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- noun Plural form of
groove . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
groove .
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Examples
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Also, Most of the air flow across the rifling grooves is inconsequential since most of the bearing surface is in the boundary layer created behind the ogive.
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Also, Most of the air flow across the rifling grooves is inconsequential since most of the bearing surface is in the boundary layer created behind the ogive.
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Del, Thanks, didn't click on that link but that first one with the wood and slight grooves is what I'd choose as a soveighneir.
More On Axes 2008
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A tungsten-carbide button with a reverse imprint of the rifling grooves is pulled through a blank by a hydraulic press.
Roll Out the Barrel 2005
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November 30, 2005 21: 33 sussie la 4: beautiful latin grooves
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"We've always seen Trot Nixon in grooves like this before, but tonight is about as good a groove as I've seen him."
USATODAY.com 2003
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For eight months the French Army had been moving along certain grooves and it could not be suddenly switched from being a static defence force into mobile columns.
Close to the War 1940
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Now carve the pattern on the surface in whatever manner you have designed -- in grooves suggesting the articulation of the leaves, in short grooves which may pass for additional leaves, or in a dozen ways which practise may help you to invent.
Wood-Carving Design and Workmanship George Jack 1894
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Eleanor sprang up and threw open, or rather threw back, one of the windows, for the lattice slid in grooves instead of hanging on hinges.
The Old Helmet 1864
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I lightly fingered the weapon’s trigger, caressing the thin grooves in the curved metal.
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