groove has definitions from the field of anatomy
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[ noun ] a settled and monotonous routine that is hard to escape

Synonyms

rut

Examples

"they fell into a conversational rut"

Used in print

(Harold Searles, "Schizophrenic Communication,"...)

one cannot assume , of_course , that all these accumulated meanings were inherent in the stereotype at the beginning of the therapy , or at any one time later_on when the stereotype was uttered ; probably it is correct to think_of it as a matter of a well grooved , stereotyped mode of expression - and no , or but a_few , other communicational grooves , as_yet - being there , available for the patient 's use , as newly emerging emotions and ideas well_up in him over the course of months .

Related terms

routine

2
[ noun ] a long narrow furrow cut either by a natural process (such as erosion) or by a tool (as e.g. a groove in a phonograph record)

Synonyms

channel

Used in print

(Harold Searles, "Schizophrenic Communication,"...)

The content of his words may lapse back into monotonous repetition , as if a phonograph_needle were stuck in one groove ; only seldom is it so simple as to be a matter of his obviously parroting some timeworn axiom , common to our culture , which he has evidently heard , over_and_over , from a parent until he experiences it as part of him .

3
[ verb ] hollow out in the form of a furrow or groove

Synonyms

furrow rut

Examples

"furrow soil"

Related terms

dig furrow

4
[ verb ] make a groove in

Synonyms

gouge rout

Related terms

hollow dent

5
[ verb ] make a groove in, or provide with a groove, as of a record, for example

Related terms

incise dado mill

6
[ noun ] (anatomy) any furrow or channel on a bodily structure or part

Synonyms

vallecula

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