Groove vs. Ridge

A long narrow furrow or channel.

A long narrow upper section or crest

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

A long, narrow, elevated section of the earth's surface, such as a chain of hills or mountains or the divide between adjacent valleys.

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

A long mountain range on the ocean floor.

(Informal) A settled routine

A narrow, elongated zone of relatively high atmospheric pressure. Also called wedge.

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

A long, narrow, or crested part of the body

A very pleasurable experience.

The horizontal line formed by the juncture of two sloping planes, especially the line formed by the surfaces at the top of a roof.

To cut a groove or grooves in.

A narrow, raised strip, as in cloth or on plowed ground.

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

To mark with, form into, or provide with a ridge or ridges.

To take great pleasure or satisfaction; enjoy oneself

To form a ridge or ridges.

To be affected with pleasurable excitement.

(anatomy) The back of any animal; especially the upper or projecting part of the back of a quadruped.

To react or interact harmoniously.

Any extended protuberance; a projecting line or strip.

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.

The line along which two sloping surfaces meet which diverge towards the ground.

A fixed routine.

The highest point on a roof, represented by a horizontal line where two roof areas intersect, running the length of the area.

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

(fortifications) The highest portion of the glacis proceeding from the salient angle of the covered way.

(music) A pronounced, enjoyable rhythm.

A chain of mountains.

A good feeling (often as in the groove).

A chain of hills.

(mining) A shaft or excavation.

(oceanography) A long narrow elevation on an ocean bottom.

(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)

(meteorology) An elongated region of high atmospheric pressure.

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

(transitive) To form into a ridge

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

(intransitive) To extend in ridges

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.

The back, or top of the back; a crest.

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

A range of hills or mountains, or the upper part of such a range; any extended elevation between valleys.

A shaft or excavation.

A raised line or strip, as of ground thrown up by a plow or left between furrows or ditches, or as on the surface of metal, cloth, or bone, etc.

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

The intersection of two surface forming a salient angle, especially the angle at the top between the opposite slopes or sides of a roof or a vault.

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)

The highest portion of the glacis proceeding from the salient angle of the covered way.

A settled and monotonous routine that is hard to escape;

To form a ridge of; to furnish with a ridge or ridges; to make into a ridge or ridges.

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

To form into ridges with the plow, as land.

Make a groove in, or provide with a groove;

To wrinkle.

Hollow out in the form of a furrow or groove;

A long narrow natural elevation or striation

Any long raised strip

A long narrow range of hills

Any long raised border or margin of a bone or tooth or membrane

A beam laid along the ridge of a roof; provides attachment for upper end of rafters

Extend in ridges;

Plough alternate strips by throwing the furrow onto an unploughed strip

Throw soil toward (a crop row) from both sides;

Spade into alternate ridges and troughs;

Form into a ridge