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Synonyms for groove

Synonyms for groove: furrow and rut. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.

2 synonyms · Tier 2, Treeline · 1 sense · noun · 1 reason line

The 2 synonyms for groove

Interchangeable with groove in this sense

Audited under groove's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one groove carries in that sense.

furrownoun, in the sense "a long narrow cut or channel in a surface"

Recorded from the other side of the pair

These entries were written under the other word and name groove as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.

rutrut is a noun in the sense "a settled and monotonous routine that is hard to escape"

The first group is filed under groove's own sense. The second reaches groove from the partner word's entry, so the sense quoted beside it is that word's.

The sensenounTier 2, TreelineShapes

a long narrow cut or channel in a surface

The record player's needle traced the groove cut into the vinyl disc.

The sentence the game shows, and the only thing that settles which meaning is meant.

The true synonym

furrow

Same sentence, swapped: The record player's needle traced the furrow cut into the vinyl disc.

Close but different

The game shows these three beside the answer. Each is a real word with a real meaning and none of them fits the slot groove is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.

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Where groove turns up in the game

groove is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.

Play groove

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so groove reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.

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crescentnounsicklea curved shape that tapers to a point at each end, like the moon in its early phaseTreelineHas a reason line cylindricaladjectivetubularshaped like a tube, with a circular cross-sectionTreelineHas a reason line deformverbwarpto change the natural shape of something, usually by force or heatTreelineHas a reason line ellipticaladjectiveovalshaped like an oval, especially an elongated curved pathTreelineHas a reason line bulbousadjectiveswollenrounded and swelling outward, like a bulbTreelineHas a reason line bulgenounswella rounded part that swells outward from a surfaceTreelineHas a reason line circumferencenounperimeterthe distance measured around the outside of a circular or curved objectTreelineHas a reason line networknounweban interconnected system of things or peopleTreelineHas a reason line

The wrong tile gets explained too

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