

verb (used with object)

1. to cut a groove in; furrow.
2. Slang. to appreciate and enjoy. to please immensely.

verb (used without object)

1. Slang. to take great pleasure; enjoy oneself: to get along or interact well.
2. to fix in a groove.

Origin of grooved

First recorded in 1785-95; groove + -ed²

Examples for grooved

Each side of each rail is grooved 1/8 in, to allow the leg to be recessed.

This was grooved in such a way as to make it seem like two separate teeth.

The file (not glass or sand-paper) must not be of the toothed kind, but grooved.

We have found pieces of grooved sandstone that the later Cave-men used.

The upper side of the ladle handle may be grooved or convex.

Then they put a handle on the grooved stone and fastened it with rawhide.

There were one or two stone hammers, grooved for hafting, like the ax.

It looked hollow, grooved back for a distance from the point.

These boards are grooved on both sides and placed on the stairs.

A piece of board is grooved with a jack-knife in the manner shown in the diagram.