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Meaning of ingroove | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. To form a groove in.
    transitive
  2. To connect or fit together by fitting into a groove; to slot in.

Examples

“The fine sand, the cylindrical stones of the gravel-bed, perhaps also the compact andd tough ice itself, polish the angular crystals, grind the polished surfaces, and so powerful is the pressure, by which these scratches are ingrooved, that even the quartz-veins of the rocks are not excempt from them.”
“I think that the girder rail, the ordinaray pattern of girder rail, an ingrooved rail —I have forgotten the technical term, but it is a rail in that shape—( witness draws diagram on piece of paper.)”
“The ornaments were ingrooved all over the dued blue shirtlet and are constituted of straight and curved grooves, transversal incisions, plinted sloped punctures on the calote of the armour, that are sporadically flaked ( T. I , 1a : T. II . 1a ).”
“So let the change which comes be free To ingroove itself with that, which flies”
“I have yet to observe the modes in which careful administration will strive to ingroove old with new, in law and order, and the civil acts and industries which make a nation's life honourable and lovely.”
“Now imagine—for greater perspicuity—the Microcosm as a nether wheel consisting of 360 interstices (degrees), the revolutions of which ingroove themselves with twin projections from the Great Mechanism, thus effecting contactual points of attraction that resolve themselves into channels through which specific influences from the Macrocosm descend or are drawn into the reservoirs of cognate effluences awaiting them in the minutum mundum, or lesser world.”
“While it cannot be denied that many tales have premeated from one nation to another, this will by no means account for the similarities of myths among two nations or more, in whose language and customs these myths are so deeply embedded and ingrooved that we should have to say the language too was borrowed.”
“The rake is built of a set of up to 24 individual subminiature probes ingrooved in the thickness of a printed circuit board.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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