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Understand, informally
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grok
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"to understand empathically," 1961, arbitrary formation by U.S. science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988) in his book "Stranger in a Strange Land." In popular use 1960s; perhaps obsolete now except in internet technology circles.
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Grok is a word coined by Robert A. Heinlein for his 1961 science-fiction novel Stranger in a Strange Land . While the Oxford English Dictionary summarizes the meaning of grok as "to understand intuitively or by empathy, to establish rapport with" and "to ...
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive slang English) to understand (something) intuitively 2 to know (something) without having to think intellectually (such as knowing the number of objects in a collection without needing to count them: see subitize).
Usage examples of grok.
Little Ivan it was, anxiously searching the back-alley bars, who found Buffo still on his feet, though wavering, and led him back to Clown Alley, there to settle him on an upturned stool before a rectangle of cracked mirrors, where Buffo flailed about, wriggled, moaned and struggled to prevent Grik and Grok repairing the ravages his debauch had made upon his make-up.
But I keep hittin’ software glitches, ROM blocs, clapes I just couldn’t grok!
He was still grokking it, trying at every opportunity to grok its fullness.
But, Jill, if a thing is sinful on Sunday, it is sinful on Friday-at least it groks that way to an outsider, myself .
Believe me, dear, he could, But he groks that she does not think of them as belonging to her.
He's groks mostly that they're a wrongness that keeps people apart-and get in the way of letting love cause them to grow closer.
I won't talk that way about your baby- Aunt Patty is a lady, and groks that I'm not.
We need strong men for that-'sin' is hardly ever concerned with a real wrongness but sin is what the sinner groks as sin-and when you grok it with him, it can be very disturbing.
Thou art God and I am God and all that groks is God, and I am all that I have ever been or seen or felt or experienced.
Thou art God, I am God, he is God~l that groks Mike is a man along with the rest of us .
But, Jill, if a thing is sinful on Sunday, it is sinful on Friday - at least it groks that way to an outsider, myself .
He’s groks mostly that they’re a wrongness that keeps people apart - and get in the way of letting love cause them to grow closer.
I won’t talk that way about your baby - Aunt Patty is a lady, and groks that I’m not.
Thou art God, I am God, he is God - l that groks Mike is a man along with the rest of us .
We need strong men for that - ‘sin’ is hardly ever concerned with a real wrongness but sin is what the sinner groks as sin - and when you grok it with him, it can be very disturbing.