groove vs dado

groove and dado both are nouns.

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

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

groove: 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)
dado: a rectangular groove cut into a board so that another piece can fit into it

Other hyponyms of groove include flute, fluting, quirk, rabbet, rebate, track, rut, stria, striation, washout.

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

Other hyponyms of groove include mill.

groove (noun)	dado (noun)
a settled and monotonous routine that is hard to escape	panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is finished differently from the rest of the wall
(anatomy) any furrow or channel on a bodily structure or part	a rectangular groove cut into a board so that another piece can fit into it
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 section of a pedestal between the base and the surbase

groove (verb)	dado (verb)
hollow out in the form of a furrow or groove	cut a dado into or fit into a dado
make a groove in, or provide with a groove	provide with a dado