noun

1. a long, narrow furrow or hollow cut in a surface with a tool, as the track cut in a phonograph record for the stylus to follow
2. any channel or rut cut or worn in a surface
3. a habitual way of doing something; settled routine
4. Anat. any narrow furrow, depression, or slit occurring on the surface of an organ, esp. of bone
5. Printing the indentation on the bottom of a piece of type

Etymology: ME grofe < ON grof, a pit & < MDu groeve, both akin to Ger grube, a pit, hole, ditch: for IE base see grave

transitive verb grooved, grooving groov′·ing

intransitive verb