Groove vs Hear - What's the difference?
groove | hear |
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.
(label) To perceive sounds through the ear.
(label) To perceive (a sound, or something producing a sound) with the ear, to recognize (something) in an auditory way.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4
, passage=Mr. Cooke at once began a tirade against the residents of Asquith for permitting a sandy and generally disgraceful condition of the roads. So roundly did he vituperate the inn management in particular, and with such a loud flow of words, that I trembled lest he should be heard on the veranda.}}
(label) To exercise this faculty intentionally; to listen to.
* 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , (w) X:
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, title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=3
, passage=It had been his intention to go to Wimbledon, but as he himself said: “Why be blooming well frizzled when you can hear all the results over the wireless. And results are all that concern me. […]”}}
(label) To listen favourably to; to grant (a request etc.).
(label) To receive information about; to come to learn of.
* 1667 , (John Milton), (Paradise Lost) :
(label) To listen to (a person, case) in a court of law; to try.
To sympathize with; to share the feeling or opinion of.
As verbs the difference between groove and hear
is that groove is to cut a groove or channel in; to form into channels or grooves; to furrow while hear is to perceive sounds through the ear.As a noun groove
is 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.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
*hear
English
(wikipedia hear)Verb
- Agayne there was dissencion amonge the iewes for these sayinges, and many of them sayd: He hath the devyll, and is madde: why heare ye hym?
George Goodchild
- Adam, soon as he heard / The fatal Trespass don by Eve, amaz'd, / Astonied stood and Blank [...].
