grok

(grŏk)

tr.v. grok·ked, grok·king, groks Slang

To understand profoundly through intuition or empathy.

[Coined by Robert A. Heinlein in his Stranger in a Strange Land.]

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grok

(ɡrɒk)

to understand completely and intuitively

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grok

(grɒk)
v. grokked, grok•king. Slang. v.t.

1. to understand thoroughly and intuitively.

v.i.

2. to communicate sympathetically.

[coined by Robert A. Heinlein in the science-fiction novel Stranger in a Strange Land (1961)]

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Verb

grok - get the meaning of something; "Do you comprehend the meaning of this letter?"

apprehend, comprehend, get the picture, savvy, grasp, compass, dig

understand - know and comprehend the nature or meaning of; "She did not understand her husband"; "I understand what she means"

figure - understand; "He didn't figure her"

catch on, cotton on, get it, get onto, get wise, twig, latch on, tumble - understand, usually after some initial difficulty; "She didn't know what her classmates were plotting but finally caught on"

intuit - know or grasp by intuition or feeling

digest - arrange and integrate in the mind; "I cannot digest all this information"

Translations

groccare

догнать грокать грокнуть

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(7.) On science fiction as a resource for hackers, see Bruce Sterling, The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier (New York: Bantam Books, 1992); Douglas Thomas, Hacker Culture (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002), 1923; Rob Latham, Consuming Youth: Vampires, Cyborgs, and the Culture of Consumption (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002); Stephen Kline, Nick Dyer- Witheford, and Greig De Peuter, Digital Play: The Interaction of Technology, Culture, and Marketing (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2003); Vincenzo D'Andrea, Stefano De Paoli, and Maurizio Teli, "Open to Grok: How Do Hackers' Practices Produce Hackers?" in Open Source Development, Communities and Quality, ed.

Hacking the Scientific Imagination

Now one innovative fellow, Grok, got to thinking about a new way to catch fish, and, over the course of much mental effort, he developed an idea for a contraption akin to what we have come to call a net.

A parable for Thomas Piketty

Seconds after the "grok, grok" cries, the large bird, black as night, soared across the leaden skies.

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The finalists were Golden Environmental Mat Services, which is launching its SmartMat solution, including RFID, to locate and manage wooden mats used by the oil and gas industry, and to track each mat's location and deployment; U Grok It, which sells a low-cost handheld ultrahigh-frequency (UHF) Gen 2 RFID reader that works with iOS, Android devices and Microsoft Windows 8 tablets; Intellifi, which offers a product suite consisting of UHF RFID hardware products (Smartspots) and a cloud-based service (BRAIN); and Invisi-Tag, which provides a complete asset-tracking RFID system for landscaping contractors and other types of service providers.

Golden Environmental Mat Services wins RFID Journal Startup Challenge

Mindful pilots look for mods, check for placards, read the documentation and do their best to grok what any and all modifications will mean to aircraft performance.

Logbooks aren't the whole story

"The proofs can be explained and taught and respected from a distance, yet there still remains the fact that you either grok it or you don't, and that's that" (p.

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