Other forms: grooves
In music, the groove is the rhythmic feel that makes a track move. Find the groove, a great groove, lock into the groove.
It is what a rhythm section produces together rather than what any one player does, and musicians agree it exists and cannot define it. The word comes from the physical groove cut into a record. Elsewhere, a groove is a long narrow channel cut into a surface: a groove in the wood. Note in the groove, meaning performing well; and stuck in a groove, meaning repeating yourself endlessly.
1noungrooveThe rhythmic feel that makes music move.
“The whole band locked into the groove at about the third take.”
2nounlongA long narrow channel cut into a surface.
“There is a groove in the sill where the water runs off.”
groove is a channel or rhythmic feel.
Middle Dutch groeve meant a furrow or ditch, from a root meaning to dig — the same root as grave and grub. The record groove is a dug furrow, and the musical sense is named after it.
Proto-Indo-European
*gʰrebʰ- — to dig, scrape, bury
Proto-Germanic
*grōbō — groove, furrow
Proto-West Germanic
*grōbu
Middle Dutch
groeve — furrow, ditch
Old Norse
gróf — pit
Middle English
grov
English, today
groove
Built from
From Middle English grov, grove, groof, grofe (“cave; pit; mining shaft”), probably from Old Norse gróf (“pit”) or from Middle Dutch groeve (“furrow, ditch”), both from Proto-West Germanic grōbu, from Proto-Germanic grōbō (“groove, furrow”), from Proto-Indo-European gʰrebʰ- (“to dig, scrape, bury”). Cognate with cim gruuba (“gorge, ravine”), Dutch groef, groeve (“groove; pit, grave”), German Grube (“ditch, pit”), lb Grouf (“pit, mine”), mhn gruab (“mine”), Icelandic gróf (“pit, hollow”), Gothic 𐌲𐍂𐍉𐌱𐌰 (“foxhole”), Serbo-Croatian grèbati (“scratch, dig”). Related to Old English grafan (“to dig”). More at grave.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA