noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
tongue and groove
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tongue and groove floorboards
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
deep
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It was darker in the deep groove of the track that led down the Ridgery.
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Melodies tend to evolve out of deep grooves .
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Its trunk was almost black; thick fungus and moss grew in the deep grooves in the bark.
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When speeding along it is folded and lies in a deep groove along the back.
major
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The 25° bends centred on the repressor sites correspond to compression of the major groove around the bound proteins.
minor
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Arginine 40 and 40' extend from the A helices towards the minor groove , and contact phosphates G10' and G2.
■ VERB
get
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Some of the movie gets in a groove , and a lot seems like mere noodling.
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Their first day on the set was to get back in the groove again.
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The point was to get this groove I always had a feel for.
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I needed to get back into the groove of things.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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As the lights went down and the groove got going, people started dancing.
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The record player needle kept jumping out of the grooves.
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Then you cut a groove into the wood, so that the two pieces can be slotted together.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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I get myself in sort of a groove ..
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Its blade was two-edged, and made of heavy bronze, the grooves chased like lotus stems.
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Jazzy grooves and top-class rapping; this helped invent trip-hop and all manner of other dubious things.
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The music moves from ominous grooves to all-out instrumental pummeling of the listener -- all in the same piece.
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This type of groove should be played very tight, smack on the beat at all times, but with a little bounce.