different between undercut vs groove

English

Etymology

From Middle English undercutten, equivalent to under- +? cut.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

undercut (plural undercuts)

1. A cut made in the lower part of something; the material so removed.
2. The notch cut in a tree to direct its fall when being felled.
3. The underside of a sirloin of beef; the fillet.
4. A hairstyle that is shaved or clipped short on the sides and kept long on the top.
5. A blow dealt upward.

Translations

Verb

undercut (third-person singular simple present undercuts, present participle undercutting, simple past and past participle undercut)

1. To sell (something) at a lower price, or to work for lower wages, than a competitor.
2. To create an overhang by cutting away material from underneath.
3. To undermine.
   • July 18 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Dark Knight Rises[1]

     Though Bane’s sing-song voice gives his pronouncements a funny lilt, he doesn’t have any of the Joker’s deranged wit, and Nolan isn’t interested in undercutting his seriousness for the sake of a breezier entertainment.

4. To strike a heavy blow upward.

Translations

Adjective

undercut (not comparable)

1. Produced by undercutting.
2. Designed so as to cut from the underside.
3. Having the parts in relief cut under.

Anagrams

• untruced

English

Etymology

From Middle English grov, grove, groof, grofe (“cave; pit; mining shaft”), from Old English gr?f (“trench, furrow, something dug”), from Proto-Germanic *gr?b? (“groove, furrow”), from Proto-Indo-European *g?reb?- (“to dig, scrape, bury”). Cognate with Dutch groef, groeve (“groove; pit, grave”), German Grube (“ditch, pit”), Norwegian grov (“brook, riverbed”), Serbo-Croatian grèbati (“scratch, dig”). Directly descended from Old English grafan (“to dig”). More at grave.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??u?v/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??uv/
• Rhymes: -u?v

Noun

groove (plural grooves)

1. 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.

   Antonym: ridge

2. A fixed routine.
   • 1873, John Morley, Rousseau

     The gregarious trifling of life in the social groove.
3. The middle of the strike zone in baseball where a pitch is most easily hit.
4. (music) A pronounced, enjoyable rhythm.
5. (mining) A shaft or excavation.
6. (motor racing) 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)

Derived terms

• get one's groove on
• groove fricative
• grooveless
• groovelike
• groovework
• groovy
• tongue and groove

Translations

Verb

groove (third-person singular simple present grooves, present participle grooving, simple past and past participle grooved)

1. (transitive) To cut a groove or channel in; to form into channels or grooves; to furrow.
2. (intransitive) To perform, dance to, or enjoy rhythmic music.

   I was just starting to groove to the band when we had to leave.

Derived terms

• grooved
• groover
• ungrooved

Translations

Anagrams

• go over, overgo

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??uv/

Noun

groove m (plural grooves)

1. groove (fixed routine)

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English.

Noun

groove m (plural grooves)

1. groove (music style)