2. Verb. (third-person singular of groove) ¹
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Definition of Grooves
1. groove [v] - See also: groove
Lexicographical Neighbors of Grooves
Literary usage of Grooves
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Field Geology by Frederic Henry Lahee (1917)
"Scratches, grooves, and Ribs.—Under the head of primary grooves and ribs may ...
Some secondary grooves are the product of scouring and others are made by ..."
2. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1912)
"in the patent as being used for cutting tongues, grooves, mortises, etc.
Cutting grooves or mortises or tongues, by the Newton rotary disc, is merely sawing ..."
3. A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines: Containing a Clear Exposition by Andrew Ure (1844)
"They contain from 5 to 7 grooves, commonly of an elliptical form, one smaller
than another in regular progression, as is seen in fig. 597. ..."
4. Military Commission to Europe in 1855 and 1856: Report of Major Alfred by Alfred Mordecai, Julius Schön, Josiah Gorgas (1861)
"The progressive grooves are those which are deeper at the breech than at the
muzzle, where they almost disappear ; but they preserve an uniform twist ..."
5. A Handbook of the Petroleum Industry by David Talbot Day (1922)
"(r) To distribute oil from the grooves und chambers over the bearing surface.
... If a bearing which is equipped with shallow, narrow grooves heats slightly ..."
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