Groove vs Cranny - What's the difference?
groove | cranny |
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 tyre groove, or a geological channel or depression.
A fixed routine
* (rfdate) J. Morley
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The middle of the strike zone in baseball where a pitch is most easily hit.
A pronounced, enjoyable rhythm.
(mining) A shaft or excavation.
To cut a groove or channel in; to form into channels or grooves; to furrow.
To create, dance to, or enjoy rhythmic music.
A small, narrow opening, fissure, crevice, or chink, as in a wall, or other substance.
* Arbuthnot
* Dryden
A tool for forming the necks of bottles, etc.
To break into, or become full of, crannies.
* Golding
To haunt or enter by crannies.
* Byron
As nouns the difference between groove and cranny
is that groove is a long, narrow channel or depression; eg, such a slot cut into a hard material to provide a location for an engineering component, a tyre groove, or a geological channel or depression while cranny is a small, narrow opening, fissure, crevice, or chink, as in a wall, or other substance.As verbs the difference between groove and cranny
is that groove is to cut a groove or channel in; to form into channels or grooves; to furrow while cranny is to break into, or become full of, crannies.As an adjective cranny is
(uk|dialect) quick; giddy; thoughtless.groove
English
Noun
(en noun)- The gregarious trifling of life in the social groove .
Derived terms
* groovy * tongue and grooveVerb
(groov)- I was just starting to groove to the band, when we had to leave.
Anagrams
*cranny
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) crany, .Noun
(crannies)- He peeped into every cranny .
- In a firm building, the cavities ought not to be filled with rubbish, but with brick or stone fitted to the crannies .
Verb
- The ground did cranny everywhere.
- All tenantless, save to the crannying wind.