dig vs groove

dig and groove both are nouns.

dig and groove both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
dig	Yes	No	Yes	No
groove	Yes	No	Yes	No

As verbs, groove is a hyponym of dig; that is, groove is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than dig:

dig: turn up, loosen, or remove earth
groove: hollow out in the form of a furrow or groove

Other hyponyms of dig include furrow, rut, root, rootle, rout, spade, shovel, trowel, burrow, tunnel.

dig (noun)	groove (noun)
the act of digging	a settled and monotonous routine that is hard to escape
the act of touching someone suddenly with your finger or elbow	(anatomy) any furrow or channel on a bodily structure or part
a small gouge (as in the cover of a book)	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)
an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect
the site of an archeological exploration

dig (verb)	groove (verb)
get the meaning of something	hollow out in the form of a furrow or groove
turn up, loosen, or remove earth	make a groove in, or provide with a groove
create by digging
remove the inner part or the core of
poke or thrust abruptly
thrust down or into
remove, harvest, or recover by digging
work hard

Difference between dig and groove

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