Groove vs. Grove — What's the Difference?

A long narrow furrow or channel.

A small wood or stand of trees lacking dense undergrowth.

The spiral track cut into a phonograph record for the stylus to follow.

A group of trees planted and cultivated for the production of fruit or nuts

(Informal) An interesting or enjoyable rhythm in a piece of music, especially in jazz or popular music.

A small forest.

(Informal) A settled routine

An orchard of fruit trees.

A situation or an activity that one enjoys or to which one is especially well suited

A place of worship.

A very pleasurable experience.

A lodge of the Ancient Order of Druids.

To cut a groove or grooves in.

To cultivate in groves; to grow naturally so as to form groves.

(Baseball) To throw (a pitch) over the middle of home plate, where it is likely to be hit.

To cultivate with periodic harvesting that also serves to create order (gaps and lines of trees) to facilitate further harvesting.

To take great pleasure or satisfaction; enjoy oneself

To plough or gouge with lines.

To be affected with pleasurable excitement.

A smaller group of trees than a forest, and without underwood, planted, or growing naturally as if arranged by art; a wood of small extent.

To react or interact harmoniously.

A small growth of trees without underbrush

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.

Garden consisting of a small cultivated wood without undergrowth

A fixed routine.

The middle of the strike zone in baseball where a pitch is most easily hit.

(music) A pronounced, enjoyable rhythm.

A good feeling (often as in the groove).

(mining) A shaft or excavation.

(motorsport) A racing line, a path across the racing circuit's surface that a racecar will usually track on. (Note: There may be multiple grooves on any particular circuit or segment of circuit)

(transitive) To cut a groove or channel in; to form into channels or grooves; to furrow.

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

A furrow, channel, or long hollow, such as may be formed by cutting, molding, grinding, the wearing force of flowing water, or constant travel; a depressed way; a worn path; a rut.

Hence: The habitual course of life, work, or affairs; fixed routine.

A shaft or excavation.

To cut a groove or channel in; to form into channels or grooves; to furrow.

A long narrow furrow cut either by a natural process (such as erosion) or by a tool (as e.g. a groove in a phonograph record)

A settled and monotonous routine that is hard to escape;

(anatomy) any furrow or channel on a bodily structure or part

Make a groove in, or provide with a groove;

Hollow out in the form of a furrow or groove;