Groove vs Swish - What's the difference?
groove | swish |
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
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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.
(British, colloquial) sophisticated; fashionable; smooth.
Attractive, stylish
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effeminate.
A short rustling, hissing or whistling sound, often made by friction.
A sound of liquid flowing inside a container.
*1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
*:There were four or five men in the vault already, and I could hear more coming down the passage, and guessed from their heavy footsteps that they were carrying burdens. There was a sound, too, of dumping kegs down on the ground, with a swish of liquor inside them, and then the noise of casks being moved.
A movement of an animal's tail
A twig or bundle of twigs, used for administering beatings; a switch
(basketball) A successful basketball shot that does not touch the rim or backboard.
An effeminate male homosexual.
To make a rustling sound while moving.
To flourish with a swishing sound.
(transitive, slang, dated) To flog; to lash.
(basketball) To make a successful basketball shot that does not touch the rim or backboard.
(gay slang) To mince or otherwise to behave in an effeminate manner.
As nouns the difference between groove and swish
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 swish is a short rustling, hissing or whistling sound, often made by friction.As verbs the difference between groove and swish
is that groove is to cut a groove or channel in; to form into channels or grooves; to furrow while swish is to make a rustling sound while moving.As an adjective swish is
(british|colloquial) sophisticated; fashionable; smooth.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
*swish
English
Adjective
(en-adj)- This restaurant looks very swish — it even has linen tablecloths.
Southampton hammer eight past hapless Sunderland in barmy encounter", The Guardian , 18 October 2014:
- The Saints, who started the day third in the table, went marching on thanks to their own swish play and some staggering defending by the visitors.
Noun
(es)Verb
(es)- The cane swishes .
- to swish a cane back and forth
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- (Thackeray)
- I shall not swish ; I'll merely act limp-wristed.