Crossword clues for grok
grok
- Totally get, in sci-fi
- Understand, in sci-fi slang
- Understand, in sci-fi
- Understand, according to Robert Heinlein
- Understand viscerally
- Understand intuitively, informally
- Totally get, in sci-fi slang
- Totally comprehend
- Thoroughly understand, in slang
- Really get
- Grasp, informally
- Comprehend, informally
- Comprehend or understand
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.
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).
Wikipedia
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 empathize or communicate sympathetically (with); also, to experience enjoyment", Heinlein's concept is far more nuanced, with critic Ishvan Csicsery-Ronay Jr. observing that "the book's major theme can be seen as an extended definition of the term." The concept of grok garnered significant critical scrutiny in the years after the book's initial publication. The term and aspects of the underlying concept have become part of communities as diverse as polyamory (in particular the Church of All Worlds) and computer science.
Grok is a word coined by Robert Heinlein meaning 'to know intimately'.
Grok may also refer to:
- Grok (web framework)
- Grok, a programming language created by Ric Holt
- Grok Magazine
- Grok Knowledge Base at Louisiana State University
- Grok Learning, a platform for learning programming languages
- OpenGrok, a source code search and cross reference engine
Grok is an open-source web framework based on Zope Toolkit technology. The project was started in 2006 by a number of Zope developers. Its core technologies (Martian, grokcore.component) are also used in other Zope-based projects.
The primary motive behind Grok is to make the Zope Toolkit technology more accessible and easier to use for newcomers and, at the same time, speed up application development, in accordance with the agile programming paradigm. To achieve this, Grok uses convention-over-configuration instead of using an explicit XML based configuration language (ZCML) as Zope Toolkit and BlueBream do. Grok uses Python code for component configuration, and has many implicit defaults and conventions. Grok is similar in feel to other Python Web frameworks such as TurboGears, Pylons and Django.
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.