grooveとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From 中期英語 grov, grove, groof, grofe (“cave; pit; mining shaft”), probably from Old Norse gróf (“pit”) or from Middle Dutch groeve (“furrow, ditch”), both from Proto-West Germanic *grōbu, from Proto-Germanic *grōbō (“groove, furrow”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrebʰ- (“to dig, scrape, bury”).

Cognate with Cimbrian gruuba (“gorge, ravine”), Dutch groef, groeve (“groove; pit, grave”), German Grube (“ditch, pit”), Luxembourgish Grouf (“pit, mine”), Mòcheno gruab (“mine”), Icelandic gróf (“pit, hollow”), Gothic 𐌲𐍂𐍉𐌱𐌰 (grōba, “foxhole”), Serbo-Croatian grèbati (“scratch, dig”). Related to 古期英語 grafan (“to dig”). More at grave.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ɡɹuːv/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ɡɹuv/
• 韻: -uːv

名詞

groove (plural grooves)

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.

   Antonym: ridge

2. A fixed routine.
   • 1859 December 13, Charles Dickens, “The Mortals in the House”, in Charles Dickens, editor, The Haunted House. The Extra Christmas Number of All the Year Round […], volume II, London: […] C[harles] Whiting, […], →OCLC, page 4:

     Through these distresses, the Odd Girl was cheerful and exemplary. But within four hours after dark we had got into a supernatural groove, and the Odd Girl had seen “Eyes,” and was in hysterics.

   • 1873, John Morley, Rousseau:

     The gregarious trifling of life in the social groove.

   • 2011 October 23, Becky Ashton, “QPR 1 - 0 Chelsea”, in BBC Sport‎:

     His counterpart Neil Warnock got his tactics spot on as Chelsea struggled to get into any sort of groove in the first half.

3. The middle of the strike zone in baseball where a pitch is most easily hit.
4. (music) A pronounced, enjoyable rhythm.
   • 1979, “Rapper's Delight”, performed by The Sugarhill Gang:

     Now, what you hear is not a test, I'm rapping to the beat / And me, the groove, and my friends are gonna try to move your feet

   • 1983, Chris Barbosa, Ed Chisolm, “Let the Music Play”, performed by Shannon:

     Let the music play / He won't get away / This groove he can't ignore

   • 1985, Stephen Bray, Madonna, “Into the Groove”, in Like a Virgin, performed by Madonna:

     Get into the groove / Boy, you've got to prove / Your love to me / Get up on your feet / Yeah, step to the beat

5. (dated, informal) A good feeling (often as in the groove).
   • 1980, Earth, Wind & Fire, “Turn It Into Something Good”, in Faces (Earth, Wind & Fire album):

     You can't hide forever, just decide to make it better / Turn it into something good / Remember, you can choose not to lose / Find your groove and be a winner

   • 2010, Jan Reid, Shawn Sahm, Texas Tornado: The Times and Music of Doug Sahm, page 57:

     How could he be expected to make music that put the audience in a groove, he reasoned, if he wasn't grooving himself?

6. (mining) A shaft or excavation.
7. (motor racing) The optimal route around the track, or any of several such routes.

派生語

動詞

groove (third-person singular simple present grooves, present participle grooving, simple past and past participle grooved)

1. (transitive) To cut a groove or channel in; to form into channels or grooves; to furrow.
   • 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 37, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 186:

     The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails, whereon my soul is grooved to run.

2. (intransitive) To perform, dance to, or enjoy rhythmic music.

   I was just starting to groove to the band when we had to leave.

派生語

• groove on
• grooved
• groover
• regroove
• ungrooved

参照

• "groove" in Online Etymology Dictionary.
• "groove, n." in Oxford English Dictionary (online edition).
• "groove" in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary.
• "groue, n." in the Middle English Dictionary (MED), Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2019.
• "groove" in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition.

アナグラム

• go over, overgo