grooved

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groove

(gro͞ov)

1. A long narrow furrow or channel.

2. The spiral track cut into a phonograph record for the stylus to follow.

3. Slang A settled routine: got into the groove of a nine-to-five job.

4. Slang A situation or an activity that one enjoys or to which one is especially well suited: found his groove playing bass in a trio.

5. Slang A very pleasurable experience.

v. grooved, groov·ing, grooves

v.tr.

1. To cut a groove or grooves in.

2. Baseball To throw (a pitch) over the middle of home plate, where it is likely to be hit.

v.intr. Slang

a. To take great pleasure or satisfaction; enjoy oneself: just sitting around, grooving on the music.

b. To be affected with pleasurable excitement.

2. To react or interact harmoniously.

Idiom:

in the groove Slang

Performing exceptionally well.

[Middle English groof, mining shaft, probably from Middle Dutch groeve, ditch; see ghrebh- in Indo-European roots.]

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grooved

(ɡruːvd)

adj

having a groove or grooves

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Adj.

grooved - established as if settled into a groove or rut

well-grooved

constituted, established - brought about or set up or accepted; especially long established; "the established social order"; "distrust the constituted authority"; "a team established as a member of a major league"; "enjoyed his prestige as an established writer"; "an established precedent"; "the established Church"

grooved

adjective furrowed, cut, hollowed, scored, channelled, rutted, indented The inscriptions are as deeply grooved as if they had been cut only last week.

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Translations

مُثَلَّم، مُحَزَّز

rýhovanývroubkovaný

furet

gerillt

cannelé

rovátkolt

rifflaîur

incavato

furet utskåret

yivli

开槽的

grooved

[gruːvd] ADJ → estriado, acanalado

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grooved

[ˈgruːvd] adj (= incised) → rainuré(e)

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groove

(gruːv) noun

a long, narrow cut made in a surface. the groove in a record.

grooved adjective

grooved edges.

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and add the day of the month and the year, then take Smith's left hand on another glass strip, and add name and date and the words "left hand." The strips were now returned to the grooved box, and took their place among what Wilson called his "records."

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It fell back noiselessly upon rubber studs, and Meekins immediately slipped through it a ladder, on either side of which was a grooved stretch of board, evidently fashioned to allow Mr.

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Every joint of it was well grooved; and the door did not move on hinges, but up and down like a sash, which kept my closet so tight that very little water came in.

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Meithlinger [6] compared the performance of the SSE with axially grooved feeding zone and helically grooved feeding zone.

Experimental Investigation of the Single Screw Extruder With Grooved Melting Zone

1 shows a schematic diagram of micro-grooved gas parallel slider bearings; the lower slider is grooved and fixed, the upper slider is smooth and moves along the x direction, the speed of the upper slider is U, the minimum film thickness between the two sliders is c and each groove has a depth of [h.sub.g].

Hydrodynamic Lubrication of Micro-Grooved Gas Parallel Slider Bearings with Parabolic Grooves

Extruders with grooved feed throats resist rotation of the solid polymer particles against the feed-throat wall.

Are grooved-feed extruders right for you? In specific circumstances, this design can increase output and reduce melt temperature. But grooved feed throats are not for every application

(6) Clinically, grooved teeth have demonstrated significantly higher plaque, gingival and periodontal disease index scores than non-grooved incisors.

Palatogingival groove--the hidden predator

For this reason, we tried to develop the ability to make grooved trouser test specimens from samples (slices) extracted from tires and molded rubber goods.

New modified tear test

Webex has introduced specially designed and grooved heating rollers that work in semi-nip configurations to create precision pleating webs for use in filter media.

Rollers create pleated filter media

Victaulic Water System Technology's Stephen Morrison considers the advantages of using a grooved system in water pipelines

A different groove

Victaulic has reported that DOKE (Development of King Abdul Aziz Endowment) in Makkah, Saudi Arabia, has solved engineering challenges using its grooved products.