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groove

/ɡɹuv/ sustantivo C1

En español: ranura, acanaladura, canal, estría

  1. A long, narrow channel or depression; e.g., such a slot cut into a hard material to provide a location for an engineering component, a tire groove, or a geological channel or depression.
  2. A fixed routine.
  3. The middle of the strike zone in baseball where a pitch is most easily hit.
  4. A pronounced, enjoyable rhythm.
  5. A good feeling (often as in the groove). (dated, informal)
  6. A shaft or excavation.
  7. The optimal route around the track, or any of several such routes.

Plural grooves

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Eventually, however, Avonlea school slipped back into its old groove and took up its old interests.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 201 · C1
Two days afterwards they carried Matthew Cuthbert over his homestead threshold and away from the fields he had tilled and the orchards he had loved and the trees he had planted; and then Avonlea settled back to its usual placidity and even at Green Gables affairs slipped into their old groove and work was done and duties fulfilled with regularity as before, although always with the aching sense of “loss in all familiar things.” Anne, new to grief, thought it almost sad that it could be so--that they _could_ go on in the old way without Matthew.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 314 · C1
A man gets in a groove in New York.
Six stories from The Four Million, p. 23 · C1
In vain I endeavoured to interest him in Afghanistan, in India, in social questions, in anything which might take his mind out of the groove.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, p. 90 · B2

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